Bio

Guido Grillenmeier is a Principal Technologist with SEMPERIS Inc., a company focused on delivering cutting-edge identity protection technology. Guido is based in Germany and has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for 12 years. He has helped various customers to secure their Active Directory, and supported them in their transformation to Windows 10/m365 and Azure cloud-services. Guido has often spoken at various technology conferences, including the original NetPro’s Directory Experts Conference (DEC), later called Quest Technical Experts Conference (TEC), and has been a speaker at various other Microsoft-technology related conferences, such as Microsoft Tech-ED, IT Forum or Windows Connections. In his HP-days he was part of the Advanced Technology Group and in this role has led the development and delivery for HP's Windows Server 2008 Academies to HP’s own Services division. Besides writing articles for technical magazines, Guido is also the co-author of “Microsoft Windows Security Fundamentals” (Digital Press).