Gartner Announces the Identity & Access Management Summit 2009

November 9-11, 2009 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, San Diego, CA

STAMFORD, Conn., September 28, 2009 — 

Breaches of identity and access management (IAM) lead to billions of dollars of losses each year. The Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit is designed to help organizations address the growing exposure that IAM inefficiencies and lapses create.

This forum will get to the heart of the most important issues in IAM delivered in more than 40 in-depth sessions, including how to:

• Define, measure, integrate and mature IAM processes in your organization.
• Develop a long-term vision and plan for IAM that assesses and responds to business needs and includes effective IAM governance and regulatory compliance.
• Educate enterprise stakeholders about the security, risk management and direct business value of IAM initiatives.
• Accommodate and leverage SaaS, cloud offerings and other emerging trends.
• Optimize IAM expenditures, recognizing that IAM represents not only a target for cost cutting but also an opportunity to realize cost savings.

Keynotes:
*Bruce Schneier, Author & Chief Security Technology Officer, BT: The Intersection of Identity, Privacy, and Security

*Eric Sachs, Senior Product Manager, Google:Google Case Study: Interesting Lessons From Google’s IAM Initiatives For Cloud-based Applications

*Owen Unangst, Director, Innovative and Operational Architecture, USDA, Office of the CIO: US Department of Agriculture Case Study:USDA’s Identity and Access Management: Critical Success Factors to “Getting it Done”

*Andy Weeks, Manager, Risk and Compliance Team, Humana:Humana Case Study: How to Balance IAM Objectives to Deliver Real Value

*Angela Weinman, Senior Business Leader of Global Information Security, Visa, Inc.:Visa Case Study: Are we done yet? Balancing cost and risk using a layered security approach to IAM

*The Pundits Panel featuring J. Trent Adams, Technologist, Product Strategist and Futurist; Dave Kearns, Writer, Analyst and Consultant; Peter Williams, Chief Information Security Officer, Rapatoni

*The Death of IAM and the Loss of Identity Innocence — A Review of Program Maturity, Services-Driven Change, and New Era Threats: Earl Perkins, Gartner Research VP

*Best Practices for Vendor Selection - The Gartner IAM Magic Quadrant

*Stump the Analysts!: Gartner Analysts on Stage to Answer the Really Difficult IAM Questions

For complete event details, please visit the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit Web site at www.gartner.com/us/iam.

Get connected with other IAM professionals by joining the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit LinkedIn Group at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1982475&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=%2Eana_1982475_1250080420809_3_1.

More than 20 companies will be sponsors exhibiting at the conference. A listing of Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit sponsors is available under the Solutions Showcase page at http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=838920&tab=soln_showcase#current.

Additional companies interested in participating as a Conference Sponsor should contact Steve Gibertoni at stephen.gibertoni@gartner.com..

Members of the media can register for the event by contacting Christy Pettey at christy.pettey@gartner.com.

 

Contact:


Christy Pettey
Gartner
+1 408 468 8312
christy.pettey@gartner.com


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