WSO2 Identity Server - Identity and Access Management Redesigned - Thursday, May 29, 2014

The identity and access management landscape has evolved rapidly in recent years with a multitude of standards, like OpenID Connect, eclipsing the world of identity. As a result, there’s an urgent need to re-think IDM solutions and ensure they are able to seamlessly adapt to these changes. Given that acquisitions, mergers, and directly on-boarding customers seem to be the trend today, concepts such as bring-your-own-identity, just-in-time provisioning, and dynamically discovered federation are real needs of project managers and architects. WSO2 Identity Server 5.0 takes a rejuvenated approach to successfully eradicate complexities in various identity and access management standards. It abstracts the interactions between an application and an IDM from the perspective of a service provider and identity provider.

In this session Johann Nallathamby, associate technical lead at WSO2, will discuss the following:

• Advantages of new chained collaborative federation capability in WSO2 Identity Server 5.0
• How to configure and govern a set of identity providers, selectively associate them to a set of service providers, and carry out federated authentication and provisioning
• Chain of control over what each entity in the system can do, propagated from a tenant administrator, to an application developer, and to an end user

Johann Nallathamby Associate Technical Lead, WSO2 Johann is an Associate Technical Lead at WSO2 and the Product Lead of WSO2 Identity Server. In addition to his product development efforts he has provided Security and API Management solutions for numerous customers, during customer Quick Starts. He has also been a speaker at the WSO2 Conference 2013 USA. Johann holds a First Class (Hons.) degree in B.Sc. in Engineering specializing in Computer Science and Engineering, from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer.