Bassam Al-Khalidi

Bassam Al-Khalidi is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Axiad and a 20+ year veteran of identity and access management. He has led large-scale deployments of phishing-resistant authentication, CAC/PIV smart cards, and PKI across US federal, healthcare, and enterprise environments. His work centers on ICAM modernization—designing FICAM-aligned architectures, credential lifecycle automation, and certificate management that operationalize Zero Trust. A practitioner at heart, Bassam bridges policy and engineering, helping agencies and fortune-class enterprises meet Zero Trust framework while simplifying day-to-day operations. He regularly advises security teams on building resilient trust infrastructures for users, devices, and workloads in hybrid cloud.