# CIAM Weekly

Customer Identity and access management news and analysis.

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## [Agents In The Grocery Store](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/agents-in-the-grocery-store)

_2026-08-24 · Dan Moore_

Heya, I ran into the perfect use case for an AI agent, which shows the power of agents in a CIAM system.

## [Personal Security in the Age of AI Attacks](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/personal-security-in-the-age-of-ai)

_2026-08-17 · Dan Moore_

Heya, I want to point you to a great episode of Plain English with Derek Thompson, where he talks with Alex Stamos, who is the former CISO of both Meta/Facebook and Yahoo.

## [Why EMA For MCP Doesn't Make Sense For CIAM](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/why-ema-for-mcp-doesnt-make-sense)

_2026-08-09 · Dan Moore_

Heya, Enterprise Managed Authorization (EMA) is an official extension for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and it has had a big few months.

## [Want To Win A Copy Of Mastering Digital Identity?](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/want-to-win-a-copy-of-mastering-digital)

_2026-08-03 · Dan Moore_

Heya, I was lucky enough to interview Eve Maler, both for this newsletter and for my employer.

## [Passwords Aren't Going Away](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/passwords-arent-going-away)

_2026-07-27 · Dan Moore_

Heya, I was recently on the Identity at the Center podcast, and we had a good discussion covering a lot of topics.

## [Where Should Your User Profile Data Live?](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/where-should-your-user-profile-data)

_2026-07-20 · Dan Moore_

Heya, There are two patterns I’ve seen work effectively for handling user profile data when an application uses a CIAM (customer identity and access management) system.

## [Customizing CIAM: Look and Feel, Workflow, Integration](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/customizing-ciam-look-and-feel-workflow)

_2026-07-13 · Dan Moore_

Heya, I want to talk about three different kinds of customization that matter for CIAM systems.

## [An Interview With Eve Maler](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-eve-maler)

_2026-07-06_

Heya, This is another in my series of interviews about the future of CIAM from experts in the space.

## [Flavors of Login Identifiers](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/flavors-of-login-identifiers)

_2026-06-29 · Dan Moore_

Heya, Login identifiers can be categorized in a few dimensions.

## [The Trouble With Reused Phone Numbers in CIAM](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-reused-phone-numbers)

_2026-06-22 · Dan Moore_

Heya, What do you do about legitimate account takeover.

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## [The White Space in Standards](https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/the-white-space-in-standards)

_2026-06-15 · Dan Moore_

Heya, One of the things I’ve been doing lately is reading through standards and specifications we’re thinking about implementing at my day job.