The meeting was opened by Chairman David McRoberts at 9:40 am
David gave a brief run through of the sessions coming up during the day. Mention was made to the presentations being made available on the GSE website. Note: Rob Vanhobokens presentation from Lincoln is not on the website but is available on request.
David gave some advance information on what to expect at the October Conference in Stratford upon Avon. The theme will be Securing On-demand. Highlights will include a live video link with Poughkeepsie with Mark Nelson and also Wai Choi.
First presentation Provisioning a question of identity Paul Webster (IBM)
Second presentation Manage Your Users, Manage Your Costs Keith Girst (Beta)
Whats New?
Keith Girst (Beta) Deutsche Bank / IBM Global Services / Beta transaction pricing model. Re-charging of services.
Graham Tapper (CA) Security enhancement with (1) Netegrity acquisition (2) Tiny software (firewall) Easy Armour was ZoneAlarm and in time will become Tiny as products are incorporated into CA products.
Keith George (IBM) now reselling Vanguard products Enforcer, Administrator, Security Centre
Mike McNamee (e3sciences) PassGen for Java uses RACF Passtickets. New pure java version executes under J2SE 1.4 or later. Supplement Palm OS and Windows environments.
Steve Morland (Software Europe) Consul Insight Security Manager. Event logs from platforms. Recently acquired Netmon2 company. Becoming a major player with Symantec.
Third presentation ACF2 Update from CA Ross Decent (CA)
Fourth presentation Integrated Identity Management Paul Webster (IBM)
Information Exchange, FAQs, Hints and Tips Mike McNamee, Tim Casey
See presentation, plus other things mentioned included: Cryptainer (http://www.cypherix.com/downloads.htm) and bcrypt (http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/) for PC file encryption
Fifth presentation Strategy for Provisioning Mike Small (CA)
The meeting was closed at 5:30pm.