ZapForum Podcast for September 1, 2007 features

Guest Expert Toufic Boubez, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Layer 7 Technologies.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what identity is and how it fits into SOA
• Understand the relationships between identity and governance and between identity and policy
• Grasp the nature of federated identity, and the standards that support it

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts

ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer set the stage by discussing the importance of identity to SOA, as well as some of the challenges.

Next, Toufic Boubez defines identity, and explains its role in SOA. Toufic then differentiates between authentication and authorization, and details the specifics of identity-based access control. Toufic also explains federated identity, identity models, and the relationship between identity and policy enforcement in a SOA context.

Featured Guest Expert: Toufic Boubez

Chief Technology Officer, Layer 7 Technologies.

Toufic Boubez is the CTO of Layer 7 Technologies. Prior to joining Layer 7, Toufic was CTO at Saffron Technologies, where he drove the company’s distributed machine learning and knowledge management initiative for the US military and government. Prior to Saffron, he was chief architect of IBM’s Web services initiatives. He was also IBM’s technical representative to the UDDI Web services consortium with Microsoft and Ariba (www.uddi.org) and a co-author of the UDDI API spec.

This ZapForum Podcast is presented as a 12.7 MB mp3 file. Running time: 27:53.Download File