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(ISC)2 Webinar – Identity is the New Perimeter: Identity and BYOD

Posted on October 24, 2012 | Leave a comment

Join me and Tyson Whitten from CA Technologies as we deliver a webinar about security in the BYOD world. The title of our talk is Identity and BYOD, and we are honored to be presenting as part of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² security series.

This webinar will take place on Oct 25, 2012 at 1pm ET/10am PT. We will delve deeply into the issues created by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement in the enterprise, and discuss what you can do to manage the associated risk.

You can sign up on the (ISC)² website.

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APIs, Cloud and Identity Tour 2012: Three Cities, Two Talks, Two Panels and a Catalyst

Posted on May 15, 2012 | 1 comment

On May 15-16 2012, I will be at the Privacy Identity Innovation (pii2012) conference held at the Bell Harbour International Conference Center in Seattle. I will be participating on a panel moderated by Eve Maler from Forrester, titled Privacy, Zero Trust and the API Economy. It will take place at 2:55pm on Tuesday, May 15th:

The Facebook Connect model is real, it’s powerful, and now it’s everywhere. Large volumes of accurate information about individuals can now flow easily through user-authorized API calls. Zero Trust requires initial perfect distrust between disparate networked systems, but are we encouraging users to add back too much trust, too readily? What are the ways this new model can be used for “good” and “evil”, and how can we mitigate the risks?

On Thursday May 17 at 9am Pacific Time, I will be delivering a webinar on API identity technologies, once again with Eve Maler from Forrester. We are going to talk about the idea of zero trust with APIs, an important stance to adopt as we approach what Eve often calls the coming identity singularity–that is, the time when identity technologies and standards will finally line up with real and immediate need in the industry. Here is the abstract for this webinar:

Identity, Access & Privacy in the New Hybrid Enterprise

Making sense of OAuth, OpenID Connect and UMA

In the new hybrid enterprise, organizations need to manage business functions that flow across their domain boundaries in all directions: partners accessing internal applications; employees using mobile devices; internal developers mashing up Cloud services; internal business owners working with third-party app developers. Integration increasingly happens via APIs and native apps, not browsers. Zero Trust is the new starting point for security and access control and it demands Internet scale and technical simplicity – requirements the go-to Web services solutions of the past decade, like SAML and WS-Trust, struggle to solve. This webinar from Layer 7 Technologies, featuring special guest Eve Maler of Forrester Research, Inc., will:

  • Discuss emerging trends for access control inside the enterprise
  • Provide a blueprint for understanding adoption considerations
You Will Learn

  • Why access control is evolving to support mobile, Cloud and API-based interactions
  • How the new standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect and UMA) compare to technologies like SAML
  • How to implement OAuth and OpenID Connect, based on case study examples
  • Futures around UMA and enterprise-scale API access

You can sign up for this talk at the Layer 7 Technologies web site.

Next week I’m off to Dublin to participate in the TMForum Management World 2012. I wrote earlier about the defense catalyst Layer 7 is participating in that explores the problem of how to manage clouds in the face of developing physical threats. If you are at the show, you must drop by the Forumville section on the show floor and have a look. The project results are very encouraging.

I’m also doing both a presentation and participating on a panel. The presentation title is API Management: What Defense and Service Providers Need to Know. Here is the abstract:

APIs promise to revolutionize the integration of mobile devices, on-premise computing and the cloud. They are the secret sauce that allows developers to bring any systems together quickly and efficiently. Within a few years, every service provider will need a dedicated API group responsible for management, promotion, and even monetization of this important new channel to market. And in the defense arena, where agile integration is an absolute necessity, APIs cannot be overlooked.

In this talk, you will learn:

·      Why APIs are revolutionizing Internet communications
– And making it more secure
·      Why this is an important opportunity for you
·      How you can successfully manage an API program
·      Why developer outreach matters
·      What tools and technologies you must put in place

This talk takes place at the Dublin Conference Centre on Wed May 23 at 11:30am GMT.

Finally, I’m also on a panel organized by my friend Nava Levy from Cvidya. This panel is titled Cloud adoption – resolving the trust vs. uptake paradox: Understanding and addressing customers’ security and data portability concerns to drive uptake.

