Rachel Mendez
Zero Trust Architect
10+ years in IAM
Rachel architects Zero Trust deployments for financial services and federal customers. Her engagement portfolio focuses on the policy layer — Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID, sign-on policies in Okta, and the risk-engine integrations that make adaptive authentication work in regulated environments. She holds Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect, Okta Certified Administrator, and CompTIA Security+ certifications, and has presented at the Microsoft Security Summit on Conditional Access exclusion-policy hygiene.
Credentials
- Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect
- Okta Certified Administrator
- CompTIA Security+
Practice focus
- zero trust
- identity federation