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Jon Lehtinen
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Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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Evaluating the business structure and account schema

As part of this exercise and others in the following chapters, we will be creating several user accounts inside a directory that we can use with various AWS services. Let's take a look at a sample account and its available attributes:

Table 8.1 – One user record from the organization

We've built this organization to include several users with diverse attribute values in order to set up several example scenarios that we are likely to see in an enterprise use case. To help us stay focused on how we are solving identity challenges on AWS rather than concerning ourselves with needing to remember names, each employee record is named for their job title. Furthermore, each account will track to a specific AWS use case or environment. We will dive into the details of the AWS organizational design in the next section. For now, let's look at all the accounts inside of our directory and a few key...

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Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800562288

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Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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