Agenda:

• 11:30 – 12:00      Registration & Light lunch available
• 12:15 – 12:30      Welcome and Introductions                     
• 12:30 – 13:30      IBM Security Systems                    John McKeon

Introduction and Strategy

Emerging IAM Challenges

Security Intelligence                      

• 13:45 – 14:45      IBM Research                                    Dr. Nalini Ratha

 Trusted Strong Authentication on Mobiles

With the rapid growth of mobile internet and smart phones, security short comings of mobile software and mobile data communication have shifted the focus on strong authentication.  The existing user-id/password methodology, while tolerable for desktop/laptop, is inadequate for mobile use due to difficulty of data entry on a small form factor device and higher risk of the device getting in the hands of unauthorized users.  While usage scenarios for both physical and logical access in health industry are at play, the current demand is dominated by logical access needs of many industries such as healthcare, financial services and enterprise content access applications.  Existing solutions for strong authentication involve the usage of different tokens such as "RSA tokens", specialized hardware or software that generates an authentication code at fixed intervals.  However, these are vulnerable to theft or physical loss of the device. The biggest drawback is that these token-based strong authentication methods don’t provide the non-reputability which is important in many enterprise applications.  Often a single modality biometric authentication suffers from accuracy, universal coverage and robustness issues (e.g., due to noisy environment, changes in speaker's voice).  Unacceptable rate of false accepts and false rejects lead to lack of trust and/or usability challenges to the end user. The combination of different unique biometrics signatures generated through multiple information/sensor channels available in a Smartphone can reduce the false accept/false reject rates significantly and thus address fraudulent use.  In addition, his combination offers a great potential to design flexible and easy to use authentication flows from the usability perspective. he proposed Multi-factor biometric authentication solution will extend the existing mobile authentication solutions to a trusted strong authentication solution that would be seamless and continuous, thus achieving maximum security and at the same time a high level of usability and efficiency.

• 15:00 – 16:00      Access Governance                        Dan Peterson

Access Governance: One Company’s Story

Join us as we explore one enterprise's successful implementation of an Access Governance solution.  Starting with a process that required 5 full-time people over 36 weeks (with poor results), they were able to successfully move to a 9-week cycle requiring only 1.5 people, with stellar results.  In addition to explaining the project, the presenter will also provide a product demonstration, showing some of the scenarios put in place by this customer.

Speakers:

John McKeon, IBM

John is the Director of IBM's Institute for Advanced Security in the Americas.  The Institute advises, educates and collaborates on advanced security policy, trends and threats. Areas of current focus for the Institute include cyber security, cloud security, mobile security and advanced  security analytics.   John is also well known as an expert in the field of advanced identity systems, including the latest in identity verification and authentication systems, identity enrollment and proofing solutions, and credentialing and strong authentication technologies such as smart cards and biometrics.

Nalini K. Ratha, IBM

Dr Ratha received his Ph. D. from the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech in Computer science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.   Currently, he is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York where he leads the biometrics research efforts in building efficient biometrics systems. In addition to more than 80 publication in peer reviewed journals and conferences, and co-inventor on 12 patents, he has co-edited two books entitled “Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems” and “Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems” published by Springer and co-authored a popular text book entitled “A guide to Biometrics” published by Springer in 2003. In the past, he has been associated with several leading biometrics conference including general co-chair of IEEE AutoID 02 and SPIE Conf. on Biometrics in Human Identification 2004 – 2005. More recently, he was co-chair of an associated theme on biometrics at ICPR 2006 and ICPR 2008 and also the founding co-chair of CVPR workshop on Biometrics 2006-2010, and founding co-program chair of IEEE Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 07 -- BTAS 09). He served on the editorial board of Pattern Recognition journal and IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. He was a guest co-editor of a special issue on biometrics for IEEE Trans. on SMC-B and also for IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics- Part B. He has received several patent awards and a “Research Division” award and two “Outstanding Technical Innovation Award” at IBM. He continues to teach at Cooper Union and NYU-Poly as an Adjunct professor for last several years. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IAPR and Senior Member of ACM.  His current research interests include biometrics, computer vision, pattern recognition and special purpose architecture for computer vision systems. He is the President of the IEEE Biometrics council for 2011-2012.

Dan Peterson, Aveksa

Dan is the Co-Founder and Vice President, Product Management where he is responsible for defining product strategy, setting requirements, and determining engineering priorities.  He has more than 25 years experience in product development, support, sales and consulting at firms such as Performaworks, Novell, Engage, Banyan Systems, Hewlett Packard and IBM.  Dan has a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University and is an avid boater.  When not working he can often be found on the coastal waters of Cape Cod.