Intro - Identity Management Congress

Thursday 15 November 2007
Business Faculty, Brussels in collaboration with:

PROGRAMME - PARTNERS

INTRODUCTION

Recent research shows that users waste a great deal of time every day logging on to a variety of systems and applications in all sorts of heterogeneous environments. This results in a loss of operating efficiency and productivity, poor access security, rising costs for both internal and external audits, little flexibility, etc. Consequently, it is little wonder that ‘Identity and Access Management’ has become extremely important these days. This workshop goes further than just explaining the technical aspects of ‘Identity and Access Management’. It also looks at taking an integrated approach which, combined with the right choice of software, make it possible to achieve the successful implementation of identity and access management.

The types of major issues that are also covered include: how is single sign-on implemented? opting for an agent-less approach? what is federated identity? implementing identity and access management in a service-oriented architecture, etc.

And, of course, we also go into standards such as SPML, SAML, XACML, Liberty, WS Security, etc.

This new TMAB seminar is aimed at people working in an organisation that is partly or totally (jointly) responsible for access rights and user management.

TOPICS

Fundamentals of Identity and Access Management
- Definition of Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- The main components in an IAM solution
- The business drivers for an IAM solution
  (enhanced security, higher operating efficiency and productivity, compliance, better support of staff mobility, cost-savings, etc)
- The challenges involved in implementing an IAM solution (success checklist, possible problems, strategic choices)
Solutions for Identity and Access Management
- Authentication (establishing identity)
  Summary of authentication techniques
- Authorisation (what the identity can do)
  Techniques for defining and monitoring roles and rights
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
  Strategies for SSO in web-based applications
- Federation
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), XACML and Liberty standards
Provisioning users
- The role of ‘provisioning’ in the IAM solution (identity and access management)
- ‘Delegated administration’ and ‘data ownership’
- The Meta-Directory and LDAP in relation to decentralised storage and synchronisation
Identity and Access Management solutions in an SOA context
- IAM and SOA points of interest
- Security in Web services – stack
- Future prospects
Summary of various Identity and Access Management tools
- Summary of the solutions available and evaluation
- Explanation of using these solutions
- Demos

TARGET AUDIENCE

This seminar is aimed at senior (IT) management involved in deciding and implementing strategies.

FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION, please contact Vincent Vannerom.

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