We’re excited to announce that on December 2nd at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST we’ll be holding the second meeting of the Enterprise SaaS Working Group on the topic of Access and Identity Management for the Cloud.
One of the recognized challenges with SaaS in the enterprise is the silos of identity that are created by cloud applications. Each service contains its own ‘version of the truth’ around users, permissions and credentials, disconnected from legacy directory services and identity management systems. Based on feedback from our first event, this meeting will focus on the identity management and access control issues that need to be addressed for SaaS to become truly mainstream in the enterprise. Discussion will focus on several questions including:
- SaaS identity issues in the enterprise – speed bump or show stopper?
- What will be the identity source(s) in a cloud-centric world?
- Can separate cloud and on-premise user identities co-exist?
- Will enterprise IT ever put corporate directories in the cloud?
Participants in the session will include:
- Michael Amend – Director of Enterprise Architecture at Dell, Inc.
- Chris Bedi – CIO at VeriSign, Inc.
- Scott Carruth – VP, Information Systems at Initiate Systems
- Peter Dapkus – Director of Product Management at Salesforce.com
- Steve Coplan – Senior Analyst, Enterprise Security Practice at The 451 Group
- Doug Harr – CIO at Ingres Corporation
- Ryan Nichols – VP Cloudsourcing & Cloud Strategies at Appirio
The discussion will focus on critical issues and corresponding best practices in the areas of access management, authentication, identity synchronization and identity policy enforcement and will include a Q&A session open to all attendees. Click here for more information and to register for this exciting event!
