Jim McDonald
- Co-hosts Identity at the Center, the weekly IAM practitioner podcast, with Jeff Steadman
- Working IAM consultant, director at RSM US
Bio
Jim McDonald is a director at RSM US and co-hosts Identity at the Center with Jeff Steadman. The show alternates between the two hosts working through a topic and interviews with practitioners, vendor leaders, and analysts.
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Where their work shows up
The podcast has become a working record of how identity programmes actually run: MFA rollout patterns and where they stall, ITDR maturity in organizations that have not finished the basics, and how vendor selection really gets decided. It is also one of the main routes newcomers use to learn the vocabulary of the field. See the interviews and how to get an IAM job.
Podcasts
Hosts Identity at the Center.
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