Fred Wettling manages architecture and technology standards activities
for Bechtel Corporation, one of the world’s premier engineering,
construction, and project management companies. He is active within and
outside of Bechtel, promoting standards-based technology interoperability
that support global enterprise business needs.
Fred has been active in
the Network Applications Consortium (NAC) since 1997 and has served as
the NAC’s chairman for the past three years. His leadership has
expanded the NAC’s Alliance Partnership to include the Open
Group, Distributed Management Task Force, and Liberty Alliance to ensure
the “voice of the enterprise” is clearly heard by vendors
and standards organizations.
Fred is a long-term member of Cisco’s
Technical Advisory Board and is currently serving on the Next Generation
Network Task Force (NGNTF) of the President’s National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). Network World selected
Fred as #19 of the 50 most powerful people in networking in 2003 and 2004.
Presentation
Identity Management Beyond People
The needs and potential opportunities for identity management go well
beyond people. Emerging and future policy-based management
and security technologies offer hope for organizations with the vision
to improve their agility and streamline operations.
In this session the Network Applications Consortium will explore the
business context in which the management of identities beyond people
is becoming more critical. The discussion will also highlight relevant
standards and the potential expansion traditional identity management
concepts, systems, and structures to accommodate devices, networks, system,
and application identity management.
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