Track: The New Identity Architecture: Getting There from Here

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Identity management is moving from a centralised activity to a more decentralised, multi-party model. Identity managers are facing a proliferation of new authoritative sources for identity information, and requirements to use that information in an increasing variety of applications and business processes. There are also new protocols and systems for collecting, distributing, using, and monitoring identity information. The pressure on IT organisations to reduce costs is increasing, while regulatory pressure and business requirements escalate the demand for fast, accurate, and compliant management of identity. At Catalyst 2010, we will describe new business processes that are emerging to satisfy today’s more complex identity requirements, and significant updates to our technical architectures that support those processes. We’ll also define the first milestones on the roadmap from centralised enterprise identity management to multi-party identity management.

In this track you’ll learn how to start building new process and technical structures for identity management before social, and technical and economic forces render your existing structures obsolete. You’ll come away from the session knowing:

• How IdM should be structured in your organisation – who sponsors it, who manages it, who the stakeholders are and what they do, and how is it governed
• Why you need to plan for a future in which you’ll consume identities from outside providers as well as producing them in-house
• How your systems consume identities from third parties, and how your organisation can trust those identities
• How you can cut costs and improve service by letting people manage their own identities
• How federation, provisioning standards, and identity assurance will change the identity landscape

The New Identity Topics:

Identity: New Models for Authentication, Provisioning, and Federation Today’s identity management solutions don’t meet all of the requirements created by today’s identity management problems. New solutions are emerging. We’ll tell you what they are and how to prepare for them.
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Identity Governance: Organisation, Policy, and Process While, identity management is 20 percent technical and 80 percent business, there’s a shortage of specific information about how to handle the “other” 80 percent of the problem. Catalyst 2010 will address the business aspects of identity management head on.
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