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Evan Gilman

SPIFFE and SPIRE maintainer, co-author of Zero Trust Networks · Independent · 10+ years in identity
Focus areas
Workload IdentitySPIFFEZero TrustService Mesh
Notable work
  • Maintainer of SPIRE, the reference implementation of SPIFFE
  • Co-author of Zero Trust Networks (O'Reilly)
  • Early engineer at Scytale, where SPIFFE and SPIRE were created

Bio

Evan Gilman is a maintainer of SPIRE, the reference implementation of SPIFFE, and co-wrote O'Reilly's Zero Trust Networks. He was an engineer at Scytale, where SPIFFE and SPIRE were created before moving to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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Human identity has a decade of standards. Workload identity had almost none until SPIFFE defined a universal identity document for a service and SPIRE worked out how to issue one without a secret to bootstrap from, attesting the workload through the platform it runs on instead. That is the foundation under service mesh authentication and most credible zero trust architecture. See what is machine identity, the SPIFFE and SPIRE profile, and the best machine identity for enterprises ranking.

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