Identity and Security Leaders to Gather in Vail for Cloud Identity Summit 2012

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The Cloud Identity Security Leader(TM), today announced open registration and the initial lineup of workshops, lectures, discussions and featured speakers for the 2012 Cloud Identity Summit. Identity and security thought leaders, architects, and enterprise practitioners will converge at Vail, Colorado’s Cascade Resort July 16-20, 2012, to explore the central role of identity in enterprise cloud security and discuss how cloud computing, mobile device access and social networking are transforming the role of IT.

To remain competitive and capitalize on new opportunities, organizations require IT systems that are increasingly complex and heterogeneous. Pressure from employees to bring their own devices (BYOD) further complicates the demands placed upon IT. Cloud computing has been the proposed solution to these challenges, but enforcing, and monitoring access to corporate resources that are scattered around the Internet is difficult. Successful adopters of this new computing paradigm have recognized that identity is the new network perimeter…

The 3rd annual Cloud Identity Summit will provide attendees with the knowledge, best practices, advice and contacts needed to flourish in this new frontier. With these, attendees will be able to lead their organizations to successful adoption of cloud APIs, BYOD, social networking, mobile device management, adaptive authentication, and other IT demands their businesses need to thrive in this new landscape.

Industry Speakers & Moderators (partial listing)

— Open Identity Exchange (OIX) and OpenID Foundation Chairman Don Thibeau

— Google Director of Internet Identity Products Andrew Nash

— Google Security Product Manager Eric Sachs

— Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst Bob Blakley

— Ping Identity CTO Patrick Harding

— Salesforce.com Sr. Dir. of Product Management, Identity and Security Chuck Mortimore

Enterprise Speakers (partial listing)

— Equinix CIO Brian Lillie

— GE Senior Enterprise Architect Daniel Headrick

— M&T Bank Vice President of Information Security Don Murphy

— SWIFT Innovation Leader Peter Vander Auwera

Summits, Workshops and Training

— OpenID Connect Technology Interop — Sponsored by the OpenID Foundation

— OpenID Foundation Summit

— OIX Summit

— SAML Hands On for Secure Cloud Single Sign-On

— OAuth Hands On to Secure Enterprise, SaaS & Mobile APIs

— BYOD Meets IdM — How to Secure & Manage Personal Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

— Advanced Cloud Identity & Federation Use-Cases leveraging PingFederate

— Leveraging OAuth and PingFederate for Native Mobile App Security

— Hands On with OAuth, Facebook and the Force.com Platforms

— How Google will help your Site get out of the Password Business

— Hands On with OpenID Connect

What Past Attendees Say

"I attended the Identity Summit this summer and was profoundly impacted as a security professional. There are times in life when we are momentarily inspired, experience euphoria, then that feeling wears away and the inevitable return to normalcy occurs. I wanted to be certain this was not the case."

"I was overwhelmed with the opportunities I saw to step up and be a part of it all and hardly knew where to focus. The impact of the decisions that this particular community makes and the influence that they have is so far-reaching it is mind-boggling."

"The Cloud Identity Summit was excellent. I’m going to recommend to our events people that we help sponsor and be as involved as possible next year."

Cloud Identity Summit sponsors include Google (Gold Workshop Sponsor), SailPoint (Silver Sponsor), Innotribe (Solution Sponsor), Oracle (Solution Sponsor), Radiant Logic, Inc. (Solution Sponsor) and Ping Identity. Visit www.cloudidentitysummit.com for more information and to register for the event.