The recent Sony incident was another wake up call for website owners about the problems with passwords as discussed in the recent OIDF blog post. One of the purposes of the OpenID Foundation blog is to help identify events that website owners can attend to learn more about alternatives to passwords.
There was one such event, called the Cloud Identity Summit, earlier this year that was so popular that a smaller version of the event is being run in four cities in the next few weeks.
• 10/24/11 New York, NY
• 10/25/11 Washington, DC
• 11/2/11 Chicago, IL
• 11/3/11 San Francisco, CA
You can learn more or register to attend at www.cloudidentitysummit.com
The event will cover a number of topics that the OpenID Foundation is involved with including:
• Emerging standards such as OpenID Connect and its relation to OAuth
• User friendly ways to eliminate passwords using the Account Chooser technique
• Adoption of cloud identity standards in enterprise and citizen-government scenarios
If you’re a security architect, IT manager, SaaS product manager, eBusiness leader, CSO, CTO, or CIO leveraging the Cloud to change your business, it’s a day of identity security best practices you don’t want to miss.