Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit

Ant Allan, Ph.D., is a research vice president in Gartner Research. He is a core member of the identity and access management (IAM) research community and specializes in IAM program management and in key "authentication" and related "administration" technologies, processes and best practices.

Joe Anthony is the Director of Security, Risk and Compliance Product Management at IBM. He is responsible for the product strategy of IBM's comprehensive portfolio in identity and access management, data center and threat protection security. Mr. Anthony works with key customers and partners around the world that use IBM's security offerings. He joined IBM in 1984 as an engineer in the Networking Hardware Division. He has held various technical and management positions in hardware development, software development and product management.

Rick J. Bennett currently serves as the Chief Information Officer at T.D. Williamson based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. T.D. Williamson is an international pipeline integrity, services and manufacturing company with 1600 employees located in 68 locations within 37 countries around the world. Rick’s responsibilities include the leadership of the Applications Systems, Infrastructure Services and Telecommunications teams serving the TDW organization. His past professional achievements include Information Technology leadership positions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Blakely Crop Hail Insurance, National Farmers Organization, Taylor Ball Construction Management and The Principal Financial Group. He is the founding member of the Management Information Systems Association (MISA) at Western Illinois University where he is a 1992 graduate. Early in his career he served in the United States Navy on the USS Waddell DDG-24 as an Interior Communications Electrician. Since the decommissioning of the warship in 1992, he formed the USS Waddell DDG-24 Association. A husband and father of three, Bennett also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of Eastern Oklahoma and the Deans Council for Northeastern State University College of Business and Technology.

Adam Bosnian is Executive Vice President Americas and Corporate Development at Cyber-Ark Software. He has more than 20 years of experience in defining and implementing successful security strategies for customers that need to better manage insider and external, persistent threats, while meeting goals associated with security, compliance and reliability. Bosnian specializes in the area of privileged identity, account and session management, and has spoken on the subject extensively at Gartner, ISSA/ISACA and DGI Cyber-Security events. Previously, Bosnian held a range of executive sales and marketing roles at emerging growth technology organizations.

F. Christian Byrnes is a managing vice president in Gartner. His team is distributed across the globe and covers the management of risk-related programs such as Information Security, Business Continuity, Privacy and Compliance. In addition, he consults with leading organizations worldwide on technology direction, security trends and best practices.

Perry Carpenter is a research director in the secure business enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. His primary focus is on identity and access management (IAM), data privacy, and the information security organization.

Mr. Cicchitto has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering and corporate management. He has extensive experience in software development, working as a lead architect for Pacific Bell and a senior architect for Chevron. In 1997 he founded Avatier to solve complex password reset, user provisioning and compliance management problems. Under his leadership, Avatier has grown to be a market leader in identity management. Mr. Cicchitto holds a BS degree in computer science from the University of North Texas.

Dr. Eric Cole is an industry-recognized security expert with over 20 years of hands-on experience. Cole currently performs leading-edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Cole has experience in information technology with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Cole has a master's degree in computer science from NYIT and a doctorate from Pace University with a concentration in information security. Dr. Cole is the author of several books, including Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Site, Network Security Bible, and Insider Threat. He is the inventor of over 20 patents and is a researcher, writer, and speaker. He is also a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President and several executive advisory boards. Dr. Cole is founder of Secure Anchor Consulting in which he provides state of the art security services and expert witness work. He also served as CTO of McAfee and Chief Scientist for Lockheed Martin. Cole is actively involved with the SANS Technology Institute (STI) and SANS working with students, teaching, and maintaining and developing courseware. He is a SANS faculty fellow and course author.

Mr. Dagnall is a Senior Solutions Consultant with Fischer International, with 6 years of Identity & Access Management experience, including 5 years of implementing and supporting Identity Managements solutions. He is a veteran of multiple IAM implementations from 5,000 to 2 million users and accounts. "My goal is to make contributions that have a positive effect on the Identity & Access Management industry (both the user community and the provider community), and to the security community at large.

