UNC CAUSE 2026  |  October 28 to 30, 2026  |  Wilmington, NC | BOOTH #54

Identity That Keeps Pace With the Academic Calendar.

Students become employees. Faculty take on research roles. Alumni come back. Each change touches your SIS, your HR system and dozens of campus applications. Meet us at UNC CAUSE to see how identity lifecycle management keeps access right as people change roles.

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Featured session  |  Fireside chat  | October 28, 3:00 PM | Salon B

IAM Is a Program, Not a Project: Lessons from Appalachian State University

Appalachian State ran campus identity on twenty-year-old Banner scripts, manual provisioning, two separate onboarding paths, and a handful of disconnected directories. Rapid enrollment growth, mounting technical debt, and retiring institutional knowledge made that untenable.

In this candid fireside conversation, the App State team shares what it actually took to modernize: the business case that unlocked funding, the structural and staffing changes that followed, and a phased rollout that now manages the full lifecycle for more than 45,000 accounts across Active Directory, Google, and LDAP. They will be honest about what surprised them, including a leadership change in the middle of the work, and why treating identity as an ongoing program rather than a one-time project is what made it stick.

Speakers

Tom Van Gilder

CIO

Appalachian State University

Julie Taubman

Director of IT PMO

Appalachian State University

Matt McNaney

IT Manager, IAM

Appalachian State University

Bart Allan

General Manager

Bravura Security

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Meet Us at UNC CAUSE

Bring the identity problem you have not solved yet.

  • Automate joiner, mover and leaver changes for students, faculty, staff, alumni and affiliates
  • Keep access right for people who hold more than one role, such as student employees
  • Connect identity to your systems of record, including the SIS and the HR system
  • Bring privileged and service accounts under the same governance
  • Give users secure self-service password recovery with Bravura Pass

At BOOTH 54

Bring Your Term-Start Numbers.

One question, one useful conversation.

How many accounts did your team create, change or close at the start of this term, and how many of those changes were manual? Stop by our table with a rough estimate. We will walk you through where the manual work sits and what a phased identity plan could look like for your campus.

Ask us how campuses:

  • Give new students and staff the right access on day one, and remove it when they leave
  • Keep access right when a student becomes an employee, or an employee enrolls
  • Govern access consistently across schools, units and research groups
  • Run access reviews and reports that support FERPA and GLBA audit readiness

Short on time? Book a 20-minute slot below and we will hold time for you on the day.

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Twenty Minutes. Your Campus.

Book time with our team before the day fills up. Bring the identity program you are running and the problem you have not solved yet.

Bart Allan

General Manager

Senior leadership perspective on where identity security is heading and what that means for your roadmap.
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At our booth

No Two Identities Are the Same.

Build your own one-of-a-kind LEGO minifigure and take it with you. Our LEGO activation is back: a hands-on reminder that every identity on your campus is unique, and every one is worth protecting.

Higher education story

How UCSF Modernized a Decades-Old Identity System.

UCSF manages identity for students, faculty, staff, residents, researchers, guests and contractors. With Bravura Identity, it standardized provisioning and deprovisioning across departments and reduced the time spent on onboarding and deactivation.

"With Bravura Security as our identity provider, we significantly improved our flexibility, efficiency, and governance."

University of California San Francisco

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Higher education story

How App State Modernized IAM Across a Complex Campus.

Appalachian State University serves more than 20,000 students and staff. Working with Bravura Security and Moran Technology Consulting, it replaced homegrown scripts and manual provisioning with a phased program: birthright access first, then password management, then access requests, approvals and certification.

What App State achieved

  • Unified IAM across Banner, Google, DUO and LDAP
  • Reduced help desk tickets and manual workflows
  • Improved audit readiness and compliance
Watch the App State Story

Higher education resources

Can't make it to Wilmington?

Plan your next identity steps with two guides built for higher education. One helps you close today's security gaps. The other helps you choose and sequence your identity vendors.

Cover of the workbook How to Quickly Close Cybersecurity Risks Today and Produce an Identity Strategy for the Future

Workbook

How to Quickly Close Cybersecurity Risks Today and Produce an Identity Strategy for the Future

Close current risks and build an identity roadmap for your campus. Written with Moran Technology Consulting.

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White paper

Choosing the Right Vendor Can Be a Game Changer

Tips for higher education on selecting and sequencing your identity, privileged access and governance vendors.

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Why we are here

Since 1992. Still Closing the Same Gap.

Campuses run identity across systems that were not built to talk to each other. Think of the SIS, the HR system, Microsoft Entra ID and dozens of campus applications. People change roles each term, and the gaps between systems show up as orphaned accounts, access nobody approved and audit findings.

We close that space. One platform for Identity, Privileged Access, and Password management, with connectors into the systems you already own.

  • 1,200+organizations
  • 7M+users
  • 140+connectors
  • 1992founded