Identity at the Center #333- Navigating Identity in the Automotive Industry with Andrew Cameron
Feb 24, 2025
Andrew Cameron, Technical Fellow in Identity and Access Management at General Motors, shares his decades-long IAM journey. He discusses passwordless adoption and passkeys, building scalable customer identity platforms and centralized profiles, the rise of car accounts and in-vehicle identity, handling complex B2B delegated admin, and how AI and edge performance shape mission-critical automotive identity.
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Identity Can't Be The Slow Link
- Identity must never be the slowest link for mission-critical vehicle actions like start or unlock.
- Achieving sub-second responses requires sophisticated distributed systems and edge-aware APIs.
Standards Created Momentum
- Standards like SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect created a shared language that enabled cross-organization identity integrations.
- Rapid vendor and platform adoption makes newer standards like passkeys accelerate enterprise uptake.
Over-Communicate Passwordless Rollouts
- Communicate heavily and choose between forced or voluntary rollouts for passwordless adoption.
- Plan crossboarding of apps, users, devices, and data; treat enterprise passwordless as a long transition, not a flip of a switch.