Eric Woodruff
Semperis
Chief Identity Architect
United States of America

Past Speaking Engagements

Throughout his 26-year career in the IT field, Eric has sought out and held a diverse range of roles. Currently the Chief Identity Architect for Semperis; Eric previously was a member of the Security Research and Product teams. Prior to Semperis, Eric worked as a Security and Identity Architect at Microsoft partners, spent time working at Microsoft as a Sr. Premier Field Engineer, and spent almost 15 years in the public sector, with 10 of them as a technical manager. Eric is a Microsoft MVP for security, recognized for his expertise in the Microsoft identity ecosystem. His security research has also been recognized by Microsoft, most notably for his findings he dubbed “UnOAuthorized”. Eric is a strong proponent of knowledge sharing and spends a good deal of time sharing his insights and expertise at conferences as well as through blogging. Eric further supports the professional security and identity community as an IDPro member, working as part of the IDPro Body of Knowledge committee.

Real world attacks abusing your Entra ID application misconfigurations
MC2MC Connect 2026
security
identity
entra
applications
entra-id

05/02/2026

BluePoint Antwerp

Berchem, Belgium


Passkey deployments are easy, and other lies we tell ourselves
ExpertsLive USA
security
identity
entra
phishing
identity-security
fido2
entra-id

10/10/2025

Microsoft

Warszawa, Poland


Everything you ever wanted to know about Enterprise applications but were afraid to ask.
MC2MC Connect 2025
security
identity
entra
identity-security
entra-id

06/02/2025

BluePoint Antwerp

Berchem, Belgium


Strategizing AD FS to Entra ID Migrations
North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit
security
azure-ad
identity
entra
adfs
entra-id
ad-fs

09/04/2024

Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas

Irving, United States of America


The common findings from real world Azure AD security assessments
CollabDays New England 2023
security
azure-ad
identity
aad
entra

21/10/2023

Archer Hotel

Burlington, United States of America


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Eric speaks about
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identity
mvp
entra-id
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