Gavenraj Sodhi is Product Manager in the eTrust Brand Unit at Computer Associates International, Inc.  He contributes to the overall Identity and Access Management security solution strategy within the eTrust Brand Unit and is responsible for defining and evangelizing the product and marketing strategy for the eTrust Admin product line.

Mr. Sodhi has been actively involved in the security industry for over 10 years and is a founding member of the SPML working group within OASIS and drives a number of Industry Initiatives for CA including the Liberty Alliance.

Previous to joining Computer Associates International in 2003, Mr. Sodhi served in a variety of positions in the Provisioning and Identity Management space at Business Layers (Netegrity, now CA) and Access360 (IBM). 

Mr. Sodhi received a bachelor's of science degree in chemical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix.

Presentation

SAML and its Positive Impacts on Business and Users
SAML has been evolving as an even more important standard used in the industry for the purposes of cross domain access control preserving what user information is shared and single sign-on.  The enterprise organization serving as the central business organization can serve as an authentication authority, or can defer to one of its “trusted partners” for the business campaign in the example of multiple trusted partners. 

A demo will be shown of how an organization and their partners may use SAML for cross domain access control with secure authentication/authorization enabling users to access services securely and privately with the added benefit of use SAML assertions.  SAML makes it possible for otherwise disparate enterprises to recognize one another as trusted parties and defer authentication of a requestor (typically a user) to one another.  This facilitates transparent single sign-on, without requiring a single set of credentials across multiple disparate enterprises.

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