Paul Toal

Field CISO, Senior Director

Paul has worked in security for around 27 years, and, after 18 years at Oracle, is amongst Oracle EMEA's most senior security experts, focusing on a number of areas within the field of cyber security. Paul works at all levels within organisations, from board level through to architects and developers, explaining and demonstrating the importance of security in the connected, cyber world. He also spends a lot of time helping companies to understand how security is used to reduce risk, as well as improve user experience and an organisation's security posture. Paul provides a strong link between customers and product engineering, to collate requirements, incubate new services and drive strategy.

Paul has been involved in several large cloud transformation programmes as the lead security architect of the solution. In addition, Paul was one of the original authors of the UK Government's Identity Assurance specification (Gov.UK Verify).

Recently, Paul has co-authored a whitepaper looking at how to approach zero trust security within Oracle Cloud.

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Recent Blogs

Managing access across multiple Oracle SaaS and PaaS environments

This blog explains the recommended identity architecture for enabling single sign-on across multiple SaaS and PaaS resources within Oracle Cloud

Quick tip 10: MFA user enrollment status within OCI IAM

In this article we'll look at various options for interrogating the multi-factor authentication enrollment status for users.

Quick tip 9: My sign-on policy denies access. Help!

You've changed your OCI IAM sign-on policy and now can't login. Is there anything you can do?

Quick tip 8: Managing authentication through sign-on policies

In my last quick tip, I described how you can assign groups to admin roles within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access Management (IAM). In this post, I’m staying on the topic of IAM but focusing on authentication.

4 mitos sobre la seguridad de confianza cero y la verdad sobre ellos

Seguridad de confianza cero: Ya no es una expresión vacía, sino la fórmula para apuntalar la ciberseguridad

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