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Published inOct 2021
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ISBN-139781800562288
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Jon Lehtinen
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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In this chapter, we brought our user's identity information into AWS so that it could be consumed by applications hosted on AWS. First, we considered how administrative and non-administrative identity use cases differ. Then, we examined several different solution architectures to solve the challenge of bringing user identity information into AWS. Finally, we built a solution that enabled AWS-deployed applications to access user information through our organization's authoritative sources. We did this by using AWS Directory Services and building a trust between our on-premises Active Directory and a Managed AD domain created within our AWS account.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to use AWS-native identity services, such as Amazon Cognito, to solve application identity use cases while still deferring to our external IDP as the authoritative source of user identity information.

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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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