Is your organization experiencing authorization challenges, such as lack of visibility and authorization gaps? You are invited to attend the AuthZen specification in action at an interop event hosted by the OpenID Foundation's AuthZEN Working Group at the Gartner Identity & Access Management (IAM) Summit 2025 in Grapevine, Texas. 

These interop sessions will take place on Tuesday 9th December at 12:00-12:30, 2:00-2:30 and 3:45-4:15 (CST), then on Wednesday 10th at 10:30-11:00 and 12:00-12:30 (CST). They will be hosted in Austin 1 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center .

The sessions will demonstrate how identity providers can use AuthZEN to make dynamic, real-time authorization decisions by connecting to AuthZEN-enabled Policy Decision Points (PDPs). This approach allows IdPs to ask the PDPs which claims should be injected in the token being minted. This leads to a richer and more context-aware token that the downstream applications can then use for finer-grained authorization decisions. 

David Brossard, Chief Technology Officer at Axiomatics and co-chair of the AuthZEN Working Group, said: "We're tackling one of identity and access management's persistent challenges - fragmented authorization. AuthZEN offers a solution by standardizing how systems make and communicate authorization decisions. We're encouraging enterprises to not only adopt AuthZEN, but to ask their software providers to support it too. Our goal is simple. Once all applications, COTS products, and SaaS platforms speak the same authorization language, these barriers will disappear.” AuthZEN will enable a more secure and auditable IT landscape with consistent access control policies throughout. 

The demonstration will bring together multiple organizations to prove the Authorization API 1.0's practical applicability, in line with the Public Review period as this specification moves to a Final vote in December. Participating organizations in this interop event currently include Axiomatics, Cerbos, Topaz, Curity, Gluu and Duende. More participants are expected to confirm attendance as the event draws closer. 

Why AuthZEN matters

Authorization policies are often scattered across different systems, creating silos that are difficult to manage and maintain. AuthZEN aims to change this by establishing common standards that allow systems to work together. The working group is focused on achieving three core objectives:

• Setting a standard for policy enforcement point-policy decision point (PEP-PDP) interactions
• Identifying and documenting common usage patterns and recommended best practices
• Creating a standard for communicating access policies to policy decision points.

The working group has previously published a roadmap for 2025 and has presented its progress at major industry events, including Gartner IAM London 2025, the European Identity Conference 2025, and Identiverse. The co-chairs will provide an on-stage update during Gartner IAM.

Join the interop

Organizations currently evaluating authorization solutions, building identity infrastructure, or seeking to solve policy silos in their enterprises are invited to come and see AuthZEN in action at Gartner IAM.

For those interested in actively participating in the interop or future AuthZEN initiatives, detailed scenario information and participation criteria can be found here. 

Alternatively, please contact the co-chairs David Brossard, Gerry Gebel or Omri Gazitt via email: openid-specs-authzen@lists.openid.net

Thanks to Gartner!  

OpenID Foundation Executive Director Gail Hodges added: “The OpenID Foundation is grateful to the Gartner IAM team for their partnership in hosting this AuthZen Interop event at the Gartner IAM 2025 event in Irvine Texas, and their prior support for AuthZen interop demonstration at the Gartner IAM 2025 London earlier this year. Gartner plays a vital role in the industry identifying and amplifying new specifications, and we value our collaboration with them to not only engage and inform industry leaders, but to bring specifications to life with real world demonstrations.”

About the OpenID Foundation

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