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Identity-Based Security: It All Starts with the Network

It's only recently that Network and Security architects have recognized the critical role for identity in achieving more secure networks. Knowledge of user identity enables more intelligent decisions within the network infrastructure and within the business. Historically, identity awareness occurred in networks only on the remote edges of the WAN, but leading researchers at the Burton Group expect that over time, identity awareness of user information will be ubiquitous throughout the network, and new tools for managing network identity are needed to help automate dozens of redundant and manual identity-related IT processes. A new era of identity-based security has arrived, and the emergence of network identity appliances will be one of the enablers of this evolution. Please join Burton Group Research Director Phil Schacter and industry security and identity management experts from A10 Networks and Lancope for a free and informative discussion of the role of network identity in securing the enterprise infrastructure and new strategies for optimizing identity resource management processes. Topics to be covered include: *Overview of Burton Group's identity management reference architecture *Technical and operational considerations around implementing identity appliances in enterprise networks *Practical advice on how to implement a cost-effective and secure ?identity aware? network infrastructure *Multiple strategies using commercial and Open Source technologies, which attendees quickly can put into use to automate network management processes, simplify compliance, and speed up forensics