Featured speaker sessions
Alex Simons
Corporate Vice President of Program Management, Microsoft Identity
Identity Standards: What’s up, what’s new, what’s next
Open standards are essential building blocks for innovation, taking on heavy lifting that frees developers to focus on building unique solutions. In this session, Alex Simons will share the latest news on open identity standards and how innovators are using them to make the digital world safer and more equitable. After showing demos of some awesome FIDO 2 implementations, he’ll delve into the rising importance of Zero Trust and standards that are critical for supporting the new normal of remote work. He’ll then explore the role that decentralized identity systems and related standards will play to help us manage everyday digital interactions in a world forever changed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
9:00 AM
Sue Bohn
Partner Director of Program Management, Microsoft Identity
Keynote panel: Identity at scale
The ways and frequency with which we use our identity data are increasing at an almost unimaginable rate. Dealing with Identity at scale is a challenge we will have to face. In this panel, hear how some of the largest providers and users of identity services are addressing those challenges today, and discover approaches and techniques that you will be able to use in the future.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
9:00 AM
Alex Weinert
Partner Director of Identity Security, Microsoft Identity
Identity kill chain: A hacker’s eye view of how your systems get pwned
A kill chain is the set of steps an attacker takes to achieve their objective. This nerve-wracking session includes live demos of current attack methods. You’ll walk through the identity kill chain from an attacker’s perspective and see what they see as they’re taking over your domain. We’ll show you the tools they use, how they apply them, and how they move from one guessed password to total takeover. You’ll see where the weakest links are in identity systems and how best to break the kill chain for each step, and you’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of attack mechanics and greater confidence in your ability to defend your organization.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
11:00 AM
Pamela Dingle
Director of Identity Standards, Microsoft Identity
A balancing act: Identity, privacy, and security in a data-sharing economy
As the value of enterprise data increases so do the risks to the enterprise, the individual, and the industry. Do you know how to recognize those risks and mitigate them as an identity, privacy, or security professional?
Thursday, July 02, 2020
11:00 AM
The skills and experiences of identity practitioners
Knowing what skills you need to become an identity practitioner isn’t obvious, and hearing from others who’ve been in the same place in their careers can offer a lot of clarity. In this panel, cohosted by ID Pro and Women in Identity, professionals from Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Thomson Reuters will share their journeys toward becoming successful identity practitioners.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
11:00 AM
Robin Goldstein
Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft Identity
Customers and partners: Seamless and secure experiences for every relationship
Organizations going through a digital transformation need to manage and secure user identities beyond organizational boundaries, including partners, customers, and citizens. They want a single solution that’s user-centric, flexible, secure, and scalable enough to support global users authenticating with any kind of identity. They also want a solution that has rich customization for both consumer- and business-facing use cases. In this session you’ll see real-world examples that show how organizations can create customized, branded experiences. The session will also highlight considerations for managing the lifecycle of all types of users.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
9:00 AM
Sponsored sessions
A Zero Trust approach for today’s world
with Nitika Gupta
With the current shift to a remote workforce, many organizations that have traditionally invested in network as a perimeter have had to quickly adapt and enable secure access to corporate resources. End users are working from home, and VPN isn’t always a viable option. A Zero Trust approach to securing your data is more important than ever. This session will demystify Zero Trust and lay out the steps needed to start your Zero Trust journey.
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
10:00 AM
Identity governance for all your users made easier through analytics
with Rahul Prakash
The growing number of users, devices, and apps connected to a network has made it increasingly difficult and time-consuming for organizations to proactively detect and remediate access risk. This session will show how analytics and machine learning can be used to automate the governance lifecycle management for internal and external user access and ensure that users have only the access they need. You’ll learn how analytics can help you:
- Drive user productivity by automatically granting access to SaaS apps based on usage patterns.
- Drive better recommendations and automation for reviewers who periodically review access.
- Programmatically remove users who are no longer required.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
10:00 AM
Microsoft Masterclass: Manage and secure all your apps with identity as the control plane
with Jairo Cadena and Jeevan Bisht
Secure application access is a challenge many organizations face when implementing a Zero Trust strategy. In this masterclass, we’ll discuss how identity can be the control plane for managing and securing all apps, from Microsoft 365, popular SaaS apps, and traditional on-premises apps, to custom-built line-of-business apps. You’ll learn about:
- The benefits of bringing all apps under one integrated identity platform.
- The different integration pathways available and the best practices to bring all your apps under one identity provider (IDP).
- New integration capabilities with your existing infrastructure.
