Ron Williams, a graduate of the University of California, is a Security Architect, System Designer, and frequent speaker on Information Security. He has been author and coauthor of patents pertaining to secure web authentication and session management. He has developed security infrastructures for healthcare and for global financial institutions.

Ron developed a foundation in Healthcare Security and Privacy as a member of Kaiser Permanente’s national strategic planning staff. He was recruited as Security Architect at DASCOM Inc, “The Authorization Authority,” which was acquired by IBM in 1999. His professional focus is the application of standards based technologies to both product and client solution architectures.

As part of the Security Group for IBM Tivoli Software, Ron designs security architecture for IBM products, corporate operations, and for IBM’s customers. A native of California, he proudly lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife of 19 years and two children.

Presentation

The Practice of Identity Management Architecture

This presentation will discuss the patterns and practice fundamental to Identity Management Architecture. It is based on the premise that the enterprise architect's role is to populate business solutions with technology appropriate to the direct support of identifiable business objectives. It will explore the differences between Enterprise and Federated Identity Management; illustrate identity lifecycle management; and raise the business, regulatory, and privacy issues that may serve as drivers to enterprise scale deployment. This presentation will discuss both administrative and technical scalability, and offer a model by which the role of Identity Management is understood in the larger context of Enterprise Access Management.

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