SSO Summit Wrap Up
More notes from SSO Summit - to recap I can't stress enough how a 50-200 person conference comprised of around 50-60% enterprise folk (instead of just vendors and *cough* consultants) is ideal. Real, in depth conversations instead of just "where is the party" a la RSA. Also, this conference has a laser focus on SSO, so all 150 of us are able to look through the prism from lots of angles.
Dave Kearns has serious moderator skillz.
You can tell all the Mac users because they have to have their laptops plugged in at all times (Mr. Jobs paging Mr. Clayton Christensen)
Eve Maler can really sing
One of the prettiest drives through Colorado is here
I did my presentation on Security Token Servers today. Bob Brandt from 3M spoke on Federation at 3M, its quite interesting to think about the mix of all these technologies the same way 3M's products are composed from a grid of technologies. I see STS playing role here, enabling us to get interop across multiple token types. Bob also mentioned that the business doesn't _ask_ for SSO any more; they expect it. He mentioned (and I have seen the same) much greater SAML adoption and awareness by customers and partners. And I quite liked his quote - "If you are a SAAS vendors and you are not supporting SAML you won't be in business very long."
Kent Beck says programs are not things, they are shadows of communities. If you look at a big vendors' IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT SUITE - its not a cohesive product so much as a shadow of the big vendors' Visio org chart. Ping's SSO community is fast, light and Ninja; SSO functionality enabling real pros to get stuff done for real use cases.
Its a lot of fun to be at a 1.0 conference, I am pretty sure this will be 2x-3x next year.
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