Tuesday, July 24, 2020
9:00 AM
Microsoft Masterclass: Upgrade your apps authentication from Active Directory Federation Services to Azure Active Directory
with Luis Leon Plata and Ramiro Calderon
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) has helped organizations start their digital transformation journey by improving access to their cloud and web apps. The security landscape calls for a more modern and more scalable solution to increase app security, improve employee productivity, and reduce IT costs. In this masterclass you’ll learn how you can use Azure AD as your central identity platform. You’ll also learn how to upgrade from AD FS to secure all your apps directly from the cloud and reduce your dependency on on-premise identity systems. We'll walk you through various Azure AD tools and features to help you discover and reconfigure your AD FS apps, and we’ll share some best practices to ensure a smooth migration for all your users.
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
11:00 AM
Additional sessions
Distributed open identity: Self-sovereign OpenID, a status report
with Preeti Rastogi
In November 2019, OpenID Connect WG separated Chapter 7 from OpenID Connect Core and made it an independent specification to close the gap between "Self-issued OpenID Provider" and "Self-sovereign Identity.” This session (a follow-up to the Identiverse 2019 session "SSO: Self-sovereign OpenID Connect—a to-do list”) will provide an overview of these developments and bring the audience up to speed on what’s happening in the space, complete with demos of such implementations.
Monday, June 29, 2020
11:00 AM
Meet ION: An open, public, permissionless DID network
with Daniel Buchner and Henry Tsai
In this session, you’ll learn about the key technical challenges in creating decentralized identifier/PKI systems and how we designed the Sidetree protocol to solve them. You’ll walk away understanding how to use ION (an instantiation of Sidetree running on Bitcoin) to create and manage W3C-compliant Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).
Monday, August 03, 2020
9:00 AM
Identity for Firstline Workers: Transforming work for the next two billion
with Steve Ball
Firstline Workers are the first to engage your customers and the first to represent your brand. Their ambition, creativity, and action differentiate the customer experience, drive productivity, and bring your organization’s strategies to life. Their unique technology needs present specific security and compliance challenges that must be addressed without burdening your IT organization. Empowering your Firstline Workforce starts with providing ways to quickly onboard them and allow them to securely access the tools, applications, and data they need to be productive, while respecting security and compliance requirements to protect your data and brand. This session will address real-world considerations when providing solutions for this important and often untapped user population.
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
9:00 AM
Enabling scalable, multilateral federations with OpenID Connect
with Mike Jones
Responding to demand from the research and education community to migrate from SAML 2 to the simpler OpenID Connect protocol, the OpenID Connect working group has created the OpenID Connect Federation specification to enable this. The new approach incorporates lessons learned from existing SAML 2 federations—especially using a new, scalable approach to federation metadata in which organizations host their own signed metadata and federation operators in turn sign statements about the organizations participating in the federation. This session will describe progress in implementing and deploying OpenID Connect Federation, upcoming interop events and results, and next steps to complete the specification and foster production deployments.
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
11:00 AM
Enabling attributes of self in identity systems
with Bethan Cantrell
In many digital environments some people may want to include relevant, self-identified attributes, such as gender, religion, and sexual orientation in their digital identity. As we can see from current events, there’s a clear tension between enabling people to identify these attributes and the risk of those attributes being used to harm them. Whether the identity system is for work, government services, a social network, or something else, it needs to be implemented in a way that provides benefit without opportunity for systematic harm. This session will explore considerations when planning to enable sharing of this information as identity attributes and will present a few scenarios for discussion about controls that can be put in place.
Thursday, July 09, 2020
9:00 AM
The science behind detecting compromised identities
with Dana Kaufman
Most compromised identities show a deviation from the user’s normal behavior in their interactions with the identity provider. It may seem easy to detect a compromised account using simple rules based on past behavior, but these simple rules generate too many false positives, and the signal often gets lost in the noise. In this session, you’ll peek under the hood of the data science to see how you can use behavioral analytics, machine learning, and other risk signals to design high-quality algorithms that help detect identity compromise in real time.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
9:00 AM
User and Thing Identity in the Zero Trust Networking Era
with Tim Cappalli
In this session you’ll get a look at new technologies and protocols, such as the Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP), which simplifies provisioning for end users and enterprise administrators and provides a persistent, cryptographically backed device identity to the network. You’ll also hear about older technologies such as Tunneled EAP (TEAP), that have resurfaced to solve new use cases like binding together user and machine identities on laptops, tablets, smartphones, and other user-centric devices.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
9:00 AM