Valentin Hristov and Ivan Pepelov visited one of the most important events of the year — the One Identity Partner Group, now travelling as One Identity on the Road. It is a unique get-together with the vendor and the partner community: a chance to catch up, share what we are building, and hear where the product is heading.
This time the host was Deutsche Telekom in Bonn — a nice occasion to visit the town that used to be the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1990. Getting there was less charming. There were no matching flights to Cologne/Bonn, so we flew to Frankfurt and took the train. With some significant delays, of course. Yes, Ivan remembered his time in Germany — and is clearly not missing the trains.
In the evening the famous get-together took place. Over a beer we talked — the kind of conversation that shapes not only the professional bond but also the personal one. That is what this event has always been about.
The day itself started in a slightly unusual way. This is the first time the CEO of One Identity came personally all the way from the US to the Partner Group. That says a lot about the significance of the German-speaking market — and about the willingness of One Identity to listen to partners and customers from the region.
We had three highlights.
Stephan Hausmann delivered a very strong presentation on non-human identities, with a clear accent on cybersecurity. Walking through the NHI threats listed by OWASP, he showed how the One Identity solutions address them — and, as we like to say at IDVKM, how identity actually contributes to security.
Rob Byrne added the regulatory perspective. As we all know, compliance is the second part of the holy trinity of identity-management project drivers — the first being cybersecurity and the last one business automation. He posed the unfortunately common question: “If we are compliant, why are we breached?” That opened a discussion about how the latter can still happen.
But the best was yet to come. The new format of speed meetings gave us a unique opportunity to speak directly with people from the vendor, get feedback and agree follow-ups on our additions to the One Identity Manager portfolio — Identity Profiling, the MCP Server for OIM, and the Identity Security Platform.
There was a fun part as well. At the booth we had some nice pictures taken as the guardians of identity security.
What matters most at events like this are the people — partners, customers and the One Identity team. Bonn reminded us once again why we keep coming back.
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