Resources

Welcome to 'What the SaaS?!', the podcast for B2B SaaS leaders navigating the path to enterprise-readiness. Every growing B2B company eventually hits a wall. You've found product-market fit, but suddenly your biggest deals are getting stuck in security reviews. Customers are asking for things like SAML, SCIM, and delegated admin—and you realize your simple login box has become a roadblock to growth. In this series, we're going to explore how to turn that roadblock into a revenue engine. Today, we're laying the foundation for Tenancy-as-a-Service, which is built on three pillars: a scalable multi-tenant architecture, self-service enterprise configuration, and developer-first admin experiences.

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AI agents are moving from demo to production. In this AI-generated, human-edited episode, we unpack what autonomous agents mean for identity security and what teams need to put in place to keep data and actions under control. We talked about: - Why human-centric IAM breaks for non-human agents - How agent identity differs from human identity - How to call APIs on a user’s behalf with token vaulting - How to handle long-running, async authorization - How to enforce least-privilege RAG and what MCP means for access control Prefer to read? See how to secure agents in the [Auth0 whitepaper](https://auth0.com/resources/whitepapers/securing-ai-agents-the-new-identity-challenge).

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In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses face unprecedented challenges: fierce competition, soaring customer expectations, escalating cyber threats, and the transformative rise of AI. How do you balance innovation with unwavering trust and security? Our Customer Identity Trends Report 2025 is your essential guide. Get the executive summary in a concise 10-minute audio format, revealing key insights on: - The Evolving Threat Landscape: Understand the scale and sophistication of attacks targeting customer identities. - AI Meets Customer Identity: Discover the critical trust gap in AI adoption and how to bridge it securely. - Customer Experience & Trust:** Learn what truly matters to customers and how seamless identity journeys drive loyalty. Prefer to read? You can also [download the full report here](https://auth0.com/customer-identity-trends-report).

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In this episode, Dr. Daniel Fett, expert cryptographer, returns to the show to discuss the landscape of privacy-preserving measures (such as selective disclosure, zero-knowledge proofs or ZKP, etc.) that are emerging to augment existing technologies and enable new scenarios. The discussion gets very concrete when Daniel describes selective disclosure JWT, or SD-JWT, a new IETF specification he is coauthoring that offers a simple and easy-to-adopt approach to produce JWTs capable of supporting selective disclosure. Here at Identity, Unlocked, we are huge fans of this new specification, and we hope this episode will help you get started!

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In this episode, Prateek, Paul, and Joni bring us back to a time in which single sign-on across domains on the web was a brand new problem. With the confidence (and the passion!) of the people who were there and made things happen, the guests take Vittorio and the listeners on a whirlwind tour touching on the technical and political challenges they had to overcome to bring SAML to life and make it the ubiquitous success it is today. From the basics of how the SAML protocol works to the entities and standard bodies that developed it, the discussion eventually reaches modern times and concludes on how in a world where old and new standards coexist, OpenID Connect picked up the innovation torch from SAML.

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On the second episode of the 4th season of Identity Unlocked, host Vittorio Bertocci, Principal Architect at Auth0, is joined by Stuart Kwan, Partner Product Manager in the Azure Active Directory team. He joins the show to discuss Windows CardSpace, how it ignited the user centric identity revolution and how it influenced so much of what we do today, despite failing to be adopted. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet, Stuart at @stuartkwan, and Auth0 at @auth0.

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On the first episode of the 4th season of Identity Unlocked, host Vittorio Bertocci, Principal Architect at Auth0, is joined by Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director & CMO, FIDO Alliance, and Tim Cappalli, Digital Identity Standards Architect at Microsoft. Vittorio, Andrew and Tim discuss the new FIDO multi device credentials, commonly known as passkey, a new FIDO feature that are an alternative to passwords in consumer grade applications.

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In this episode, we discussed the mobile driving license, an ISO standard that has the potential to have a direct impact on the daily life of everyone. And to do that, I enlisted my old friend Andrew Hughes, director of Identity Standards and Pink Identity historical figure in the identity industry

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In this episode we talk with Mike Jones about OpenID Connect. He is an editor of the OpenID Connect specifications, several IETF OAuth specifications, including JSON Web Token (JWT), the IETF JOSE (JSON cryptography) and Security Events specifications, the FIDO 2.0 specification, and W3C Web Authentication.

