Introduction to Identity and Access Management
- When?
- Wednesday 20 April 2011, 14:30 to 15:30
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Mr Travis Spencer, Senior Technical Architect, Ping Identity, Sweden
Who are you and what are you allowed to do? These basic questions can be answered by a one year old, but are not as easily solved by complex computer systems. IT solutions used in banking, government, insurance, healthcare and other industries must satisfactorily answer these questions before being able to perform their actual function. Cloud computing and distributed system design makes this an even harder nut to crack. Due to globalization, increased competition, and outsources, however, solutions aren't optional for successful businesses.
In this lecture, Mr Spencer will introduce attendees to the basic concepts of digital identity and access management. He will also briefly describe the ways that these questions have been answered in the past and talk about how things like SOA, Web services, cloud computing, and social networking are requiring security architects to rethink their approaches to figuring out who's who on the Internet and what they should be allowed to do
Mr Travis Spencer's biography can be read here
