Event: ISACA Q3 2025 Quarterly event - Zero Trust in Action: Dynamic, Fine-Grained Policies for Continuous Authorization
Speaker: Berret Terry - Senior Solutions Architect, StrongDM
Title: Zero Trust in Action: Dynamic, Fine-Grained Policies for Continuous Authorization
Topic: Dive deep into the heart of Zero Trust security as we tackle fine-grained access policies essential to the Zero Trust mandate of “never trust, always verify.” This session focuses on the challenges organizations face in maintaining an unwavering security posture for privileged users in an ever-evolving threat landscape. Explore the practicalities of implementing centralized context-aware policies that respond in real-time to changing access requirements and threat levels, even after initial authorization.
Synopsis: Berret Terry is a Senior Solutions Architect specializing in identity security and infrastructure access. With over two decades of experience at the intersection of security, systems engineering, and cloud architecture, he brings a deep understanding of how modern organizations navigate complexity, scale, and control in distributed environments.
His work centers on building secure, usable systems that bridge human workflows and machine-scale automation. Berret is particularly interested in how identity can be used as a foundational element for access control, compliance, and operational clarity across heterogeneous infrastructure.
Berret contributes to the evolution of secure infrastructure practices through architecture design, knowledge sharing, and cross-functional alignment. He draws on a diverse background across cloud security, DevSecOps, and platform engineering to help teams adopt modern patterns without compromising on security or usability.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Berret is an active voice in conversations about access architecture, Zero Trust, and the role of identity in securing technical ecosystems.
Join us for the Q3 2025 ISACA Quarterly Event!