Here is the panel abstract:

As cloud services continue to grow 5 times faster vs. traditional IT, it seems that also concerns re security and data portability are on the rise. In this session we will explain the roots of this paradox and the opportunities that arise by resolving these trust issues. By examining the different approaches other cloud providers utilize to address these issues, we will see how service providers, by properly understanding and addressing these concerns, can use trust concerns as a competitive advantage against many cloud providers who don’t have the carrier grade trust as one of their core competencies.  We will see that by addressing fraud, security, data portability and governances risks heads on, not only the uptake of cloud services will rise to include mainstream customers and conservative verticals, but also the type of data and processes that will migrate to the cloud will become more critical to the customers

The panel is on Thursday, May 24 at 9:50am GMT.

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Developers, Developers, Developers – Why API Management Should be Important To You Featuring RedMonk

Posted on April 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

It’s about developers again.

Everything in technology goes through cycles. If you stick around long enough, you begin to see patterns emerge with an almost predictable regularity. I actually find this comforting; it suggests we’re on a path of refinement of fundamental truths that date back in a continuous line though Alan Kay to Turing and beyond.

The wrong way to react to technology cycles is with the defensive-and-crusty “this is nothing new kid—we did it back in ’99 when you were stuck in the womb.” Thanks for nothing, Grandpa. A better approach is to recognize the importance of new energy and momentum to make great things happen.

The cycle that really excites me now is the new rise of the developer. Trying my best not to be crusty, there is a palatable excitement and energy out there that really does feel like it did in 1999. After years of outsourcing, after years of commoditization, developers matter again. A lot. It’s like the world has rediscovered the critical importance of this fundamentally creative endeavor.

This is a golden age of technology and possibility, one that is being driven by new blood and newer technology. The catalyst is the achingly perfect collision of cloud, mobility and social discovery with APIs, node.js, Git, NoSQL, HTML5, massive scalability… (I really could go on and on here).

Most of all, I’m excited by movements like Codecademy. This simple idea perfectly reflects the tenor of the time in which we live. People are no longer afraid of making things easy. The priesthood is gone; coding is now confident and mature.

I’ll be talking more about these topics and the important role APIs play in an upcoming webinar I will be delivering with James Governor, co-founder of Redmonk. This is the analyst firm that truly is at the heart of the new developer movement. I hope you can join us Thursday, April 19 at 9am Pacific. This one is going to be good.

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Upcoming Webinar: Extending Enterprise Security Into The Cloud

Posted on March 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

On March 21, 2011 Steve Coplan, Security Analyst from the 451 Group and I will present a webinar describing strategies CIOs and enterprise architects can  implement to create a unified security architecture between on-premise IT and the cloud.

I have great respect for Steve’s research. I think he is one of the most cerebral analysts in the business; but what impresses me most is that he is always able to clearly connect the theory to its practical instantiation in the real world. It’s a rare skill. He also has a degree in Zulu, which has little to do with technology, but makes him very interesting nonetheless.

Lately Steve and I have been talking about the shrinking security perimeter in the cloud and what this means to the traditional approaches for managing single sign-on and identity federation. This presentation is a product of these discussions, and I’m anticipating that it will be a very good one.

I hope you can join us for this webinar. It’s on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST | 5:00 PM GMT. You can register here.

Overview:
For years enterprises have invested in identity, privacy and threat protection technologies to guard their information and communication from attack, theft or compromise. The growth in SaaS and IaaS usage however introduces the need to secure information and communication that spans the enterprise and cloud. This webinar will look at approaches for extending existing enterprise security investments into the cloud without significant cost or complexity.

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How to Choose a SOA Gateway

Posted on January 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Dana Crane, Product Marketing Manager for Layer 7, is delivering a webinar this Thursday January 27 that tells you what you should consider when choosing a SOA Gateway. The SOA gateway category is a little like an iceberg, in that there is a lot more to it than first meets the eye. Here at Layer 7, we find that customers first become interested in SOA Gateways as a means to solve their security and transaction management problems. But they quickly discover that SOA Gateways can easily function as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a service orchestration engine, a lightweight PKI system, a Security Token Service (STS), and even a service host for applications. We have a number of customers who have been able to discontinue expensive maintenance contracts on basic infrastructure applications simply because their SOA Gateway was able to meet all of their needs.

