Another Cloud Identity Summit is in the books, and it confirmed its status as one of the premier conferences for all things identity management. Andre and the Ping Identity team did a great job as always, and Napa was a great location (though connectivity did become an issue). Most importantly, Mark and Pam did a
What happens when you take a bunch of technologists interested in identity, cloud computing, mobile and the evolution of IT and whisk them away to a resort in wine country? Well, we will get a chance to find out next week at the Cloud Identity Summit that is taking place in Napa, CA. Through workshops,
While the identity community is consumed by the “SAML is a Zombie” and “OAuth is Evil” debates, I wanted to go back to a slightly older topic of discussion. Almost 2 months ago (my, how time flies when protocols are being given the business), I wrote about Windows Azure AD and the necessity to understand
There’s no two ways about it. This year’s Cloud Identity Summit was another incredible edition that brought together great content and really interesting discussions about the state and future of identity. It is definitely going to be fun watching the amazing community we have in identity use this conference as a platform to make a
It’s Cloud Identity Summit week, and it should be a blast. For one, it’s in beautiful Vail, CO – a place I’ve never been to. Secondly, you never know what will happen when you put all the identity oddballs in the same place, with no place to escape to. But mostly, there should be lots
What does it take to wake me from my blogging slumber? I guess it takes someone bashing Identity Management as a security technology that is deployed just for the sake of it. In an article today on InfoWorld entitled ‘Killing the cloud with complexity‘, David Linthicum classifies Identity Management as a “trendy”, “newer” and “more
At the Cloud Identity Summit last week, one thing was patently obvious – the agenda was filled with super interesting talks from very talented speakers. So given that I was talking about the riveting (not!) topic of user provisioning, I knew I had to pique peoples curiosity to draw them in. To that end, I
Mike Neuenschwander has dubbed July as Identity Conference Month. And he should know, given that so many of his signature moments were on stage at the Catalyst conference that will be returning at the end of this month (July 26-29 in San Diego). Catalyst is always the most thought-provoking identity event of the year, but