Do you agree with Okta CEO Todd McKinnon's vision that identity will become a "primary cloud"? Share your views in the comments.

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AVP IT, CTO, and Deputy CIO in Education4 years ago

I didn't see or read the comment to really understand the context.  But, if the idea is to provide Identity As A Service, or an Identity ecosystem that others can plug into, it's interesting.  Privacy and security are going to be the concern.  Clear is building an interesting ecosystem around their identity service.  We have primary "login providers" in Google and Facebook (and Apple joined the club recently) where applications don't have to build that functionality from scratch.  So, we have a few examples that could be precursors to what McKinnon might be envisioning?

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CIO in Education5 years ago

Interesting theory, even if from Okta’s CEO. Identity is the entry path to everything so there’s no reason to think this couldn’t happen.

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