Guest Lecture on Identity and Access Management

Guest Lecture on Identity and Access Management

On 8 August 2012, a guest lecture was organized by the Department of CS &IT in the AV hall, The IIS University. The lecture was guided by Mr. Ranjan Jain, Cisco's Domain Architect for Enterprise Identity in California, USA. Mr. Jain is specialized in Web applications securities, federation, SAML, XACML, designing access, OAUTH, identity in the cloud, cloud security and stronger authentications. He has worked as an IAM engineer for Akraya Inc. for three years and for TCS as Software Engineer for another four. The lecture was conducted on the topic 'Identity and Access Management' and was organized by Ms. Anubha Jain, Head of the Department. He briefed the audience about the current situations of the Internet network. He highlighted that the problems related to hacking and identity theft are increasing with the technology being improvised and updated. He also showed the working of 'login in an account' from authentication of the identity to 'one time sign' concept. He also talked about IAM (Identity and Access Management), its architecture, its components and its management. He explained the concept using the example of how a unique number management system can store all the information of a person that can easily provide information of any individual. He also explained the role of cloud in IAM.
He not only stressed on the topic of IAM, but also told about the various technicalities on their ongoing research that might be launched in the near future. He gave an insight over how things are done on the Cisco platform and inspired students for their future career prospects in the field. The session was interactive and Mr. Jain answered all the queries asked by the students to their full satisfaction.

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