With over 2,000 attendees and topics ranging across application platforms, collaboration initiatives, risk management and security, the Burton Catalyst Conference initiated the fusion of cutting-edge technology and real-world adoption.  Amid key-topics surfacing, Entitlement
Management became a conference highlight with Securent contributing its industry and thought leadership throughout the conference.

Kicking off pre-conference discussions, Securent hosted a dedicated Entitlement Roundtable attended by enterprise and security architects from ten major financial, high technology and healthcare organizations.  With a mix of existing customers and companies looking into Securent’s Entitlement Management Solution, the discussion was highly engaging and demonstrated the surging level of interest in this critical new discipline.

During the conference, Securent customers Timothy Moore of The First American Corporation and Jason Rogers of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan delivered real-world insight, with well attended presentations covering “Architecting and Implementing an Enterprise-wide Entitlement Infrastructure ” and “Turning the SOA Dream into Reality with XACML-based Entitlement Management Security.”

Their presentations are available for download via the following links:

 “Architecting and Implementing an Enterprise-wide Entitlement Infrastructure”

“Turning the SOA Dream into Reality with XACML-based Entitlement Management Security”

The XACML 2.0 Interop, sponsored by OASIS, showcased eight vendors demonstrating interoperability through a stock portfolio transaction scenario. Securent was able to successfully complete both interop scenarios, showing an ability to send/receive authorization decision requests and exchange policies with other participating vendors. Securent XACML Interop Datasheet

Wrapping up several days of educational and insightful sessions, attendees and analysts alike roamed from hospitality suite to hospitality suite, enjoying food and fun while networking and learning more about vendor solutions.  Securent’s “Entitlement Management Grand Slam” suite offered interactive games of Wii tennis and was jam-packed the whole night with overflowing crowds for Wii virtual tennis matches and a demonstration of Securent’s award-winning Entitlement Management Solution!   

As an emerging technology quickly gaining interest and adoption by organizations and industry experts, Securent recently launched an Entitlement Management industry blog. The blog is dedicated to fostering the collaboration, education and advancement of this rapidly growing segment within the Security and Identity and Access Management markets.

With contributions from notable experts, such as Gerry Gebel of Burton Group and Jim Reavis of Reavis Consulting Group, this blog is a medium to foster provocative discussions between practitioners and those trying to learn more about Entitlement Management.  All visitors are encouraged to post comments and contribute to the discussion threads. 
Entitlement Management Blog

Securent recently announced that its Entitlement Management Solution is now integrated with Sun Microsystem’s Identity Management products, including Sun Java System Access Manager and Sun Java System Identity Manager. As a result, Sun customers can benefit from a seamless end-to-end solution for protecting their applications and data with unified access control.  Securent’s Entitlement Management Solution complements Sun’s Identity Management products by delivering fine-grained access control across disparate applications. Read more

Guest speakers:         
Jonathan Penn, Vice President & Research, Forrester Research
Andras Cser, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research

Analysts from independent firm Forrester Research will discuss developing and deploying an enterprise policy framework, powered by an Entitlement Management solution, to address the security needs of critical enterprise applications. A policy management framework governs access rights, or entitlements, and delivers it as a robust infrastructure service that can be shared and leveraged across many applications.

In the absence of such a policy framework, enterprises would have to embed security logic into applications and thus impact developer productivity and business agility.  In addition, organizations face increased risks and costs from managing entitlements in silos, while also rendering governance and compliance difficult, if not impossible, to achieve.

During this webcast, you will learn:

• Why traditional Identity and Access Management tools are inadequate to address today’s complex enterprise security requirements
• Why Forrester Research considers Entitlement Management a critical component of an identity-enabled infrastructure
• How to create an effective policy management framework with an Entitlement Management solution
• How Securent’s product integrates with your applications and existing IAM and security infrastructures

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Guest speakers from Forrester discuss building a policy framework to address security requirements of critical enterprise applications.

Catch up on the latest in Entitlement Management from industry experts and practitioners.