{"id":82,"date":"2010-05-25T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:07:30","slug":"security-identity-and-business-drivers-at-eic-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/security-identity-and-business-drivers-at-eic-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Security, Identity, and Business Drivers at EIC 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this month I attended the European Identity Conference<\/a> in Munich. The conference is put together by Kuppinger Cole + Partner<\/a> and they do a great job. As I’ve posted before<\/a> each year it gets better, and this year was no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 This year there were great sessions<\/a> with cutting edge content, really good food and beer, and vibrant interaction between vendors and customers<\/a>. It all added up to a very productive week. Oh, and there was really good beer.<\/p>\n

Last year, Martin Kuppinger<\/a> and I led a workshop on cloud computing<\/a>, and we did it again this year<\/a> much more in depth \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but that’s another post. This year, there was a whole content track devoted to the cloud. As I see it, cloud computing has evolved to become just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the cloud\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and is a set of technologies and business models which have the requisite force to drive adoption of identity-based security.\u00c2\u00a0 So combining an identity conference<\/a> with a cloud conference<\/a> is a Very Good Idea.<\/p>\n

I gave a keynote<\/a> in the Cloud 2010 track<\/a>. KCP were kind enough to post the video of the session<\/a> . You can also download the presentation<\/a>. One advantage of my occasionally-derided \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wall of Words\u00e2\u20ac\u009d presentation style is that you can easily get the main points by scanning through the presentation. I took all the photos<\/a> in the presentation in Munich a few days before the session, which made it more relevant and fun for me.<\/p>\n

The concepts in the presentation have emerged in the last year while working on Novell’s Cloud Security Service<\/a> . Supporting insights and statistics came from a survey initiated by our own Anita Moorthy<\/a>. Basically the presentation covers how business drivers affect the security needs of enterprises, SaaS vendors and cloud providers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here’s a brief overview.<\/p>\n

A survey of some current market forces and players:<\/p>\n