THEME: Identity Management: Are We
There Yet?

With over a decade of sustained development on identity management (IdM) technologies, the market is both flourishing and flailing. As IdM vendors swarm around the most lucrative IT projects, the demand for compliance software in particular has left a permanent mark on IdM landscape. Technologies such as user provisioning, user federation, and directory services do—when judiciously applied—help organizations achieve near term audit and regulatory goals. But the presumption of centralized, command/control built into these technologies is already showing its limitations. Businesses are increasingly relying on partnerships to achieve their objectives, meaning that users and IT systems are rarely all “under one roof.” Instilling control over distributed environments is a tall order for IdM systems, but the reaction can’t be to demand businesses to return to monolithic domains. Instead, the technology must become more sophisticated to enable businesses to collaborate efficiently over distributed systems and with a diversified user population.

In the IdM sessions:

• Placing IdM projects in their proper business context
• How to use domain-centric products like Microsoft SharePoint in a multi-domain environment
• Which authentication products and practices to standardize on
• How to make roles projects effective
• How the IdM market will change over the next year
• How social style will replace command/control for IdM vendors

TOPICS:

SharePoint: Fixing a Hole Where the Pain Gets In
This topic will include discussions from customers, vendors, and Burton Group analysts on how to use SharePoint effectively across business boundaries.
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Identity, Society, and Business
Identity services need to show real business value—and not just by enabling certain regulatory objectives. Identity is clearly important to organizations and to society, but can it be a moneymaker on its own?
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Using Roles for Inter-domain Authorization
Roles are potentially a crucial component of distributed IdM architecture. In theory, exchanging role information across domain boundaries can reduce the dependency on personal information while improving access control. So why is it so hard to do in practice?
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Is There a Workable, Internet-Wide Model for Authentication?
The problem with authentication today is that customers have far too many competing but incomplete technologies available to them. In these sessions, Burton Group will push the industry to develop a general-purpose, highly interoperable solution for authentication.
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