Mark Diodati is a research vice president with Gartner's IT Professionals Research service. He provides guidance on a diversity of topics, including identity in the cloud, authentication, federation, directory services, provisioning, identity services, Active Directory interoperability, Web access management, single sign-on and physical-logical convergence. His client interactions have made him one of the most sought-after analysts in the service. He has contributed to many media organizations, including The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, NBC News, Forbes Magazine, CIO Magazine and The Boston Globe.

Irma Fabular is a senior managing partner with Gartner Consulting. She leads the North America Consulting industry practices for education, academic medical centers and healthcare providers. Ms. Fabular has more than 25 years of experience in various aspects of information technology strategic planning, acquisition, implementation and project management. She has led many consulting engagements focused on optimizing the contributions of information technology solutions and resources to organizational performance and transformation. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, governance, IT services management, application software and integration service procurement, portfolio management, project and program office development, and independent verification and validation. Ms. Fabular has worked with several large organizations in education, healthcare, government and other nonprofit industries.

Joseph Feiman, Ph.D., is a research vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research. Mr. Feiman focuses on applications' security: technologies and methodologies enabling secure software life cycle, data privacy, security of large systems and packaged applications, legacies, SOA, Web 2.0, cloud computing security, and security as a service.

Ian Glazer is a research vice president and the agenda manager on the GTP Identity and Privacy Strategies team. He leads IdPS' coverage of identity and access governance and privacy. Topics within these two main areas include: access certification, entitlement management, role management, privacy practices, consumer privacy, and privacy and social media. Other topics he covers include user provisioning, authorization, identity data quality and national identity programs.

Keith Gordon is the SVP - Security, Fraud and Enrollment Executive at Bank of America for Online and Mobile Channels. He develops and manages the authentication and security strategies and product development for consumer online and mobile banking. His team's responsibilities include product management for online & mobile banking authentication, authorization, privacy and security customer education, identity management, domain management and enrollment. Gordon also manages the e-mail security strategy and acts as an expert on online threats and fraud at the enterprise level. Gordon serves on the board of directors at the National Cyber Security Alliance. Previous to his current role, he was the Technology Executive in the Consumer Channel Technologies group focusing on Technology Risk, Compliance, Security & Fraud. His teams led the efforts to define and build the enterprise standards for both application security and compliance. He has been active in the development of Bank of America’s Enterprise Cyber Security strategy.

Doron Grinstein is a serial inventor who specializes in cloud computing, massively parallel computation problems and identity and access management. After several years at the Walt Disney Company where Doron designed large scale systems, he founded BiTKOO with a team of ex-Disney software artisans to transform how security and identity are incorporated into systems. BiTKOO has experienced very strong growth acquiring the status of “THE Go-To” company in identity and access management, and according to industry analysts, BiTKOO has by far the largest number of customers in the entitlement management market.

John is currently Director of Business Unit Strategy for Security solutions at CA Technologies. He leads the definition of the CA Security vision and evaluation of new portfolio growth opportunities. John has been working in the security space for 15 years and has focused on working with large enterprises to leverage innovative Identity and Access Management to achieve more agile and collaborative, yet secure, business interactions. John has been working with CA Technologies for 8 years, holding previous roles in Product Management and Technical Sales. Prior to CA, John founded and managed a venture funded SaaS company providing performance monitoring for cloud applications. Earlier, John managed a Solutions Engineering and Security teams at Internet services provider UUNET and consulting firm Ernst & Young, LLC. John holds an MBA from the KATZ School of Business at University of Pittsburgh and a BS in Information Systems from Virginia Tech.

Daniel Headrick is the Senior Enterprise Security Architect for Identity Services at GE where he is responsible for the enterprise security architecture and strategy of Identity & Access Management (IAM). Daniel has worked with GE for 11 years, eight of which have been focused within IAM technologies. Operating across multiple GE lines of business such as Transportation, Aviation, Energy and Corporate, he has served as Chief Designer and Architecture Leader of the IAM space including SSO, identity federation, directory services, identity management, strong authentication and highly privileged account management.