I hope you can join my colleague Dana later this week and learn more about what you need to look for in an SOA Gateway solution. Dana is one of the best product guys I know. He really understands the needs of the marketplace, and he keeps all of us here at Layer 7 honest. You can sign up for Dana’s webinar on the Layer 7 web site right here.

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Upcoming Webinar: How To Implement Enterprise-scale API Management: The secret to making your business into a platform.

Posted on September 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

Jeffery Hammond, Principal Analyst with Forrester Research and I will be jointly delivering a webinar Tuesday, Sept 28th at 9am Pacific time. The topic we are discussing is API management and security. We’ll look at why APIs are important, and discuss the best practices for effectively leveraging these in your business.

Figure 1: The role of gateways in API management.

This promises to be a very good presentation, and I’d urge you to attend. We’re doing something a little different this time and delivering a much more interactive discussion than some of my past webinars. Since Jeffery and I are both traveling over the next few weeks, we’ve run through our rehearsals early. The material is top notch; Jeffery absolutely understands the issues organizations face as they attempt to expose core business applications using APIs. We are very much on the same page, and I have a strong feeling that this is going to be a very good show. I’m looking forward to it, and I hope you can join us.

You can register for this webinar here.

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Upcoming Webinar: Security in the Cloud vs Security for the Cloud

Posted on March 22, 2010 | 1 comment

I was speaking recently to Steve Coplan, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Security Practice at the 451 Group. I always enjoy talking to Steve. He has a deep understanding of technology and our business, but it’s his training as a journalist that I think sets him apart from the other analysts. His work comes through as erudite but accessible, and it is always very well written.

In our discussion, Steve was careful to make a clear distinction between between security in the cloud and security for the cloud. This intrigued me, because I think the differences are too often lost when people talk about cloud in the abstract. Steve’s point became the topic of a webinar that he and I will deliver together this Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 12:00pm EDT/9:00am PDT/4:00pm GMT.

I hope you can join us to learn why this distinction is so important. You can sign up for this webinar at the Layer 7 Technologies web site.

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Upcoming Webinar: Controlling Your SOA Across The Global Enterprise and Cloud

Posted on December 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

I’ll be delivering a Webinar next week about Layer 7’s Enterprise Service Manager (ESM) product. ESM offers the global view of clusters of SecureSpan Gateways and the services under their management. It’s functions fall into three main areas:

Enterprise-scale Management

  • Centrally manage and monitor all Gateways and associated services across the extended enterprise and into the cloud

Automated Policy Migration

  • Centrally approve and then push policy to any Gateway across the enterprise, automatically resolving environmental discrepancies

Disaster Recovery

  • Remotely manage, troubleshoot, backup and restore all Gateways, supporting full disaster recovery

ESM is an important tool for managing SOA in the Enterprise, but it also plays a critical role when SOA moves to the cloud. In addition to extending an organization’s visibility and control, ESM provides critical tools for automating the migration of policy to new environments:

I’ll go into this process in detail in the webinar. Hope to see you there. Here is the official abstract:

Organizations have begun extending their SOA initiatives beyond traditional enterprise boundaries to encompass third-party, geographically remote, and even cloud-based resources. As a result, the complexity associated with migrating applications across these environments (for example, from development in India to test in the cloud to production in a hosted data center) has increased exponentially. In this webinar from Layer 7, you will learn how topology and identity issues between environments, geographies and settings (i.e., enterprise vs. cloud) can be easily resolved and even automated, dramatically reducing migration risk.

You can sign up for this webinar at http://www.layer7tech.com/main/media/webinars.html.

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Webinar Available: New Security Model Requirements for the Cloud

Posted on November 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

Last week, Anne Thomas Manes, Research Director from Burton and I did a Webinar entitled New Security Model Requirements for the Cloud. It’s probably generated the most feedback of any webinar I’ve done. It’s now online, so have a look at it here.

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Upcoming Webinar with David Linthicum

Posted on May 27, 2009 | Leave a comment

Dave and I are co-presenting a webinar this Thursday, May 27th at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. The title is Cloud Control: Reducing the Risk for Cloud Deployments.

It’s going to be great to share the stage with Dave, whose work I have followed for a long time and is truly one of the great thought leaders in the SOA and cloud computing space.

Dave is going to introduce the key issues in cloud governance, and I’m going to present some concrete technological solutions that should be the foundation of your cloud governance program.

I hope you can join us. Register here.

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