David Carroll, "Identity Management Strategies and Integration Perspectives"

For large government agencies and corporations there can be
significant value in the use of identity, access, and rights
management infrastructures or IDM. The organizations investment in
directory services, authorization services, rights management, and
public key systems all combine to form a sometimes complex
infrastructure. The products that are deployed may be based upon
standards such as WS-Security, SAML, and X509.3 but many are still
hampered by proprietary vendor implementation, lack of
understanding of the capability of the technology as it relates to
business process, or unwise architectural decisions. This seminar
will focus on how the models for IDM are maturing and comment on
how the urgency to deploy solutions changes when combined with
service oriented architecture. The seminar will give practical
examples from the experience of working within large scale
infrastructures in both corporate and government environments. It
will conclude with commentary on the IDM issues and solutions
revolving around the largest government identity management effort
to date