Midwest IT Survival

As I mentioned in my previous post, I had the opportunity to present at the 9^th annual Information Security Summit 2011. The full title of my presentation was “Identity and Access Management Reference Architecture for Cloud Computing” and just about filled the room with attendees. I was impressed with the turnout given I was in the last speaking slot on the first day up against three other speakers with very interesting topics.

For those interested, I’ve placed my slides on SlideShare:

All in all, it was a great conference attracting mostly local security and audit professionals. Given my tenure in the area, I ran into all kinds of familiar faces going back at least 10+ years. It was great to catch-up with all those of which I’ve crossed paths.

I was recently asked to help with putting together a logical sequence of steps to help a group go from no Single Sign-On strategy through the discussions to ultimately arrive at an executable SSO strategy. I’ve attached the presentation below in hopes that others might find it valuable.