Authentication Summit 2007

On 18 and 19 April the Authentication Summit 2007 takes place in Boston. It's a two-day intensive program focused on online authentication, identity and reputation.  Summit 2007 builds upon the success of the past two Summits, with several enhancements including expanding the event to 2 full days, and three tracks, highlighting best practices in email, Web and domain authentication.

Here's an overview of the general and breakout sessions:

General Sessions:

• Keynote - Establishing Trust to realize the full potential of computing and messaging in an interconnected world
• Internet Identity Crisis - What are we solving and the risks of indecision?
• Internet Battlefield - Where are the threat vectors and what is the best defense?
• Evolution & Future of Electronic Messaging and Communications - Thinking Outside of Today's Inbox
• Impact to consumer trust and confidence; how authentication is defending against phishing
• State of the State - Authentication Scorecard and view of the Fortune 500, ecommerce and Financial Services Industries
• What it takes to authenticate inbound and outbound mail - Lessons Learned,
• Impact to email deliverability and false positives
• Trying Reputation to Authentication - Great You have A Drivers License but What is Your Driving Record?

Breakout Intensive Sessions:

• Deep Dive into DKIM and Sender ID - How combined they are better than alone. Use case scenarios, fringe cases and lessons learned.
• Integrating email authentication Inbound - How does it fit within a layered Enterprise Architecture?
• Beyond Authentication - Identity
• Online Banking ? Best practices and the future, will customers and their accounts be safe?
• Self Protection, Prevention & Compliance - What a domain holder can do to protect and prevent their domain from being compromised and what they should do when they have been compromised - Case Study
• Authentication Lessons Learned -  What email marketers must do and how can they best work with their IT departments?
• Email Deliverability Best Practices - The 360 Degree View
• emarketing - optimizing your brand for customer confidence
• Emerging Accreditation & Reputation Solutions - Industry Update & Roundtable
• Beating online criminals at their tricks ? An insiders perspective

If you're interested, you can find out more here.

Comments

[James]

Two thoughts. First, OpenID is one of the hottest things in IT, yet there are zero speakers covering it. Second, it seems as if there are zero speakers who are employees of Fortune 200 enterprises. A little bit of speaker diversity goes a long way...