Abrom Douglas III
Cybersecurity & Identity Professional
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Abrom Douglas is currently a Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS and specializes in Identity and Access Management (IAM). Abrom is a technology professional with nearly 19 years of hands-on experience in the software engineering and cybersecurity space. He has dedicated the past 14 years to delivering secure and scalable IAM solutions across the financial services, consumer cyclical, professional services, and technology industries. Including such identity services as Customer Identity (CIAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA). Abrom has both built and led diverse global teams and has held several individual contributor roles, such as a security analyst, solutions architect, and security engineer.
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API authorization with Amazon Cognito and Amazon Verified Permissions
In this builders’ session, gain hands-on experience with modern authorization in a microservices-based architecture on AWS. Learn how to externalize and customize authentication with Amazon Cognito, apply fine-grained authorization with policy-based access controls using Amazon Verified Permissions, and integrate with APIs that are protected by Amazon API Gateway.
https://reinvent.awsevents.com
Dec 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024
The Safe Room | Securing the Front Door: Amazon Cognito for TDIR
Security is more than just keeping the bad guys out; it’s about making sure the right people get in—safely, securely, and without a hitch. In this session we'll provide an overview of Amazon Cognito and how it fits into your security strategy. We'll cover some of the latest features that can help you detect and respond to threats in real-time. A live demo will also be provided to showcase how to handle risk-based authentication scenarios.
https://abrom.xyz/saferoom.html
Aug 2024 | AWS The Safe Room
Unlocking Security: Embracing Passwordless Authentication and Zero Trust
Passwords are often the weakest link in cybersecurity, with over 80% of data breaches involving stolen or weak passwords.
In this talk, we'll explore the future of authentication with technologies like FIDO2, WebAuthn, and Passkeys, diving into how they enhance security by eliminating the need for traditional passwords. We'll also touch on the essentials of a zero trust architecture and its intersection with identity and authentication strategies- ensuring robust protection for your critical workloads, data, and infrastructure.
https://www.bsidesstpete.com/
September 2024 | BSides St. Pete
Managing customer identities with Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito helps organizations with several use cases, from managing B2C and B2B2C identities to securing machine-to-machine authentication. This lightning talk covers how to manage customer identities with Amazon Cognito and shares various reference architectures along with corresponding demos.
https://reinforce.awsevents.com/
June 2024 | AWS re:Inforce 2024
Implementing Passwordless authentication for your applications on AWS with Amazon Cognito
Bring your laptop to this hands-on session and learn how to add FIDO2 authentication to your applications on AWS. Amazon Cognito helps you implement secure, frictionless customer identity and access management that scales. We’ll guide you in deploying a sample application and you’ll sign in with FIDO2 using security keys and your own devices. You’ll see passkeys in action, and learn configuration choices Relying Parties must make. Come dive into the future of secure authentication with us!
https://abrom.xyz/authenticate2023.html
October 2023 | Authenticate 2023
The intersection of passwordless and zero trust
According to current studies, over 80% of data breaches involve stolen or weak passwords. In this talk we’ll dive a little deeper into the various identity related components of a zero trust architecture. We’ll also discuss the latest buzzwords such as FIDO2, WebAuthn, and Passkeys, and how these can help you achieve higher levels of authentication assurance to protect critical workloads, data, and infrastructure.
https://abrom.xyz/passwordless-zt.pdf
Sept 2023 | Infragard Tampa Bay Alliance Meeting
Multi-tenant SaaS identity with Amazon Cognito user pools
Identity management is foundational to your SaaS product offerings. Amazon Cognito provides secure, frictionless customer identity and access management (CIAM) that scales. In this builders’ session, learn about patterns for integrating Amazon Cognito into your SaaS applications, both single- and multi-tenanted, as well as tips for how you can scale your identity architecture as your product suite grows.
https://abrom.xyz/reInforce2023-IAM357.pdf
June 2023 | AWS re:Inforce 2023
Using passwordless authentication with Amazon Cognito and WebAuthn
In recent years, passwordless authentication has been on the rise. The FIDO Alliance, a first-mover for enabling passwordless in 2009, is an open industry association whose stated mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that “help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords.” This builders’ session allows participants to learn about and follow the steps to implement a passwordless authentication experience on a web or mobile application using Amazon Cognito.
https://abrom.xyz/reInforce2023-IAM355.pdf
June 2023 | AWS re:Inforce 2023
Deloitte's Innovation Bootcamp | Cryptocurrency
Led discussion and presented a deep dive session on the past, present, and future of blockchain and cryptocurrency.
March 2022 | Innovation Bootcamp
Zero Trust Strategies to Meet Federal Mandates and Mission Objectives
Special guest speaker for Saviynt webinar to discuss Zero Trust strategies. During this webinar, attendees learned how to accelerate the path to a Zero Trust environment and heard how:
- Modernized Identity Governance and Administration can enable you to implement security frameworks and principles
- Guarding data with precision identity and access controls helps agencies reduce the surface area risk and improve user experience
- Saviynt can help you get to green in government-mandated assessments and audits with tips from identity experts
https://abrom.xyz/2021-zero-trust.html
June 17, 2021 | Saviynt Webinar
Deloitte's Innovation Bootcamp | Cybersecurity
Invited to present on Cybersecurity aspects of Identity & Access Management and the criticality of its various capabilities
October 2020 | Innovation Bootcamp
Cybersecurity & Identity Access Management
Invited to be a special guest on Deloitte's "The IT Factor" podcast discussing the critical role of Identity Governance & Administration
April 22, 2020 | The IT Factor Podcast
Abrom Douglas III
Cybersecurity & Identity Professional
Tampa, Florida, United States
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