CXO Xchange Welcomes Descope & Entrust

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Customer Identity As A Business Enabler: Tips and Best Practices
Your customer identity sits at the core of your organization. Adding undue friction can lead to user churn, security risks can incur costs and impact trust, and identity silos can hamper customer visibility. The rising adoption of AI agents and MCP servers only heightens the importance of identity in the modern age. 

Having seen 100s of CIAM deployments, Descope Co-Founder Rishi Bhargava will share learnings and actionable tips on:

• How passwordless authentication impacts user conversion

• How to add security controls at the right time (and not every time)

• How adding identity guardrails can fuel secure AI / MCP adoption

Join this session to get learnings from customer, partner, and agentic identity implementations and see how your IAM stack can be an enabler for all business teams.

Rishi Bhargava | Co-Founder @ Descope
Rishi Bhargava is a co-founder at Descope, a drag & drop external IAM platform. In a career spanning over 20 years, Rishi has run product, strategy, go-to-market, and engineering for category-creating cybersecurity startups and large enterprises. Before Descope, Rishi served as VP of Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks which he joined via the acquisition of Demisto. Rishi was a co-founder at Demisto where, under his stewardship, the company created and later led a new “security orchestration” category within 3 years before being acquired. Prior to Demisto, Rishi was VP and GM of the Datacenter Group at Intel Security and launched multiple products at McAfee (acquired by Intel).