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• No Rainy Days: Identity Protection in the Cloud

  by Eric Youngstrom, Francis D'Addario, Oren Hamami and Suzanne Barber

  Cloud computing has made the move from new concept to technology that your mother uses. We now are entrusting so many different types of data to the cloud from financial statements and credit card numbers to our music collection and private emails. Yet how secure is the cloud and how much control do we have over the data that we entrust to it? If that data is stolen, will we know and what can we do? Who has jurisdictional authority over the data we store and under what circumstances can it be given away? This panel will try to answer these questions and more as we explore the impact of the cloud and what it means for personal identity and security.

  • Cloud
  • Finance
  • Identity
  • Security

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Sabine, Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown

  Coverage audio clip

• SSO (Single Sign On): Why Does It Suck So Often?

  by Cynthia Johanson, Joseph Smarr, Matthew Rothenberg and Matt Kelly

  Single sign-on was a great promise: let the big identity providers handle authentication/identity, and your website gets all the benefits of a streamlined registration process for free! Anyone who has ever tried to implement it however, knows it never really works that way. In the real world, it’s a lot more messy: especially when you add in mobile, multiple providers and mixing it up with an existing account system. We’ll discuss best practices for making it work, handling the gnarly edge cases with security and identity issues, and how to make sure the user experience is as painless as possible.Panel will include platform representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

  • Authentication
  • federation
  • Identity

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom A, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip