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Using Identity Virtualization to Mitigate Risk at Sony Pictures Entertainment Event Details Who: Sony Pictures' Executive Director of Enterprise Technologies, Kunal Mittal When: Thursday, July 30 @ 11:55 a.m. Where: Burton Group Catalyst Conference, Hilton San Diego Bayfront - Map & Info Summary: You need to know who can do what in your organization-your security and compliance depends on it. But these are tough economic times. How can you solve these pressing issues with existing resources and shrinking budgets? For Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), the challenge was clear: to mitigate risk, it needed a complete picture of its users across the enterprise. And to stay within budget, the company had to leverage the significant investments it had already made in its directory, identity management, and application infrastructures. SPE achieved this-in less time, for less money-by virtualizing existing identity resources. In his presentation, Kunal Mittal, Executive Director of Enterprise Technologies at Sony Pictures Entertainment, will describe how his team used virtualization to provide a complete profile of all its users across disparate data silos, which could then be exposed as a web service to all the applications in the company's SOA infrastructure. Kunal will guide attendees through the SPE team's process of identity virtualization, showing how their overall IT strategy mapped back to their business strategy of focusing on risk mitigation, and highlighting these topics: How virtualizing existing directory and non-directory identity sources empowered the use of SPE's existing infrastructure with its IAM solutions, as well as other LDAP-based applications. How virtual directory was used as an abstraction layer to integrate identities from disparate data sources-including standard LDAP directories, Active Directory, databases, and J2EE-based services-and provide a single web services-based access point for applications. How virtual directory allowed Sony to leverage its existing infrastructure, providing a non-intrusive way to support web-based services in an SOA environment. Join us and learn: How virtualization at the identity and data layer simplifies the integration of your application, identity & directory infrastructure. How to create a unified user profile and make it available to all of your applications and identity management initiatives. How to minimize business risk and avoid compliance issues by using IdM to reveal who's doing what in the enterprise. Return to front page Simeio Solutions Hoboken Business Center 50 Harrison Street Suite 314, Hoboken, NJ 07030 Phone: (201) 239-1700 Fax: (201) 239-1701 www.simeiosolutions.com info@simeiosolutions.com

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