Toufic Boubez

Dr. Toufic Boubez is a well-respected SOA and Web services pioneer and co-author of the SOA Manifesto. He is a Certified SOA Architect and Security Specialist, as well as a consultant and Certified SOA Trainer for SOA Systems Inc. He is the founder of SOA Craftworks and the founder and CTO of Layer 7 Technologies, one of the most successful vendors in SOA Governance and Security. Prior to Layer 7, he was the Chief Architect for Web Services at IBM's Software Group, and the Chief Architect for the IBM Web Services tools. At IBM, he founded the first SOA team and drove IBM's early XML and Web Services strategies. As part of his early SOA activities, he co-authored the original UDDI specification, and co-authored a service description language that was a precursor to WSDL. His current activities span SOA Security, SOA Governance and the impact of Cloud Computing.

Toufic is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences, including XML-One and WebServices-One. He has also been actively involved with various standards organizations such as OASIS, W3C and WS-I. He was the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification, and the co-author of the OASIS WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation specifications. He has also participated on the OASIS WS-Security, SAML and UDDI Technical Committees. He is the author of many publications and several books, including "Building Web Services with Java" and the upcoming titles "SOA Governance" and "SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services". InfoWorld named him to its "Ones to Watch" list in 2002, and CRN named him a Technology Innovator for 2004. .

Dr. Boubez holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.

Toufic will be speaking at the SOA Symposium and will also be teaching the SOA Security Specialist Certification post-conference workshop from Oct. 26-31, 2009. For more information, visit the Workshop Agendas page.

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"Securing Cloud-Based Services"

Speaker: Toufic Boubez (SOA Systems Inc.)

Day 1: Cloud Computing

What you don�t know can hurt you. You can conceptualize and theorize all you like about adopting Cloud Computing or using Cloud-based services with your SOA solutions, but you won�t be doing anything too impressive until you begin to identify and address the many security issues that this new platform brings about. In this talk we will be going over a number of the most common security concerns and vulnerabilities know today about Cloud-based services and we�ll pay special attention to the potentially dangerous practice of consuming externally provisioned Cloud-based services from within a private IT enterprise.

October 22, 2009 - 14:15

Room: Penn 2

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"SOA in the Cloud: How Do Cloud-Based Services Change the Way We Build Service-Oriented Solutions?"

Day 1: Expert Panels

Cloud-based services and platforms can benefit from being architecturally shaped by service-orientation and SOA patterns and best practices. But when building service-oriented solutions that incorporate or are entirely comprised of cloud-based services, what new design, development, and deployment considerations does this raise? The panel will discuss how the inclusion of cloud-based technology impacts SOA.

Panelists (in alphabetical order): Toufic Boubez, Simone Brunozzi, Jason Hogg, David Van Puyvelde, Herbjorn Wilhelmsen (Moderator)