Ensuring trusted access to your network and data has never been more challenging. The age of mobile computing and the increasingly remote, distributed workforce means there are many "untrustworthy" users and devices trying to access the network every day. These risks are intensified as information becomes accessible through multiple channels. Not just desktops and laptops but PDAs, cell phones, kiosks at cybercafés and other public places. And with the demands of open network architectures, the authentication and access control schemas of yesterday won't cut it. So where can you turn for help?

Gain FREE admission to Intelligent Access: Advanced Authentication and Authorization and discover how to employ more robust, automated, scaleable and granular identity and access management systems and policies that will tighten controls over who has access to what, and under what circumstances. Attend and benefit from:

• Security ROI through automated password controls, advances in platform-based directory services and authorization systems, and how to choose from the many two-factor authentication options
• Options for rights provisioning/de-provisioning
• Reduced sign-on, WebSSO and EnterpriseSSO
• "Circles of Trust" through federated identity management
• IAM's role in regulatory compliance
• Best practices for access control through active directory
• And more

Session 1: Leading topics in identity management
Authentication is just one, albeit very important, component of a comprehensive identity management infrastructure. In this session, Burton Group analysts discuss the latest trends and issues in major identity management technologies, such as:

• User provisioning: automating account management
• The resurgence of enterprise SSO: One way to simplify the user environment
• Federation: standards and state of adoption
• Who, what, where, when, how and why: The business of authorization
• LDAP, active directory, and virtual directories: The push and pull of identity data

• Passwords: Alive or dead?
• One-time passwords: The cat with nine lives
• Smart cards: Swiss Army Knives?
• PKI: Don't call it a comeback!
• Biometrics: Sweet spots and best use cases
• Identity and stronger authentication: current integration points and challenges
• Authentication best practices and lifecycle management: avoiding the pitfalls
• The rise of consumer authentication
• Windows and stronger authentication: what is possible, and what is not?

Session 4: Case study - Citizens Financial Group's long journey to solving the identity crisis

It sounds like a very straightforward proposition, providing the right people with the right access at the right time. However, information security managers tell you that it's not that simple. Today's businesses are complex, ever-changing and rapidly expanding. Many companies are looking to deploy provisioning and role-based access-control solutions to gain new efficiencies and comply with key regulations.

In this session, you hear from someone who's done it. David Sherry, vice president of enterprise information security for Citizens Financial Group, is responsible for identity and access governance for more than 125,000 computer accounts and 30,000 employees across 30 states. He shows you how the $160 billion enterprise took a phased approach to its access control rollout. You gain insight into both positive and negative lessons-learned from their project and as well as:

• 3 methodologies in developing role-based access
• Essential insights into the implementation process, vendor landscape and the need for enterprise framework and governance
• How limited initial-day provisioning can put a positive spotlight on the identity and access function
• The need to consider identity management as a lifestyle more than a solution

Register online to gain FREE admission or call Brian DiGeronimo at 508-621-5532 to reserve your seat today.

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