"Identity In The Cloud"

Speaker: Stuart Boardman (CGI)

Day 1: SOA & Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing introduces a range of new models for the use of Information Technology services. One effect of the Cloud is that IT services traditionally provided at known internal or remote locations are now provided over the Internet from any number of locations that may also provide service to many, unrelated consumers. The service providers may well bundle (or mash up) services provided by other providers in the Cloud. This has enormous implications for how Identity and Access Management (IAM) can operate, not least the near impossibility of provisioning every consumer to every possible service they might indirectly consume. There is a tension between providing the scale and agility offered by the Cloud and maintaining privacy and regulatory compliance on the other. If that tension is not properly resolved, the Cloud cannot deliver the long term gains it promises. There are other, relatively new (but also more mature) phenomena such as the Extended Enterprise and Web 2.0, which have a similar relationship with IAM. Solutions for the Cloud, which ignore these phenomena, are also doomed to failure. This presentation will look at these phenomena and present an architectural model rooted in SOA and some appropriate technologies and standards, which show how these tensions can indeed be resolved in a manner, which is in itself agile and which does not involve massive re-engineering. October 22, 2009 - 10:15 Room: Penn 1 Click Here to View Speaker Profile