Gregg Kreizman is a research director on Gartner's Information Security and Privacy team. Mr. Kreizman covers single sign-on, password management, identity federation, user-centric identity, electronic signature, public-key infrastructure and general identity and access management topics.

Avivah Litan is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. Her area of expertise includes fraud detection and prevention applications, authentication, adaptive access management, identity proofing, identity theft, and other areas of information security and risk. She also covers the PCI compliance program and the security aspects of payment systems.

Dr. Donald McMillan graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. In his more than 20 years in the high tech world he has worked at IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and VLSI Technologies. While at Bell Laboratories, he was a member the team that developed the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor. During his 6 years at VLSI he designed more than 50 Standard and ASIC Designs many of which are still out there today. Currently, Don specializes in Heuristic Risk Management. He has written the book "Tomorrow is Not What It Used to Be" to be released this fall.

Manuel Moreno is Director of Research for the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office, Service Integration Branch. He has pioneered the use of analytics and data mining for fraud detection in public assistance programs in Los Angeles County, and is leading a major effort to develop integrated data systems to improve the use of data for policy research. In 2010, he was recognized by Computerworld magazine as one of the 100 Premier IT Leaders in the nation. He is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Intelligence for Social Policy, an initiative funded by the MacArthur Foundation

Mark Nicolett is a vice president in Gartner Research. His research in the security, risk and compliance area focuses on security information and event management, database activity monitoring, vulnerability management, configuration audit, and IT governance risk and compliance management.

Eric Ouellet is a vice president in Gartner, where he is responsible for research activities and content delivery relating to data loss prevention (DLP); enterprise digital rights management (EDRM); PKI/PKO: Certificate Authorities (CA); database, application and storage encryption; encrypted e-mail; and virtualization and risk management.

Earl Perkins is a research vice president in the Security and Privacy team at Gartner. His focus areas include: (1) identity and access management (IAM), including user provisioning, identity and access governance (IAG), and entitlement management; (2) IAM services, including consulting, integration, managed services, and IAM in cloud computing; (3) IAM strategy, markets and futures; and (4) IT and operational technology (OT) security.

Uri Rivner has been fighting cyber security threats for over ten years. He works closely with major corporations on developing long term defense strategies against emerging threats, and is responsible at RSA for moving Cybercrime-fighting innovations from concept to reality. He was a key player in the development of many of the anti-Cybercrime technologies now used by thousands of organizations worldwide. Rivner joined RSA through the acquisition of anti-fraud company Cyota, where he gained a deep perspective on international cyber fraud and threats. He writes blogs at Finextra and RSA Speaking of Security, and speaks in many international conferences.

Jonathan has been a senior member of Quest’s team since 1999. Working with both the security and performance management product lines, he has designed, architected, and implemented solutions for the largest and smallest customers Quest has. When the Quest One Identity Solution was launched, Jonathan took the position as its chief evangelist. Now he directs all business development efforts for the growing IAM solution, working with partners, channels and building programs to raise awareness.

Mr. Sardar serves as the Deputy Chief Information Officer of the FERC, having the responsibility of providing strategic direction for and managing the implementation of information technology. He joined the FERC in 2008, prior to which he was at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) with oversight responsibility for technology efforts at several major government agencies including Department of Education, Department of Energy and Dept. of Transportation. Mr. Sardar spent over 15 years consulting in private industry focusing on technology providers, pharmaceuticals, telecom companies, financial institutions and state/local governments. Mr. Sardar has held management positions at large companies as well as several internet start-ups.

Kevin Schmitt is the Chief Information Security Officer for Molson Coors. Since joining the company in 2002, Schmitt has seen the company through two mergers and has been responsible for unifying IT Security systems and personnel through both mergers. Schmitt has also led the organization through the Sarbanes Oxley IT effort, PCI strategy and remediation efforts and is currently leading the organization through a three year strategic initiative to raise the organization’s Security Maturity Score. In addition to the Security Maturity Score, Schmitt is now focused on implementing Lighthouse Gateway, a cloud-based identity and access management solution across its environment of 7,000 global employees. As CISO at Molson Coors, Schmitt is a practiced public speaker – often speaking to the challenges, solutions, growth and successes his department and company has had during his tenure with Molson Coors. Earlier this year Mr. Schmitt delivered a customer presentation at IBM’s Pulse Conference on implementing an IAM solution in the cloud via Lighthouse Gateway.

