About

Garret Grajek is a highly experienced and certified security engineer with nearly 30 years of experience in information security. He is widely recognized in the industry as a security visionary, particularly in identity, access, and authentication matters. Garret has worked on security projects for major commercial accounts, including Dish Networks, Office Depot, TicketMaster, Oppenheimer, E*Trade, and HP.com, as well as public sector accounts such as GSA, U.S. Navy, EPA, and USUHS. Garret started his career as a security programmer at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Tandem Computers, before moving on to distinguish himself in field security work for RSA, Netegrity, and Cisco. He later founded and created SecureAuth IdP, a 2-Factor/SSO offering. Garret is fully versed in all modern concepts in IT architecture, including mobile deployments, cloud deployment, hybrid environments, federation authentication, 2-factor authentication, X.509 integration, and SSO. Garret's competencies include expert security architecture and implementation, enterprise-grade software development, outstanding leadership abilities, and adeptness at developing effective security policies and procedures, project documentation and milestones, and technical/business specifications. He is also a visionary and known thought leader in the security software industry. Garret's tools include SecureAuth IDP (founder/inventor), Tivoli Identity Manager, CA Siteminder, Cisco VPN, Juniper VPN, Citrix, LDAP Directories, Identity in the Cloud, RSA SecureID, Actividentity, and X.509 certificates. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer at YouAttest, an innovator in the Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) market that offers the first cloud-based API integrated IGA audit automation and reporting services for Okta's Identity Cloud and other resources. Garret's past companies include Cylance Inc., where he served as the V.P. of Identity, researching possibilities and potentials of identity (authentication, assertion, federation, and affirmation) with Machine Learning as a foundation. He also served as CEO of OSC Technologies LLC, where he led a team of exceptional engineers, crafting custom scalable solutions for worldwide deployment. The team's focus was on Java solutions (mobile, web, and cloud), .NET programs (design-to-deployment), IdM (SSO and provisioning) custom projects, crypto programming (signing, encryption, and authentication), and proto-type coding (for start-ups and