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Annabelle Backman

Co-chair, OpenID Shared Signals working group · AWS · 14+ years in identity
Focus areas
Security Event TokensShared SignalsOAuthFederation
Notable work
  • Editor of RFC 8935 and RFC 8936, push and poll delivery for Security Event Tokens
  • Co-chair of the OpenID Shared Signals and Events working group
  • Co-author of the RISC profile and event-type specifications

Bio

Annabelle Backman is a principal security engineer on AWS Identity and co-chairs the OpenID Shared Signals and Events working group. She edited RFC 8935 and RFC 8936, the push and poll delivery mechanisms for Security Event Tokens, and co-authored the RISC profile and event-type specifications built on them.

Profile built from public IETF and OpenID Foundation records.

Where their work shows up

CAEP and RISC describe what one identity system should tell another when something changes. The delivery RFCs are the unglamorous layer that makes that actually work across organizations: how a transmitter and receiver establish a stream, how events are acknowledged, and what happens when a receiver is offline. Without agreed delivery, cross-domain signals stay a vendor feature. See refresh token abuse, session cookie theft, and the ITDR guide.

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