From Tuesday to Thursday, I had the privilege of attending the Cloud Identity Summit (managed by Ping Identity). My presentation on the Oasis IDCloud Technical Committee was on Thursday.
There were many excellent presentations from other industry experts from companies such as PayPal, Salesforce, Google and Microsoft.
Chuck Mortimore of Salesforce had an excellent presentation where in he stressed the need for standards to be simple, short and ready to implement.
His presentation is here.
Hopefully, the CIS site should soon host the presentation slides.
I am hoping for more standards in auditing (hopefully, cloudaudit.org) and provisioning to help migration to the cloud.
Kudos to Andre Durand, Patrick Harding and the Ping family for an excellent conference at Keystone, CO.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
PicketLink 1.0.3.final Released
With great pleasure, I announce the availability of PicketLink v1.0.3.final.
More information can be had from this article. (<== HERE)
Some of the new features included:
Visit the project page at: Project PicketLink.
More information can be had from this article. (<== HERE)
Some of the new features included:
- The STS has failover capabilities in the client code.
- The STS stores the canceled ids in a database (useful in a clustered environment).
- Password masking capabilities for the configuration files.
Visit the project page at: Project PicketLink.
Monday, May 24, 2010
US Public Sector Cloud Computing
Last week, I had the privilege of listening to a presentation by Vivek Kundra, US Federal CIO at the US Department of Commerce in Washington DC. I was attending the NIST Cloud Workshop and Forum.
Vivek talked about how the US government tech was 10 years behind the curve and his initial days as the CIO. He basically called for action from NIST and the community to define standards for cloud computing to increase the adoption.
His presentation is available as a CIO report at State of Public Sector Cloud Computing.
The foremost requirement for cloud adoption aired at the workshop was "security". No surprises there.
During the 12+ months reign as the CIO, Vivek has done two things:
a) Jumpstarted Cloud Computing as a paradigm for the government sector. This in turn has energized cloud computing adoption.
b) Placed the emphasis on Identity Management which rejuvenated the ailing OpenId community. (Yeah, the regular LOA1 type work).
I did not have the privilege of meeting Vivek in person.
Vivek talked about how the US government tech was 10 years behind the curve and his initial days as the CIO. He basically called for action from NIST and the community to define standards for cloud computing to increase the adoption.
His presentation is available as a CIO report at State of Public Sector Cloud Computing.
The foremost requirement for cloud adoption aired at the workshop was "security". No surprises there.
During the 12+ months reign as the CIO, Vivek has done two things:
a) Jumpstarted Cloud Computing as a paradigm for the government sector. This in turn has energized cloud computing adoption.
b) Placed the emphasis on Identity Management which rejuvenated the ailing OpenId community. (Yeah, the regular LOA1 type work).
I did not have the privilege of meeting Vivek in person.
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