George Hulme

Founded in 1959, King of Prussia, PA-based AmeriGas has 1.7 million customers and 1,900 distributors in all 50 states. Since its founding, and with $31 billion in annual sales, AmeriGas has grown to become the nation's largest propane distributor. With roughly 10,000 employees and contractors at its seasonal peak, AmeriGas had considerable identity and access management challenges. To better manage...

For more than 86 years Caterpillar dealer Finning has delivered the unrivaled service its customers have come to expect. Founded in 1933, by 1965 Finning employed 1,000 and reached annual revenues of $78 million. Today, Finning employs more than 13,000 and attained 2017 revenues of $6.2 billion. Today, as the world’s largest Caterpillar dealer, Finning sells and rents Caterpillar equipment...

We recently caught up with Prudential's Guillermo Guerra,  Group Chief Information Security Officer, to discuss security and identity management. Guillermo began his career at Prudential as chief information security officer at Jackson National Life Insurance Company, or Jackson, a Prudential subsidiary. In this conversation, we discuss Guillermo’s fascinating start to his information-security and identity-management career and his current views on...

One thing is certain, as enterprises continue transforming themselves digitally, they are making lives easier for their customers, staff, and partners – but the underlying technology that is making all of that digital transformation magic possible is growing more and more complex. Consider this: as organizations bring on more and more cloud systems, while also maintaining legacy on-premises systems going...

It’s time security and identity teams stop thinking so much about identity. It’s time organizations stop having to think so much about access rights and privileges, provisioning workflows, passwords, access certifications, and all that's associated with them. It's all hard, often repetitive, work, and there are other things the organization needs to be concerned about. No, I’m not saying that...

When it comes to identity management and governance conversations, the focus often falls on security, risk reduction, and regulatory compliance. These are all great reasons to embark on an identity management program, but what is often overlooked when it comes to identity governance is how it can enable businesses to be better businesses and effectively transform themselves digitally. During the...

We caught up with Paul Trulove, chief product officer at SailPoint, fresh after his keynote address, The Future of Identity Governance. We thought it would be a good idea to get a little more color on what SailPoint means by SailPoint Predictive Identity, what it means for customers and what it means the future of identity governance.   You provided a lot of interesting use cases during your...

The job of identity governance is never done. Whether it's improving the efficiencies of the existing program, adopting new technologies such as artificial intelligence to long-held challenges such as ensuring users have the right access levels or learning how identity management can help organizations to more effectively utilize new technologies. At Navigate 2019, the presentations and the attendees tackled all...

The City of Boston is the most populous city in New England and the economic and cultural force, 8.2 million strong, of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. Being the center of such a large and vibrant metropolitan area, there is a substantial need for effective government. Government that provides the services necessary for such a city to thrive: schools, public...

In March 2019, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Greg McCarthy’s appointment as the city’s first chief information security officer (CISO). McCarthy will lead the cybersecurity team within the Department of Innovation and Technology. In this interview, we discuss his career, how the role of cybersecurity has changed within the city, and how security in the public sector can be...