Executive overview of upcoming conference on Identity & Access Management (Nov 9-11, 2009)

1. Gartner Identity & Access Management
Summit 2009
November 9 – 11 | San Diego, CA | Sheraton San Diego | gartner.com/us/iam
Agenda at a Glance
Sunday, November 8
4:00 p.m. Preregistration
Customizing Your IAM Program
IAM has emerged as core IT infrastructure for all enterprises,
Monday, November 9 but this emergence has happened faster in some verticals
7:00 a.m. Registration than others. To help you find the information most relevant
to your needs, this year’s summit is organized around tracks
8:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
that focus on three levels of IAM program maturity.
8:15 a.m. K1. General Session: The Death of IAM and the Loss of Identity Innocence—A Review of Program Maturity, Services-Driven Change and New Era Threats
9:00 a.m. K2. Keynote Session: To Be Announced
Tracks
A
Track A Track B Track C Track D
IAM Foundations: Building a Strategic Plan, In Transit: Deploying, Integrating, Reaching Goal: Increasing ROI and Analyst/User
Architecture, Controls, and Processes and Managing Next-Generation Objectives Roundtables IAM Foundations: Building a Strategic Plan,
Architecture, Controls, and Processes
10:00 a.m. A1. Identity and Access Management 101 B1. Comprehensive Approach to Password C1. Remote Access Security: Everything You AUR1. Identity and Content
Management and Single Sign-On Know Is Gone! Monitoring and Data Loss This track covers the basics for attendees
Prevention who are new to IAM and enterprises that are
11:15 a.m. Attendee Lunch and Solution Showcase Dessert Reception early in the IAM maturity cycle. A sound IAM
1:15 p.m. A2. Visioneering Your IAM Program B2. The Root to Happiness: Best Practices for C2. Identity-Aware Networking AUR2. Roles Life-Cycle
program starts with an understanding of how
Managing Superuser Privileges and Shared- Management and your organization currently handles users’
Account Passwords Entitlements Management digital identities and the importance it places
2:30 p.m. A3. Directories and Virtual Directories— B3. Case Study Presentation—To Be Announced C3. The Impact of Next-Generation Data Center AUR3. Enterprise on these as a business asset. The strategic
Foundations of Your IAM Infrastructure and Application Infrastructure on IAM— Authentication Methods plan, architecture, controls and processes
Virtualization and the Next Generation Application
Infrastructure all flow from this understanding. From
3:45 p.m. Solution Provider Sessions
governance to process to best practices, this
track lays the foundation.
B
5:00 p.m. K3. General Session: Best Practices for Vendor Selection: The Gartner IAM Magic Quadrant
6:00 p.m. Solution Showcase Reception In Transit: Deploying, Integrating,
and Managing
Tuesday, November 10 This track is for IAM practitioners who are
7:30 a.m. Registration well on the road to IAM maturity and need to
7:30 a.m. Birds of a Feather Networking Breakfast finish the job. IAM is a core IT infrastructure
8:30 a.m. A4. Why Your IAM Project Is Doomed to Failure B4. Consumer Authentication C4. Identity Intelligence: Using Security Information AUR4. Everything Single
that touches every part of the business. This
and Event Management Sign-On track focuses on deploying, integrating and
9:45 a.m. Solution Provider Sessions
managing the key technologies, such as user
provisioning and enterprise single sign-on, that
11:00 a.m. A5. Envisioning Enterprise Identity Verification— B5. Making IAM Whole—Content, Context, and C5. Claims, Open ID, Open Authentication, AUR5. Directory,
Strategy and Architecture Policy Classification—Frontiers in Identity Intelligence and Open Source, Open Wide! Get Past the Hype Metadirectory and Virtual make significant contributions to the modern
Entitlement Administration and Understand When and Why New Identity Directory Implementation IAM infrastructure.
C
Architectures Will Work for You
12:00 p.m. Attendee Lunch and Solution Showcase Dessert Reception Reaching Goal: Increasing ROI
2:00 p.m. A6. Introduction to Governance Risk, Compliance B6. Case Study Presentation—To Be Announced C6. IAM in the Cloud—Identity Services AUR6. Consumer
and Next-Generation Objectives
and IAM Authentication and Fraud This track focuses on enterprises that have
Prevention reached a high level of maturity in their IAM
3:15 p.m. Solution Provider Sessions programs, and now strive for operational
4:30 p.m. K4. General Session: The Pundits Panel
excellence. Your IAM program must remain
innovative and agile. You can embrace new
Wednesday, November 11 IAM technologies, such as role life-cycle
7:00 a.m. Registration management, that allow you to be more
efficient or enable IAM process optimization.