Tom Scholtz is a research vice president in Gartner, where he advises clients on security management strategies, technologies, and trends, and is an acknowledged authority on information security policy design, security organizational dynamics, and security management processes. Based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Scholtz is a regular presenter at European industry events.

Prior to founding Hitachi ID Systems in 1992, Idan provided network security consulting services to large organizations such as Shell, Amoco, BP Canada and Talisman Energy. Idan holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is in demand as a speaker for global security conferences, and was featured most recently at the European Identity Conference in Munich, SC World Congress in New York and SecureWorld Expo in Boston.

A professor, author, consultant and researcher, Sherry Turkle has spent the last 20 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She is the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts. One of the few researchers in this field, Sherry offers a unique perspective on meaning and mechanisms – on humans and technology and social interaction. Sherry's latest book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, describes technology's influence on new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude. Sherry is the author of several books including Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. She is the editor of Evocative Objects: Thinking With Things, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices. Profiles of Sherry have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.

Ray Wagner, Ph.D., is managing vice president of the secure business enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. Mr. Wagner focuses on a wide range of security issues, including identity and access management, Web services security, public-key infrastructures, digital rights management, the information security organization, and information security issues within emerging technologies.

Andrew Walls is a research director in Gartner Research, where he specializes in information security practices, tools and markets in social media, enterprise governance, awareness/communications, directories, investigations and security program management. Security practices and markets in the Asia/Pacific region are also a focus of his research agenda.

Alice Wang is a director with Gartner Consulting. Ms. Wang is focused on IT strategy, architecture, and optimization, specializing in the areas of identity and access management, security and risk management, governance, and operations and process improvement. She is currently exploring the identity and security risks associated with social media and social networking (Enterprise 2.0), in collaboration with Burton Group analysts, its impact on innovation for the enterprise and consumer markets, as well as cloud computing as it relates to identity and security. With more than 10 years of experience, Ms. Wang has assisted Fortune 500, higher education, and federal, state, and local government clients with designing and implementing large-scale IT projects. Ms. Wang is a frequent speaker at conferences and professional organization meetings worldwide, has authored numerous white papers, and is ITIL Foundation, Java Programmer, and Solaris Systems Administrator certified.

Branden Williams is a senior Information Risk/Security professional with over 15 years of experience in technology and information security, and a formidable background in the majority of the technologies that drive today's businesses. From digging into technical requirements of various solutions to recommending compensating controls for compliance saving companies over $250 million, he has practical experience working with global clients. Currently, he is the global CTO of Marketing for RSA. Mr. Williams holds a BBA from the University of Texas, Arlington, and an MBA in Supply Chain Management from the University of Dallas, Graduate School of Management and is a current CISSP, and CISM. He recently served several years as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Dallas's Graduate School of Management where he taught in their NSA Certified Information Assurance program.

As Chief Security Officer and Executive Vice-President of Technology and Operations Security for Zions Bancorporation, Mr. Wood oversees Fraud, Security Analytics and Forensics, Information Security, Physical Security, Corporate Investigations, Technology and Operations Risk, and Business Resiliency objectives for eight banks in eight high growth Western markets. As a veteran Security and Information Technology professional Mr. Wood is a frequent speaker on various security and fraud topics. Mr. Wood has over 15 years of hands-on experience in an Information Technology, Security, and Risk capacity. He has served in multiple leadership and staff capacities throughout his career giving Mr. Wood a unique blend of skills combining real-world business and technology experience with a keen understanding of security and risk management. Mr. Wood holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Weber State University and an MBA from the University of Utah.

Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner. His primary coverage area is network security.