Security Program Group
Delivering CDSA’s benefits to customers
CDSA attracted a high level of interest at the last members quarterly conference in San Diego and there's demand now to make the CDSA marketplace a reality.
In Miami, we are holding a CDSA Product Day, on Tuesday 21 July. The core group of CDSA platform and product vendors has been invited to unveil their product plans in a 'show and tell' format. Apple, Entrust, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel and Motorola have already committed to take part. They will talk about their firm plans for products and their delivery, demonstrate early releases and developers' tool kits and talk about how these solutions can be deployed and bring benefits to customers. The emphasis is on information that corporate users need to have to make informed decisions and procurements, including: case studies, real examples, their vision of how customers will use CDSA products.
This will be the first time that potential customers will have the chance to evaluate the products and plans in this rapidly developing market. For those customers who appreciate the need for early, solid information on products and product plans, as input to their own strategic plans, this event provides an unmissable opportunity to meet with a wide selection of suppliers under one roof.
The rest of the week covers the following:
- Advanced authorization - plans for open specifications for technologies that allow for run-time authorization decisions to be made with respect to time, location, currently-running software, and other so-called environmental factors.
- Information Management and Labelling - setting out the commercial requirements and business case, supported by real world facts, examples and business scenarios.
- CDSA next generation - bringing in new capabilities for the burgeoning CDSA marketplace, including support for JAVA, user authentication (including biometrics and integration with a single sign-on environment), integration with smartcards, and run-time verification of applications.
- Security Training - covering the format, plans and initial course modules being assembled by the developing alliance of co-operating security training companies.
- Single Sign-On - progress towards enterprise user/group account management through the use of widely available LDAP technologies, and augmenting the existing pluggable authentication modules.
- Plans for facilitating industry sector PKI deployments, working through a common architecture and in partnership with legal/regulatory bodies and other policy-developing and business consortia.
If you intend to be in Miami for this meeting, you are urged to register (via the links provided on the agenda page), immediately, since hotel rooms are being taken up fast.
