Bill Mann

Bill Mann is CEO of Styra, the founders of the open source authorization project Open Policy Agent and leaders in cloud-native authorization. Bill comes to Styra with a strong enterprise security background, having held previous leadership positions most recently at Centrify and CA Technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in Computer Science from Aston University in England.

Balancing faster software deployment times with stronger security

Bill Mann

September 9, 2022

What are four steps organizations can take to balance faster software development cycles with robust security?

Authentication vs. authorization | Why we need authorization standards and what it means for enterprise cybersecurity

I witnessed the transition from bespoke authentication to standards-based authentication. It’s time to do the same for authorization.

Bill Mann

August 6, 2020

Twenty years ago, almost everything in the IT world was on-premises: hardware and software, including the tools you used to verify who your users were and what they could do in your systems. In today’s cloud-native world, almost nothing is on-prem, and because of the explosion of apps, remote users and devices, it has become a considerably more complicated task, by orders of magnitude, to verify the identity of a user — or a service — and determine policies that say what they are and aren’t allowed to do.

LIVE: July 8, 2026 at 2 pm EDT In this webinar, speakers will share key insights from the report, including why today’s threat environment demands greater maturity and how to evaluate your organization’s current security posture.

Bill Mann

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Balancing faster software deployment times with stronger security

Authentication vs. authorization | Why we need authorization standards and what it means for enterprise cybersecurity

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