Identity management is going to be a big issue in 2016, and emerging authentication tools, such as biometrics, could very well gain a more significant foothold, although not without posing new risks, says Steve Martino, CISO at Cisco Systems.

In an interview at RSA Conference 2016, Martino discusses:

Why multiple new tools and techniques aimed at shoring up identity and access management are expected to hit the market this year; How consumer privacy concerns will pose opportunities and challenges for biometrics; and How connecting endpoints and relying on the cloud is working to simply enterprise platforms.

Martino leads Cisco's product and service sales IT team and also has leadership responsibility for the Global IT Theater Relationship Executives Group, which is focused on alignment of Cisco's global IT delivery. In addition to his GPSS IT leadership role, Martino also serves on the Cisco Collaboration Board, the Worldwide Channels Board and the Managed Services Council. Before joining Cisco, Martino spent seven years at Digeo Inc., where he oversaw the technical and operational planning, deployment and integration of its products and services with its customer operations and portal services.