Identity experts convene to examine trends and opportunities for strong authentication and identity as a service

DENVER, June 26 — Ping Identity, The Cloud Identity Security Leader, today announced details of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) track for this year's Cloud Identity Summit, taking place July 16-20 at Vail, Colorado's Cascade Resort. The 2012 Cloud Identity Summit explores the role of identity as the new perimeter and examines ways cloud computing, mobile device access and social networking are transforming business and IT.

With more than 36,000 members, the CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

The Cloud Security Alliance track, which begins at 1:30 p.m. MT on Wednesday, July 18, includes the following sessions:

Overview of Domain 12 Guidance on Identity Management

(Identity, Entitlements and Access)

Ulrich Lang, CEO, ObjectSecurity

Identity, authorization, and access management includes people, processes, and systems that are used to manage access to enterprise resources by assuring that the identity of an entity is verified, then granting the correct level of access based on this assured identity. The concepts behind identity, entitlement, and access management used in traditional computing require fundamental changes in thinking when implementing a cloud environment. Domain 12 of the CSA Guidance for cloud computing addresses these issues by establishing three discrete functions: Identity, Entitlement, and Authorization/Access Management (IdEA).

CSA Identity Roadmap: SecaaS IAM & Future Directions

Ulrich Lang, CEO, ObjectSecurity

This session will provide an overview of CSA's current efforts to fit identity, authorization, and access management into the broader context of security as a service (SecaaS).This session presents the draft CSA SecaaS IAM guidance, which discusses what needs to be considered by an organization seeking to implement the IAM component of SecaaS as part of the cloud environment, or an organization that is looking for guidance as to how to assess an IAM SecaaS offering. The session is intended to assist with the planning, design, implementation and assessment of SecaaS offerings.

Issues and Opportunities with Strong Authentication

Phil Dunkelberger, CEO, LNR Consulting

This session will feature discussion of the widely-acknowledged problems with using account names and passwords to authenticate online. The nature of the breakdown of historical strong authentication will be reviewed, along with key obstacles faced in scaling prior attempted solutions. The interplay of existing systems, ongoing standards-based approaches, and new initiatives will be reviewed, with focus on the key characteristics required for any proposed solution to work at internet/cloud scale.

Panel: Issues and Opportunities with Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS)

• Moderator: Bill Corrington, special master, CSA
• Panelists:
  • David Miller, CSO, Covisint
  • Nishant Kaushik, chief architect, Identropy
  • Patrick Harding, CTO, Ping Identity
  • Darren Platt, CTO, Symplified

CSA Special Master Bill Corrington will lead a peer discussion on the state of Identity as a service, with a focus on identity security issues and opportunities.

Sponsors of the Cloud Identity Summit include KPMG LLP (Platinum Show Sponsor) Google (Gold Workshop Sponsor), SailPoint (Silver Sponsor), Radiant Logic, Inc. (Emerald Sponsor), Covisint (Diamond Sponsor), Axiomatics & Advancive (Solution Sponsor), Courion (Solution Sponsor), CSC (Solution Sponsor),IBM (Solution Sponsor), Identropy (Solution Sponsor) Innotribe (Solution Sponsor),Layer 7(Solution Sponsor), Oracle (Solution Sponsor), Password Bank (Solution Sponsor), Symplified (Solution Sponsor), Ultimate Software (Solution Sponsor), Vordel (OIDF and OIX Summit Sponsor), Gluu (Lunch Sponsor) and Ping Identity.

Visit www.cloudidentitysummit.com for more information and to register for the event.

About Cloud Identity Summit

Ping Identity's Cloud Identity Summit is the premiere conference dedicated to the role of identity in cloud security. With 15 expert led, hands-on educational workshops and over 30 industry speakers, the Cloud Identity Summit brings together hundreds of the world's top experts, implementers and vendors into a single week of knowledge sharing.

About Ping Identity | The Cloud Identity Security Leader

Ping Identity provides cloud identity security solutions to more than 800 of the world's largest companies, government organizations and cloud businesses. With a 99% customer satisfaction rating, Ping Identity empowers more than 42 of the Fortune 100 to secure hundreds of millions of employees, customers, consumers and partners using secure, open standards like SAML, OpenID and OAuth. Businesses that depend on the Cloud rely on Ping Identity to deliver simple, proven and secure cloud identity management through single sign-on, federated identity management, mobile identity security, API security, social media integration, and centralized access control. Visit pingidentity.com for more information.

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Source: Ping Identity