The rising demand for eGov services across all constituant groups has dramatically changed the Identity Management challenge within the Commonwealth. This session will explore the evolution of Identity Management approaches for securely delivering eGov services over the Internet, which has been driven by both constituant demand and US Federal government mandates to protect homeland security.
Starting with an overview of Identity Management, the presentation will detail lessons learned as early eGov applications moved from independent security domains to a centralized Identity Managemnt infrastructure that presented it's own set of obstacles. Next the current trend toward managing identity at the agency level with it's common constituant base will be discussed. Finally the challenges of re-integrating those agency identity infrastructures using the emerging Federation standards and the recent mandates regarding the use of common identity cards will be explored.
Presenter:
Patrick O'Kane
Chief Architect
Unisys Corporation
Mr. O’Kane is Chief Architect and practice lead for the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Practice at Unisys Corporation where he leads global solution development. The global solutions team develops new Identity Management service offerings and the associated technology partnerships, for worldwide delivery by the Unisys professional services organization. In his role as Chief Architect, he also provides design input and review for large enterprise IAM projects that are delivered by the Unisys professional service teams. In addition, he has engaged with clients as a Solution Architect and Project Manager for select complex enterprise IAM projects.
Mr O'Kane joined Unisys in 2004 through the acquisition of ePresence, where he served as CTO. ePresence, formerly Banyan Systems, specialized in the delivery of Security & Identity Management solutions for large enterprise clients. He is recognized as an industry expert and serves on the Industry Advisory Board of Digital ID World and on the Board of Directors of the Network Applications Consortium. Prior to his professional services roles, he performed as a Software Engineer and subsequently as a Development manager for Banyan Systems, building world class directory integrated software solutions for government organizations and large commercial enterprises. Previous to Banyan, he performed as a Software Engineer at Prime Computer developing commercial DBMS software. He received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.
