Experts from Cisco and AOL join Ping Identity at Cloud Identity Summit 2012
March 15, 2012
The Cloud Identity Security Leader(TM), today announced that Cisco Principal Engineer Morteza Ansari and AOL Chief Architect for Identity Services George Fletcher will be among an elite group of experts facilitating this year’s Cloud Identity Summit. The 2012 Cloud Identity Summit explores the role of identity as the new perimeter and ways cloud computing, mobile device access and social networking are transforming business and IT.
Ansari and Fletcher will facilitate general conference sessions taking place July 16-20, at the 2012 Cloud Identity Summit at Vail, Colorado’s Cascade Resort…
The Identity & Policy Implications of Cloud to IT Morteza Ansari — Cisco Principal Engineer
Rapid enterprise adoption of cloud services and the explosion of mobile devices have challenged identity management and federation services. The industry has responded with a number of new standards and solutions. How do they all come together to solve today’s enterprise IT challenges? Morteza Ansari, Cisco Principal Engineer, will examine common identity and policy problems and explore various options to remain secure while embracing cloud adoption and mobile devices.
For the past 20 years Morteza Ansari has been designing and delivering enterprise class software and services with a primary focus on large-scale distributed data and identity systems. He is currently the lead architect responsible for the identity platform strategy that supports Cisco’s collaboration product portfolio. Prior to Cisco, he held architecture and management roles at Infoblox, Sun, HP, and Innovus. Morteza participates in industry standardization efforts at IETF, TCG, and most recently at Openweb Foundation. He holds a MEng in autonomous robotics and a computer engineering degree from McMaster University in Canada.
From Owning to Knowing the Customer — Role of Federation in the New World George Fletcher — AOL Chief Architect for Identity Services
Businesses too often focus on "owning" the customer while the greatest value may actually be building a long-term customer relationship. If building a strong relationship is key, identity federation is critical. In this session, AOL Chief Architect for Identity Services George Fletcher provides technical insights into building customer value. The session will touch upon several aspects of this shift in thinking, including user experience implications, customer care and phone support, insecurity of owning the password, data aggregation and behavioral profiling and verified attributes
Currently the Chief Architect for Consumer Identity Services at AOL Inc., George Fletcher is deeply engaged in a number of identity standards efforts including OpenID 2, OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID Connect and User Managed Access (Kantara Initiative). His past work includes contributions to Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), XRI OASIS TCs and the Liberty Alliance Identity Web Service Framework.