>> Narrator: From downtown San Francisco it's TheCUBE covering RSA North American 2018. >> Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick from TheCUBE. We're on the floor at the RSA Conference 2018. 40,000 plus people packed in Moscone North, South, West, and we're excited to be here. It's a crazy conference, Security's top of mind obviously and everybody is aware of this. And our next guest, he's Bill Mann, chief product officer from Centrify. Bill, great to see you. >> Great to see you. >> So you guys have a lot of stuff going on but what I think what's interesting to me is you guys have this kind of no trust as your starting foundation. Don't trust anybody, anything, any device. How do you work from there? Why is that the strategy? >> Well that strategy is because we've got a really new environment now. A new environment where we have to appreciate that the bad actors are already within our environment. And if you stop believing that bad actors are already in your environment, you have to start changing the way you think about security. So it's a really different way of thinking about security. So what we call this new way of thinking about security is zero trust security. And you might have heard this from Google with BeyondCorp and so forth. And with that as the overarching kind of way we are thinking about security, we're focusing on something called NextGenAccess. So how do you give people access to applications and services where they're remote. They're not on the network and they're not behind a firewall because who cares about the firewall anymore because it's not secure. >> Right. So there's four tenants of NextGenAccess. One is verify the user, verify the device that they are coming from so they're not coming from a compromised device. Then give them limited access to what they are trying to access or what we call Limit Privilege and Access. And that last one is learn and adapt which is this kind of pragmatic viewpoint which is we're never going to get security right day one, right? To learn and adapt and what we're doing look at auto tune logs and session logs to change your policy and adapt to get a better environment. >> So are you doing that every time they access the system? As they go from app to app? I mean how granular is it? Where you're consistently checking all these factors? >> We're always checking the end factor and where we use an actual machine learning to check what's happening in the environment and that machine learning is able to give that user a better experience when they are logging in. Let's say Bill's logging into Salesforce.com from the same location, from the same laptop all the time. Let's not get in the way right? But if Bill the IT worker is going from a different location and logging into a different server that's prompting for another factor of authentication because you want to make sure that this is really Bill. Because fundamentally you don't trust anybody in the network. >> And that's really what you guys call this NextGenAccess, right? [Bill]- That right, that's right, that's right. >> It's not just I got a VPN. You trust my VPN. I got my machine. Those days are long gone. >> Well VPNs, no no to VPNs as well, right? We do not trust VPNs either. >> So a bit topic ever since the election, right, has been people kind of infiltrating the election. Influencing you know how people think. And you guys are trying to do some proactive stuff even out here today for the 2018 election to try to minimize that. Tell us a little bit more about it. >> Yeah we call it Secure The Vote. And if the audience has looked at the recent 60 Minutes episode that came on. That did a really good that walked everybody through what was really happening with the elections. The way you know the Russians really got onto the servers that are storing our databases for the registration systems and changed data and created chaos in the environment. But the fundamental problem was compromised credentials. I mean 80% of all breaches believe it or not have to do with compromised credentials. They are not around all the things we think are the problem. So what we're doing here with Secure The Vote is giving our technology to state and local governments for eight months for free. And essentially they can then upgrade their systems, right? So they can secure the vote. So fundamentally securing who has access to what and why and when. And if you look at the people who are working on election boards, they're volunteers, there are a lot of temporary staff and so forth. >> Right, right. >> So you can imagine how the bad guys get into the environment. Now we've got a lot of experience on this. We sell to state and local governments. We've seen our technology being used in this kind of environment. So we're really making sure that we can do our part in terms of securing the election by providing our technology for free for eight months so election boards can use our technology and secure the vote. >> So how hard is it though for them to put it in for temporary kind of situation like that? You made it pretty easy for them to put it in if they are not an existing customer? >> Absolutely I mean one of the things, one of the fallacies around this whole NextGenAccess space is the fact that it's complicated. It's all SAS-Space, it's easy to use, and it's all in bite-sized chunks, right? So some customers can focus on the MFA aspects, right? Some customers can focus on making sure the privileged users who have access to the databases, right, are limiting their access right? So there's aspects of this that you can implement based upon where you want to be able to, what problem you want to be able to solve. We do provide a very pragmatic best practices way of implementing zero trust. So we are really providing that zero trust platform for the election boards. [Jeff]- Alright well that's great work Bill and certainly appreciated by everybody. We don't want crazy stuff going on in the elections. >> Absolutely. >> Jeff: So we'll have to leave it there. We'll catch up back in the office. It's a little chaotic here so thanks for taking a few minutes. >> Thank you very much. >> Alright, he's Bill Mann and I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching TheCUBE from RSCA 2018. Thanks for watching. (bright music)