As Cloud computing matures, organizations are turning to well-known protocols and tools to retain control over data stored away from the watchful eyes of corporate IT. The Cloud Identity Summit is an environment for questioning, learning, and determining how identity can solve this critical security and integration challenge. 
 




The Summit features thought leaders, visionaries, architects and business owners who will define a new world delivering security and access controls for cloud computing. 
 


The conference offers discussion sessions, instructional workshops and hands-on demos in addition to nearly three days of debate on standards, trends, how-to’s and the role of identity to secure the cloud.

Topics

Understanding the Cloud Identity Ecosystem

The industry is abuzz with talk about cloud and cloud identity. Discover the definition of a secure cloud and learn the significance of terms such as identity providers, reputation providers, strong authentication, and policy and rights management mediators.

Recognizing Cloud Identity Use-Cases

The Summit will highlight how to secure enterprise SaaS deployments, and detail what is possible today and what’s needed for tomorrow. The requirements go beyond extending internal enterprise systems, such as directories. As the cloud takes hold, identity is a must-have.

Standardizing Private/Public Cloud Integration
The cloud is actually made up of a collection of smaller clouds, which means agreed upon standards are needed for integrating these environments. Find out what experts are recommending and how companies can align their strategies with the technologies.

Dissecting Cloud Identity Standards
Secure internet identity infrastructure requires standard protocols, interfaces and API's. The summit will help make sense of the alphabet soup presented to end-users, including OpenID, SAML, SPML, ACXML, OpenID, OIDF, ICF, OIX, OSIS, Oauth IETF, Oauth WRAP, SSTC, WS-Federation, WS-SX (WS-Trust), IMI, Kantara, Concordia, Identity in the Clouds (new OASIS TC), Shibboleth, Cloud Security Alliance and TV Everywhere?

Who's in your Cloud and Why? Do you even know?
Privileged access controls take on new importance in the cloud because many security constructs used to protect today’s corporate networks don't apply. Compliance and auditing, however, are no less important. Learn how to document who is in your cloud, and who is managing it.

Planning for 3rd Party (Cloud-Based) Identity Services

What efficiencies in user administration will come from cloud-based identity and outsourced directory providers? How can you use these services to erase the access control burdens internal directories require for incorporating contractors, partners, customers, retirees or franchise employees. Can clouds really reduce user administration?

Preparing for Consumer Identity
OpenID and Information cards promise to give consumers one identity for use everywhere, but where are these technologies in the adoption life-cycle? How do they relate to what businesses are already doing with their partners, and what is required to create a dynamic trust fabric capable to make the two technologies a reality?

Making Cloud Identity Provisioning a Reality
The access systems used today to protect internal business applications take a backseat when SaaS is adopted. How do companies maintain security, control and automation when adopting SaaS? The Summit will answer questions around secure SaaS usage? Do privileged account controls extend to the cloud? Are corporate credentials accidentally being duplicated in the cloud? Does the enterprise even know about it?

Securing & Personalizing Mashups
Many SOA implementations are using WS-Trust, but in the cloud OAuth is becoming the standard of choice for lightweight authorization between applications. Learn about what that means for providing more personalized services and how it provides more security to service providers.

Enterprise Identity meets Consumer Identity
There are two overlapping sets of identity infrastructures being deployed that have many duplications, including Single Sign-On to web applications. How will these infrastructures align or will they? How will enterprises align security levels required for their B2B interactions with the convenience they have with their customer interactions?

Monitoring Cloud Activity

If you've invested in SEIM, you can see what’s happening behind your firewall, but can you see beyond into employee activity in the cloud? What is being done to align controls on activity beyond enterprise walls with established internal controls?

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