Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA
2009 TEC starts in a week (20090313)
Taking place just a few miles from Las Vegas, Nevada, the pre-conference workshops of The Experts Conference (TEC) are on Sunday March 22nd, with the directory and identity track sessions kicking off with a keynote on the morning of Monday, March 23rd. During the keynote I'll cover Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" on behalf of the product team, Nathan Muggli on AD and Stuart Kwan on "Geneva".
Immediately afterward, at 10:30 it's End-to-End Access Control with ILM "2", in which I show a brief demo of automatically provisioning users with the correct edge, content, network and application access upon organizational restructuring, and then, most importantly, I explain how it's done.
Then after lunch I join Andreas Kjellman (who presented last year) on stage for ... the Double Bullet Catch!
No not really, that's already covered elsewhere. Much more useful for technology deployments, it's a session on Human Behavior: The Other 90% of the Problem.
Providing your user community the tools to easily manage their own passwords and distribution lists should remove a huge administrative burden from your IT staff. But putting the tools in place is not the same as having your users put them to use. In this session the ILM product team will discuss the challenges of self-service technology, approaches to self-service deployment, some of the surprising user behaviors that inhibit the use of self-service technologies and how to overcome them. We will also cover the future possibilities of 'user-centric' identity and its impact on identity management.
The next day Andreas will cover ILM "2" from an IT Pro's Perspective, and then there's a chalktalk with the product team.