Ep. #49, Redefining Access Control with Omri Gazitt of Aserto

In episode 49 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Omri Gazitt, CEO and Co-Founder of Aserto. They began with a dive into Omri’s early beginnings in enterprise software, including his time at Microsoft working on the .NET framework. This sparks a discussion into the challenges of building interoperable software and how the software buying motion changed during the 1990s.

The conversation moves to Omri’s time running the XML team at Microsoft, and the lessons learned that would lead to the creation of Azure, including building the team and bridging the world of enterprise for what would inevitably become known as the Cloud. Finally, Omri unpacks what led him to found Aserto, a solution to enterprise-grade access control.