Blog | Uzi Ashkenazi

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August 9, 2026

The AWS Security Practitioner's Guide to Ping Identity

PingOne, PingFederate, PingAccess, PingDirectory, PingAuthorize: five products doing jobs an AWS security practitioner already has names for.

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August 9, 2026

Cloud Security

Securing the Enterprise on AWS: A Practitioner's Foundation

AWS draws a clean line between what it secures and what you secure. Everything on your side of that line turns out to be the same control, wearing four different names.

A steel truss with converging beams meeting at a single point — the shape of a trust handoff

July 19, 2026

Identity Architecture

You've Been Doing Federation Since Day One

If you've ever assumed an IAM role, you've done federation. The protocol primitives you already use in AWS are the same ones that broker identity across vendors.

A concrete corridor cut by triangular shafts of light — the boundary isn't the walls, it's wherever the light lands

July 19, 2026

Identity Architecture

Zero Trust Solved the Human Problem. Machines Are Where the Work Is.

Zero Trust is sold as a network strategy. That framing buries the lede. The control point moved to the identity layer, and most of those identities aren't human.

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May 17, 2026

Workflow

Claude Code on the Go

Claude Code is a long-running interactive process. Mobile networks are not. The fix is a persistent shell on a VPS, tmux, and Blink Shell on iOS.

Modular building facade — repeated identical units, a metaphor for single-purpose specialist agents

June 7, 2026

Craft

Building Identity Security Products as a Solo Operator

Building a security product while learning the domain and working full time is a coordination problem, not a time problem. Here is the multi-agent pipeline that solves it.