Zero trust is more than a technology framework — it's a cultural shift. In this opening keynote, Jordan Reyes shares the leadership strategies, organizational change management tactics, and hard-won lessons from Meridian's enterprise-wide zero trust transformation. Attendees will walk away with a practical blueprint for aligning executive stakeholders, security teams, and end users around a unified identity-first security posture.

This hands-on workshop dives deep into the architecture of a resilient workforce identity program. Priya Nair walks through real-world deployment patterns for Okta Single Sign-On, adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication, and lifecycle management at scale. Participants will explore common friction points in enterprise rollouts and leave with configuration checklists and policy templates ready for immediate use.

As phishing-resistant authentication becomes more widely adopted, threat actors are evolving their tactics. Marcus Webb presents new research on adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks, MFA fatigue campaigns, and session token hijacking — with live demonstrations of how these techniques operate in the wild. The session closes with a prioritized set of defensive controls and Okta platform configurations that significantly reduce exposure to these emerging attack vectors.