Experts from Cisco and AOL join Ping Identity at Cloud Identity Summit 2012
March 15 2012 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Ping Identity®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, 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
ITMorteza 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 WorldGeorge 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.
About Cloud Identity Summit
Ping Identity’s Cloud Identity Summit is the premiere conference
dedicated to the role of identity in cloud security. With 15 expert
led, hands-on educational workshops and over 30 industry speakers,
the Cloud Identity Summit brings together hundreds of the world’s
top experts, implementers and vendors into a single week of
knowledge sharing.
Sponsors of the 2012 event include, Google (Gold Workshop
Sponsor), SailPoint (Silver Sponsor), Innotribe (Solution Sponsor),
Oracle (Solution Sponsor), Radiant Logic, Inc. (Solution Sponsor),
Symplified (Solution Center) and Ping Identity. Visit
www.cloudidentitysummit.com for more information and to register
for the event.
About Ping Identity | The Cloud Identity Security
Leader
Ping Identity provides cloud identity security solutions to more
than 800 of the world's largest companies, government organizations
and cloud businesses. With a 99% customer satisfaction rating, Ping
Identity empowers more than 42 of the Fortune 100 to secure
hundreds of millions of employees, customers, consumers and
partners using secure, open standards like SAML, OpenID and OAuth.
Businesses that depend on the Cloud rely on Ping Identity to
deliver simple, proven and secure cloud identity management through
single sign-on, federated identity management, mobile identity
security, API security, social media integration, and centralized
access control. Visit pingidentity.com for more information.