7:00 a.m. Breakfast With the Analysts
We’ll look at the value of technologies that
8:00 a.m. A7. Case Study Presentation—To Be Announced B7. Envisioning Enterprise Identity Verification C7. Microsoft SharePoint Security AUR7. Identity Aware are not traditionally considered to be part of
(Technology Selection) Networking
IAM but are adjacent to or have a relationship
9:15 a.m. Solution Provider Sessions
with it, such as data loss prevention, security,
10:00 a.m. A8. Case Study Presentation—To Be Announced B8. Secure Remote Access for Non-Securable C8. IAM, Content Monitoring and Data Loss AUR8. User Provisioning— information and event management, and
People: Access Protection In an Outsourced, Prevention What Works, What Doesn’t
Contracted, Partnered World network access control.
11:15 a.m. K6. Closing Session: Stump the Analysts
12:00 p.m. Conference Wrap-Up/Adjournment
Agenda as of July 16, 2009, and subject to change. Visit gartner.com/us/iam for updates.
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Platinum Ten reasons you need to attend this year:
1 Optimize costs and improve efficiency.
IAM budgets, like overall security and IT budgets, are facing intense scrutiny. However, Conference highlights
IAM remains an essential concern, and is key to meeting the more rigorous governance, • More than 25 sessions
compliance and risk management requirements that are sure to emerge from this crisis.
• One-on-one meetings with a Gartner analyst
Discover the latest cost-saving and cost-optimizing strategies, plus learn about new
metrics to quantify the IAM contribution. • Dozens of top solution providers
• Analyst-moderated roundtable discussions
2 Learn how to articulate the business value of IAM.
Enterprise stakeholders need to understand the value of IAM as part of an effective
information security communications program. Be prepared to defend yourself and
• End-user case study presentations
Silver your organization by documenting the business case and decision-making process Key topics
associated with creative leveraging of existing resources to achieve IAM-related goals.
Aladdin Knowledge Cyber-Ark Software • User provisioning
Systems
Authentify
Deloitte
Entrust, Inc. 3 Get an intensive education at an excellent value.
The IAM professional’s role may vary widely depending on enterprise-specific factors and
can include the IAM leader, architect, implementer or engineer, operations specialist or
• Single sign-on
• Password management
Beta Systems Software Hitachi ID Systems, Inc. • IAM as a service
of North America, Inc. business/IAM liaison. No matter what role you play, this event will provide you with the
N8 Identity knowledge and tools to sharpen your IAM program. • User-centric identity
Cisco Systems
Passlogix • Role management
4
Courion Benefit from your peers’ experiences.
Symark International Learn from your peers via networking, roundtable discussions, case studies and • Fine-grained authorization
analyst consultations. • IAM governance
Sponsorship opportunities
• IAM project management
Stephen Gibertoni (A – G)
Senior Account Manager, Events 5 Identify your next steps.
From foundations to finishing touches, each of three tracks addresses key priorities at
every stage of IAM program development.
• IAM for the cloud
+1 203 316 6360 • IAM and virtualization
stephen.gibertoni@gartner.com
David Calabrese (H – R)
Account Manager, Events
6 Streamline vendor research.
Meet knowledgeable experts from relevant vendors. Get your questions answered in a
down-to-business setting.
• Trusted portable personalities
+1 203 316 6298 Quantify your ROI
7
david.calabrese@gartner.com Leverage analyst expertise. Today’s professional is expected to increase
Hear about the latest research, models and insight. Interact with analysts in Q&As, security and organizational efficiency quickly
David Sorkin (S – Z)
private consultations and Analyst/User Roundtables. and on highly constrained budgets. And
Senior Account Manager, Events
+1 203 316 3561 attending this event—or any event—will require
david.sorkin@gartner.com
8 Understand where the trends are taking us.
The IAM Magic Quadrant and MarketScope megasession give you a complete picture
of the most asked-about IAM markets and what they mean to your business.
quantifying the ROI of attending. Download the
Gartner Justification Kit to help justify the value
you’ll bring home gartner.com/us/iam.
Feedback from last year
• “Good high-level exposure to analyst thoughts
and vendors in the space. Good mix of strategic
9 Take home immediately actionable advice.
The IAM professional’s role is becoming more strategic and business-related, and less
technical and operational. This year’s event will tell you how to succeed at this new
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• “Gave me good overview of state of the art in IAM. resolve issues beyond those for which they were originally purchased, and much more.
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Keynotes, scenarios and end-user case studies offer fresh perspectives and big-
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• “Great event that covers both the mature and that is rich in relevant expertise.
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