Darren Platt. On Demand Identity for The Cloud.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Abstract. In today’s On Demand world, organizations face new challenges when trying to manage user access, security, and audit to cloud delivered applications. Unlike the past, when user identities and access control could be managed within the enterprise network, enterprises that deploy SaaS must manage user access to applications that reside outside the firewall. Access management has always been a difficult problem to solve; with the disappearing perimeter it has become even more complicated. This session will cover the technical and organizational challenges that must be addressed to manage access, authentication, single sign-on, auditing, and regulatory compliance for Software as a Service applications.

Speaker: Darren Platt is CTO of Symplified and a recognized expert on identity management. He co-authored the AuthXML specification, which was the precursor to the SAML identity federation standard. He has served as Senior Director of Technology for Ping Identity where he managed the company’s conformance services and PingTrust SOA security product. Previously he was vice president of engineering at Web access management pioneer Securant Technologies, where he managed development of the ClearTrust product until its acquisition by RSA Security in 1991.

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