Meeting the Challenge of Integrating your Mainframe/AS400 Environment with Today’s Modern Identity Management Infrastructure

Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00 EST

Speaker: Phil Lentz, Chief Technology Officer, IdentityForge

Today’s enterprises are challenged with integrated their mainframe environment into an overall security and identity management strategy. 

In this session you will learn:

• Current process and technology challenges associated with integrating an enterprise identity management planning strategy with a host based security model

• Suggestions and lessons learned from past identity management deployments in the context of integration of host based systems

• The limitations of current adapters/connectors provided by today’s leading identity management products

• The IdentityForge solution

• Product demonstration

Speaker Bio: Mr. Lentz has more than 18 years in the IT industry. For the past 10 years, he has specialized in IT security, specifically focusing on identity management and web services. Mr. Lentz is currently CTO of IdentityForge, a three-year old company focused on host based identity management. In addition, he is CTO of Logic Trends, a consulting company based on identity management with more than 30 full life-cycle identity and access management deployments in fortune 1000 accounts. Mr. Lentz has worked with companies such as Cingular, Bell South, Norfolk Southern, Federated Department Stores, Metlife, Sprint, Sherwin Wiliams, Timken Steel and Israel Discount Bank of NY