| Ketan Kapadia is a veteran of the identity and access management industry with over 25 years of experience driving innovation at the intersection of security, automation, and trust. A serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple identity companies, Ketan has spent his career redefining how organizations protect access, from early authentication frameworks to today’s decentralized and AI-driven security models.
As an advocate for decentralized authentication, ephemeral, just-in-time (JIT) access and Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP), Ketan helps enterprises eliminate static credentials and move toward dynamic, policy-based authorization built for cloud, automation, and AI-native environments. His current work explores the convergence of Agentic AI and identity, ensuring autonomous systems and digital agents operate within real-time, intent-aware trust boundaries. Ketan’s thought leadership challenges legacy assumptions about vaults, proxies, and passwords, emphasizing identity as the new control plane for both human and non-human actors. Through is thought leadership and advisory work, he is shaping the future of authentication and Agentic Identity Security, empowering organizations to achieve Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) through contextual, ephemeral, and AI-driven access decisions. |
