Atul is Senior Director of Continuous Identity Strategy at CrowdStrike, which he joined following its acquisition of SGNL, where he served as CTO. Named in the Okta “Identity 25”, Atul is a federated identity pioneer and the inventor of the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP). He was previously at Google, where his seminal blog post kicked-off the industry-wide movement that culminated in the OpenID Foundation’s Shared Signals working group, which he co-chairs. He is also a co-chair of the OpenID AuthZen and AI Identity Management groups. His leadership in developing and promoting SSF and CAEP, the critical zero-trust standards, has been influential in their widespread adoption. Apple, Okta, Cisco and others have announced support for these standards. Previously, Atul was a co-founder and the CEO of Trustgenix, a federated identity pioneer that was acquired by HP. Trustgenix contributed to the development of federated identity standards such as SAML 2.0 and the Liberty Alliance Framework.