• How has the coronavirus pandemic changed identity management?

• What will be the lasting impact of home working?

• How has the vendor landscape changed in the last six months?

Tom Allen, Site Editor, Computing Delta

Tom Stoddart, Assistant Director of Information Security at Manchester Metropolitan University, joins Stuart Sumner to discuss the present and future of information security.

Tom Stoddart, Assistant Director, Information Security, Manchester Metropolitan University
Stuart Sumner, Editorial Director, Computing and Delta

Our industry is used to rapid change; both to the challenges we face and our responses to those challenges. In the last few years, we’ve seen the proliferation of mobile adoption and cloud computing, while this year alone has seen a massive shift as millions of people have switched to work remotely. Traditional perimeter security is crumbling as we shift to an identity-driven security model centred on people and devices. This session looks at how IAM has evolved to take centre stage in the defence against security breaches.

Max Faun, Head of EMEA Consulting, Okta

A massive global workplace shift has happened, in the past few months, and continues to evolve as it impacts and challenges IT organisation accepting and adapting to “work from home” policies and the security challenges that come with it. Most existing IT systems were not built for nor designed for a 100% remote workforce. Non-corporate equipment, open non-reliable home networks, intermingling of work and personal applications, are some of the security challenges. Complicating that with an increasing sophistication in phishing attacks is bound to make any CISO stay awake waiting for a breach related disaster to strike. At the heart of it is trust and risk. You need an authentication authority to increase Trust whilst reducing and mitigating risk for all your remote workers.

Baber Amin, CTO West, Ping Identity

COVID-19 has massively accelerated the adoption of cloud and new ways of working outside our traditional offices. CISOs are facing the biggest leadership test of their careers right now as we must push to be the trailblazers within the company and not the laggards chasing or even hindering progress. How do we know we’re doing this right? How do we know we’re measuring the right things? Delivering on the right priorities? The world has changed. Remote working in the age of COVID has changed the threat landscape and security culture and behaviours are changing with it. 

Ben King, Regional Chief Security Officer, EMEA, Okta

Currently some organisations are exploring the use of blockchain and advanced biometrics in their I&AM systems, but will there be widespread adoption? Or, will other technologies lead the way? This panel discussion will explore the future of I&AM, asking:

• Which technologies will lead I&AM?

• Which innovative technologies are being developed and adopted within the I&AM space?

• Which new technologies offer optimum security and usability?

• How could future innovation change I&AM as you know it?

Rita Bhowan, IT Security Manager, The Law Society
Max Faun, Head of EMEA Consulting, Okta
Ian Scott, Head of Collaboration, EUC and Security Infrastructure, Manchester Metropolitan University
Neil Sinclair, National Cyber Lead, Police Digital Security Centre

Moderator: John Leonard, Research Director, Incisive Media 

Stuart Sumner, Editorial Director, Computing and Delta