Who's in Your Cloud?

Session Date and Time: Day 2, March 24, 14:30 EST (11.30am PST) (45min)
The ability to juggle operational versus capital costs is a strong reason to run towards cloud computing - but what kind of tradeoffs will your organization make in that headlong rush? As business processes move out of the direct view of your IT organization, Enterprises can make choices that will protect corporate resources such as passwords, maintain visibility into critical compliance metrics, and retain control over the most valuable of corporate assets - the people. Patrick Harding of Ping Identity will talk about the risks involved in careless transition to the cloud and the options available to Enterprises around maintaining control over corporate authentication and provisioning of corporate accounts to external entities. Lastly, Patrick will show how this new wave of business expansion is a natural evolution that will become the foundation for the future.

Patrick Harding Bio:

Harding brings more than 20 years of experience in software development, networking infrastructure and information security to the role of Chief Technology Office for Ping Identity. Harding is responsible for Ping Identity’s technology strategy.
Previously, Harding was a vice president and security architect at Fidelity Investments where he was responsible for aligning identity management and security technologies with the strategic goals of the business. Harding was integrally involved with the implementation of federated identity technologies at Fidelity -- from “napkin" to production. An active leader in the Identity Security space, Harding is a Founding Board Member for the Information Card Foundation, a member of the Cloud Security Alliance Board of Advisors, on the steering committee for OASIS and actively involved in the Kantara Initiative and Project Concordia. He is a regular speaker at RSA, Digital ID World, SaaS Summit, Burton Catalyst and other conferences. Harding holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.