Rakesh is currently a Specialist Director at KPMG specializing in Identity, Authentication, Authorization, Security and Privacy. Prior to KPMG, he has held senior security architect roles at Sun, Bank of America, Amgen, and several security consulting companies. In the recent past, Rakesh has authored 3 books and several papers on Identity and Security, has 36 patents in IAM and has delivered a dozen or so keynotes on several IAM topics. He has participated in a number of industry standardization initiatives including Kantara, Liberty Alliance and OASIS.