Casablanca - USI 2010 Session

Open

Indentities management and access in the clouds

Information systems openness dynamics initiated by the development of partnerships customer/provider reveal new growing users populations and hardly controlled by support services of the company. Traditional models of Identity Management, focused on the data consolidation are thus more and more manhandled.

In parallel, current trend promoting externalization and backed-up by the advent of Cloud Computing increases Infomation System bursting. In this context, mecanisms and protocols usually used until now, show their limits vs. interoperability.

Those two big phenomenons modify deeply Information systems borders, which spread nowadays over multiple federate trust circles, far away from the reassuring walls of a company. Who is today able to draw the contours of its Information System?

A partnership producer/distributor, online applications (GoogleApps, SalesForce...), a solution hosted on the Amazon cloud, the whole logged on your intern company directory? Through real examples, we invite us to discover open GDI architectures.