SAM Identity Management Forum

Welcome to the Beta Systems SAM Identity Management Forum March 18+19, 2010.

Conference Hotel:

Hotel Metropole S.A.
31, Place de Brouckère

1000 Brussels

Agenda - March 18
12:00 p.m.	Registration & Welcome Snack
12:30 - 1:00 p.m.	Welcome & Introduction Walter Teichert, Director Sales Europe Niels von der Hude, Senior Manager PreSales and Product Management
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.	SAM Enterprise – The next IdM Generation News and future plans, roadmap Kerstin Gießner, Productline Management
1:45 - 2:15 p.m.	Integration of heterogeneous Identity Management Environments SMPL as a tool for system integration Niels von der Hude, Senior Manager PreSales and Product Management
2:15 - 2:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
2:45 - 3:30 p.m.	Toward Access Management Excellence: BnPP-Fortis Use Case BNPP-Fortis has launched an initiative to structurally improve the management of logical access rights. The strategy will deliver on four business objectives and here we will explore the approach, solution, success factors and lessons learnt: Risk posture – improving control whilst strengthening compliance Efficiency – reducing costs and implementing automated end-to-end provisioning Effectiveness – improving quality by aligning people, process and technology Flexibility – supporting organizational changes and application evolution Mr. Jan De Blauwe, Head of Information Security and Risk Management, BNPP-Fortis
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:30 p.m.	SAM Password Management SAM Password Reset Selfservices vs. Password Synchronisation and SAM eSSO to improve user performance / convenience and to reduse helpdesk calls / costs Kjell Carlsson, Business Line IDM - Region Northern Europe
4:30 - 5:00 p.m.	SoD - Policy Enforcement with the rule engine How to configure SoD for roles and accounts with SAM Enterprise, Examples on how to use the Rule Engine for compliance purposes Roland Awischus, IdM Consulting
5:00 p.m.	Q&A Session
6:00 p.m.	Gala Dinner, Restaurant Belga Queen

Agenda - March 19
9:00 a.m.	Welcome back
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	User role life cycle management with SAM to improve process automation How to implement and maintain role based access control with SAM Enterprise Security Suite Roland Awischus, IdM Consulting
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.	SAM Business Process Workflow Allows you to easily and cost-effectively assess, present, edit and control your permission Workflows and to adapt them to changing requirements anytime Roland Awischus, IdM Consulting
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	GRC - Historic access right audit trail How GRC requires the audit ability of historic access rights - enhance identity reporting and analytics for GRCM Niels von der Hude, Senior Manager PreSales and Product Management
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.	Q&A Session, Summary, Thank You and Goodbye
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.	Goodbye Lunch Break

During the coffee breaks you will have ample opportunity to ask the experts from Beta Systems any questions you may have about your SAM installation, to discuss your ideas and suggestions with Product Management, or to find out more about the latest key issues in Identity Management, for example:

Automation – how to handle reorganisations – increasing automation levels?
Roles – role hierarchy and discovery - which roles and how many?
Delegated Administration – enabling and motivating the business?
Password Management – password synchronisation vs single sign-on?
Password self-service reset vs helpdesk?
Connection of non-standard target systems – online vs. batch interface?