Authorization as a Calculated Risk

As most applications today are not built in a way to take such information into account, Dave will in the second part of this webinar talk with Axiomatics about how to make applications incorporate and process the risk and context information.

Ideally we have applications that rely on externalized authorization systems, for instance (but not mandatorily) based on XACML. But most current applications and even most newly developed applications are not built based on such an advanced security architecture approach. Thus, workarounds and other solutions are required. One such is claims-based architectures where the authorization still is done within the application. Another is the use of gateway approaches such as XML gateways or Web Access Management, where the risk-based authorization is done. These are probably the most relevant ones when it comes to authorization, where the latter ones are coarse-grain.

Dave and his guests will discuss with you potential solutions and "application patterns" that show how this could look like and to which extent existing applications can be enhanced to support risk- and context-based authentication without code customization (non-intrusive) or with coding (intrusive).