20 years in IT. 11 years with CGI (formerly AMS) in a variety of roles encompassing technical and functional architecture, project management, offering development and pre-sales. I was a founding member of the AMS Technical Architect community and am active in the CGI Technology and Practice Focus Networks.Functionally my expertise is in telecommunications - mostly mobile.

I have workeed on projects for many different European telcos in pretty much all areas of OSS and BSS. Over the last few years I've been very active around SOA within CGI, various clients and in the Open Group.

Before IT, I tried very hard to make a living playing music but never quite made it. I still play in my spare time (CDs available on request). I have a son aged 15 who plays in a metal band.

Presentation
SOA Security Challenges in an Extended Enterprise Model

This presentation focuses on issues related to identity and access management as traditional enterprises move into an extended enterprise model, based on SOA concepts. Usually the resulting architectures are a mix of eBusiness portals with an enterprise internal SOA and a strong and inflexible set of legacy components. As a consequence, identities must be managed across all domains and legal/regulatory requirements adhered to. Although solutions exist for most parts of the overall puzzle, the resulting architecture presents considerable challenges for governance and operations.

Philips and CGI have joined forces in a pilot project that involves some out of the box thinking and which we hope will result in a greatly simplified but generalizable solution for these issues.

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