Stuart McIrvine Director of IBM Corporate Security Strategy

Stuart McIrvine has been with IBM for 15 years. In his current role, he is responsible for defining strategy for IBM's extensive portfolio of Security products, services, and partnerships to meet the security needs of IBM's customers. Prior to this role, Stuart held marketing, hardware and software engineering positions in IBM's Software Group in a variety of areas including Networking and Security Business Integration and Portals. Stuart has an undergraduate degree in Electronic Systems and Microcomputer Engineering and an MBA.

A representation of Mr. Mcirvine's expertise in security and enterprise software can be found in the following recent media appearances and publications:

• Interview on "ABC News Now" alongside Howard Schmidt (former Cybersecurity advisor to President Bush and current CSO of eBay) 11/15/04
• Live Interview with Business Talk Radio (New York) on the announcement of IBM's Global Business Security Index
• Interview with WebSphere Advisor magazine on Business Integration - http://websphereadvisor.com/doc/12584
• Wrote the foreword to Anura Guruge's book on Corporate Portals - Anura Guruge is an independent industry analyst
• Dozens of press and analyst interviews for various WebSphere Business Integration announcements

Presentation

Identity Driven Enterprise for an On Demand World

It has always been critically important to have the ability to identify the users of business IT systems.  Whether it is to control who has access to information and applications or to provide the ability to customize the delivery of specific information to a user based on their role, identifying the user is a valuable function of the enterprise systems.  Managing the identities of all the users that need to connect to the business, however, is becoming increasingly difficult.  The volume of users is continuing to increase and the frequency with which existing users change roles is not slowing down.  In addition to all of this, we now need to be concerned, not only with the identity of the user that is connecting to the business systems, but also the identity of the device that is making the connection.  Mobile devices are more exposed to viruses and worms and therefore pose a larger threat to the business when these machines connect to the corporate networks.

This presentation covers some of the key business issues around identity management and looks at various solutions that are available to make the job of managing identities easier for today's enterprises.