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In this episode, we talk with Kristina Yasuda and Oliver Terbu about Decentralized Identity and OpenID Connect

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In this episode of Identity, Unlocked, principal architect at Auth0 and podcast host Vittorio Bertocci discusses authorization with David Brossard. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet or Auth0 at @auth0. Music composed and performed by Marcelo Woloski.

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Today’s episode of Identity. Unlocked is focused on the System for Cross Domain Identity Management, better known as SCIM. Principal Architect at Auth0 and podcast host, Vittorio Bertocci, is joined by guest Phil Hunt and returning guest Pamela Dingle. Phil is the Founder of Independent Identity and Editor of SCIM specifications. Pamela is the Director of Identity Standards at Microsoft. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet, or Auth0 at @auth0

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In this bonus episode of Identity. Unlocked, Principal Architect at Auth0 and podcast host, Vittorio Bertocci, is at Identiverse. He is joined by Ian Glazer, Senior Vice President of Identity at Salesforce.

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Identity, Unlocked is the podcast that discusses identity specs and trends from a developer perspective. Identity, Unlocked is powered by Auth0. In this episode, we focus on the Global Assured Identity Network, abbreviated GAIN, a proposal from 150 identity experts that was presented inform of white paper at the European Identity Conference in Munich. Today, we are chatting with two of those 150 authors, Nat Sakimura, chairman of the OpenID Foundation, and we welcome a returning guest, Torsten Lodderstedt, CTO of yes.com.

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In this episode of Identity, Unlocked, the interviewer becomes the interviewee. Our usual host and Auth0's Principal Architect, Vittorio Bertocci, is interviewed by Matias Woloski, CTO and Co-Founder of Auth0. During this discussion, they focus on the JWT Profile for OAuth 2 Access Tokens. Season 2 of Identity, Unlocked is sponsored by the OpenID Foundation Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet, or Auth0 at @auth0.

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In this episode of Identity, Unlocked, principal architect at Auth0 and podcast host, Vittorio Bertocci, interviews Sam Goto, Software Engineer working on Google Chrome and George Fletcher, Identity Standards Architect at Verizon. Sam and George will be focusing on how browser vendors are working to offer better privacy guarantees to users and in doing so, they are removing some features and adding new ones. Season 2 of Identity, Unlocked is sponsored by the OpenID Foundation Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet, or Auth0 at @auth0.

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In this episode of Identity, Unlocked, principal architect at Auth0 and podcast host Vittorio Bertocci focuses on OpenID foundation’s FastFederation (FastFed) group. Vittorio chats with Darin McAdams, a software engineer at AWS and the author of FastFed’s specifications, to explore how FastFed is looking to shorten the time it takes to join organizations into a federation. Season 2 of Identity, Unlocked is sponsored by the OpenID Foundation. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community!

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In this episode of Identity. Unlocked, principal architect at Auth0 and podcast host, Vittorio Bertocci, focuses on the work of the eKYC and Identity Assurance Working Group in the OpenID Foundation. In order to explore the group and its work, Vittorio interviews Mark Haine, Director at considrd.consulting, and one of the Chairs of the eKYC and Identity Assurance Working Group. Season 2 of Identity, Unlocked is sponsored by the OpenID Foundation. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet, Mark on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-haine/), or Auth0 at @auth0.

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In this episode we focus on the work of a shared signal and event working group in the OpenID Foundation, and in particular, on the continuous access evaluation protocol (CAEP). Season 2 of Identity, Unlocked is sponsored by the OpenID Foundation. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet, Tim at @timcappalli, Atul at @googatul or Auth0 at @auth0.

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In this episode of Identity. Unlocked, principal architect at Auth0 and podcast host, Vittorio Bertocci, interviews Filip Skoan. Filip is a Senior Engineer II at Auth0. The interview centers on RAR, PAR, and JAR. Season 2 of Identity, Unlocked is sponsored by the OpenID Foundation. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a five-star review and share Identity, Unlocked with your community! You can connect with Vittorio on Twitter at @vibronet, Filip at @_panva, or Auth0 at @auth0.

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