CTO Scott Morrison to Speak on Securely Extending Enterprise Identity Into Cloud
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Layer 7 Technologies, the leader in Gateways for service-oriented integration, cloud connectivity and Web-to-mobile information sharing, today announced that Scott Morrison, CTO and chief architect, will be delivering a presentation at Cloud Expo East 2011 on Wednesday, June 8, in New York City. His talk will investigate why identity is different in the cloud. Attendees will learn best practices in extending existing enterprise identity assets beyond the firewall and out into new cloud environments, and how to use OAuth to securely federate identities between clouds and on-premise computing.
Who: Scott Morrison, CTO and chief architect at Layer 7 Technologies
What: "Who Am I in the Cloud? How to Extend Enterprise Identity into the Cloud"
When: 3:15 - 4:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Where: Cloud Expo East 2011, New York, NY at the Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th St.
Layer 7 will be exhibiting at Cloud Expo East in booth #313. Mr. Morrison will be available to discuss enterprise-scale API management; PCI and FIPS-grade security; and cloud brokers, specifically their ability to protect cloud users against cloud failures like Amazon's.
Layer 7 will host an API Management demo in the Cloud Expo Demo Theatre on Tuesday, June 7 from 11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. The company will also run daily demos in its booth, #313, during the show.
For more information about the Cloud Expo East agenda, please visit: http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/event/schedule
About Scott Morrison
Scott Morrison is the CTO and chief architect at Layer 7 Technologies, providing the visionary innovation and technical direction for the company. He has extensive technical and scientific experience in a number of industries and universities, including senior architect positions at IBM. He is one of the four co-editors for the WS-I Basic Security Profile. Scott is a much sought-after author and speaker. He has published more than 50 book chapters, magazine articles and papers in medical, physics and engineering journals and is co-author of the university textbook "Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications," published by Springer-Verlag. Scott has spoken at more than 70 shows around the world, including InfoWorld, JavaOne, GigaOm STRUCTURE, SOA World, Gartner and IDC conferences. Follow him on Twitter at @kscottmorrison.
About Layer 7 Technologies
Layer 7 Technologies helps organizations secure and govern integrations that span the Internet and cloud. Through its award-winning line of SecureSpan SOA Gateways and CloudSpan Cloud Brokers, Layer 7 gives enterprises the ability to control identity, data security, SLA and visibility requirements for sharing application data and functionality across organizational boundaries. With more than 100 customers spanning six continents, Layer 7 supports the most demanding commercial and government organizations. Layer 7 solutions are FIPS compliant, STIG vulnerability tested and have met Common Criteria EAL4+ security assurance. For more information, please visit www.layer7tech.com, email us at info@layer7tech.com or follow us on Twitter at @layer7.
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