Intel Corporation

Software as a service (SaaS) is great. SaaS is taking over the world. That’s the good news. However, organizations that embrace the SaaS model struggle to effectively administer the overwhelming number of user accounts they have to create. Their users are constantly forgetting their passwords and calling the help desk. They are unhappy because they have to re-type their user ID and password for each application to log in over and over again during the day. It takes IT too long to create accounts for new users. When a user leaves the organization their SaaS accounts remain active, increasing the risk of data exposure.

At the same time, traditional IAM solutions focused on the enterprise have not kept pace with innovation. As a result, new approaches to identity and access management based on leveraging the powerful, elastic, and cost-effective cloud model are emerging.

In this webinar, Sr. Analyst Dave Kearns of KuppingerCole will discuss:

• Why you should consider moving your IAM infrastructure to the cloud.
• The benefits and challenges of managing user identities in the cloud.
• Important capabilities to consider including:
  • The role of standards
  • Alternative single sign-on (SSO) security models
  • Strong authentication in the cloud
  • Managing user provisioning/de-provisioning of SaaS accounts.
  • What to look for when evaluating a cloud-based identity service provider.

Vikas Jain, Director of Product Management with the Application Security and Identity Products Group at Intel, will follow with an overview of Intel Cloud SSO, Intel’s newest identity and security solution for the cloud. Vikas will demonstrate how Intel’s solution enables companies to outsource their identity infrastructure to a trusted provider and quickly deploy cost-effective, standards-based identity features, including single sign-on, 2-factor strong authentication, and enterprise-class identity lifecycle management.

SOA governance is becoming increasingly important to secure ROI. The recent release of the OpenGroup's OSIMM model for Service Integration Maturity is a symptomatic and valuable contribution. For organizations striving to boost performance while enabling centralized policy enforcement in service deployments, XML security gateways offer great opportunities. XACML represents another important solution. This new standard for access control plays an important role in SOA deployments aiming at higher levels of maturity as outlined by OSIMM. An XML security gateway and an XACML based solution combined establish a whole new set of opportunities to enhance security, administration and performance in deployed services. Intel and Axiomatics now present a joint conceptual solution where the Intel SOA Expressway SOA soft-appliance security gateway is used in conjunction with Axiomatics Policy Server for XACML based access control. Together these products provide a very strong value proposition for service oriented architectures. Topics include:  

• Overview of authorization, entitlements, and the security gateway deployment patterns
• Enrichment of authorization decisions with dynamic ABAC
• Evolution from static to context aware authorization rules
• Issues with cross-domain authorization policies
• XACML models for the cloud-combining delegated AuthN with local AuthZ
• Examination of vertical use cases including defense, financial, and healthcare

This Webinar is supported by Axiomatics and Intel.

A joint Intel/Axiomatics White paper will be made available to attendees during the presentation: