I’m Chris Anderson, Principal Product Manager and Identity Evangelist at Cisco Duo.
The Assertion is where I write about identity: where it’s been, where it’s going, and why it matters more than most people think. I work at the intersection of product strategy, engineering architecture, and evangelism; shaping how Cisco competes in the IAM and Identity Security market.
The identity landscape is shifting. The “user” is no longer just a human; it’s a machine, a service account, an AI agent acting on someone’s behalf. This site is where I think out loud about that frontier.
What I focus on:
🔐 Access Management & Authentication — SSO, passwordless, MFA, federation, passkeys, policy orchestration
⚙️ Identity Governance (IGA) — Access reviews, provisioning/deprovisioning, lifecycle management
🤖 Agentic AI & Non-Human Identity — Agent lifecycle, MCP, token exchange, authorization policy
🛡️ Identity Security — Identity proofing, credential management, threat detection
When I’m not thinking about identity, I’m building AI agents that think about identity for me.
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