Tal Herman

Tal Herman is Chief Product Officer at Orchid Security and a leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) with more than 20 years of experience building and scaling enterprise identity and security products.

Before joining Orchid Security, Tal served as Vice President of Product Management at Okta, where she built Okta Identity Governance from the ground up, helped establish Okta Privileged Access, and led product strategy across identity products including Universal Directory and Lifecycle Management. Earlier in her career, she held product and identity leadership roles at ForgeRock, OneLogin, and CA Technologies. (⁠Orchid)

Her experience spans both sides of the identity ecosystem: working with enterprise identity challenges firsthand and building the technologies designed to solve them. Throughout her career, Tal has helped bring identity products from initial concept to large-scale market adoption, with a particular focus on Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), identity security, and enterprise IAM. (⁠GlobeNewswire)

At Orchid Security, Tal leads product strategy as the company rethinks how enterprises discover, understand, and control identity across increasingly complex environments. Her work focuses on identity observability, Identity Dark Matter, non-human identities, and the new identity challenges introduced by autonomous AI agents. (⁠LinkedIn)

Tal is also an active voice in the identity security community, writing and speaking about the evolution of IAM, identity governance, identity observability, AI agent security, and the need for identity programs to move beyond what traditional IAM systems can see. Her recent work explores how organizations can uncover hidden identity activity and adapt identity security for an increasingly autonomous, AI-driven enterprise. (⁠Orchid)