Track VII: SOA, Federation & Identity as a Service

Moderator:

Service Oriented Architecture

Identity Management - Vision 2010: Identity as a Service

Identity Management and SOA ? a Winning Combination for the Agile Enterprise

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) raises new challenges for Identity and Access Management (IAM) but equally IAM represents a challenge, which has yet to be properly addressed in SOA. SOA is first and foremost about delivering business agility – the ability to respond in good time and at acceptable cost to rapid and not always predictable change. Successful enterprises don’t try to avoid change – they embrace it. Every aspect of the agile enterprise must be agile: the organization, its processes and policies and the IT services and infrastructure that support that. SOA also opens up the world of the extended enterprise and the vision of the virtual enterprise. Enterprise services may be shared with, operated by or delegated (outsourced) to partners and suppliers.IAM is a specific challenge, which must be addressed during the planning of an SOA. In an agile environment based on Enterprise services possibly deriving from different security domains, it is important to design access policies, which are as agile as the correspondent services. Access policies need to be as loosely coupled as the services themselves and have to be applicable independently of user repositories and security domains.

As a consolidated user repository an IAM system becomes not only the point of authority for authentication and authorization but will also provide the basis for Identity Federation, which will be the foundation for manageable cross-domain SOA.This presentation looks in more detail at the challenges, the strengths and weaknesses of existing techniques and at the standards needed to make it all work. We will consider various strategies to deliver the solution and the related architectural models that incorporate that solution in a complete enterprise vision.

Service Oriented Identity

Managing Identities along Supply Chains - Automotive Industry

The way that businesses are supporting business relationships is changing rapidly. Business is increasingly extending the enterprise outside of the traditional boundaries to allow greater access to services, systems and information. Simply put, business is about making decisions. Extending the enterprise to incorporate customers, partners, employees, regulators and investors is a requirement for this improved performance. Tighter integration, closer relationships and more open communication will enable better decision-making. No where is this more important that in managing the complexity of the Automotive supply chain. The prerequisite to support this expanding of the enterprise is the ability of organizations to manage the users who access this new extended enterprise. Federated Identity and Access Management (FIAM) solutions allow organizations to securely leverage extended enterprise functionality to transform their business.

Service Oriented Identity - From Software to (managed) Services

Virtual Directories & SOA

Loosely Coupling Applications through Identity Information - The Future Role of Virtual Directories

Service Oriented Identity - Vendor Panel

SOA, Federation + IAM ? the Vendor?s Vision

High Availability

How to deploy a bullet-proof, fail-safe Directory Infrastructure

Directories are absolutely critical for Identity management and authentication and authorisation. Problems arising in the directory infrastructure have a dramatic effect on the productivity of any company: people cannot log in, and services cannot be provided. Each minute of loss in productivity quickly adds up in terms of money. In this presentation, Felix talks about making directory infrastructure bullet proof. Over the years, he has gathered extensive experience in multiple clients and lists all of the cases that can go wrong. For each of the cases, he explains how they can be overcome, and explains best practises for deployments.

The goal of this presentation is to provided a balanced view of the potential problems, the technologies available to overcome these, and to give a good balance for deploying highly available, and efficient infrastructure at a minimum cost.