LEAP Sweden - Identity & Access Management

Today was the third day of the Swedish Lead Enterprise Architect Program at Microsoft in Kista. It has been a day filled with sessions on security and identity with a kind of unavoidable focus on federated identities in the cloud.

Overall it has been an awesome day with seminars from Henrik Nilsson, Barry O'Reilly and Sergio Molero among others. A lot of Microsoft technologies was mentioned, Forefront Identity Manager, Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, Forefront Unified Access Gateway, Direct Access, Windows Identity Framework and of course Azure Access Control Service.

Microsoft really has a great suite of applications regarding Identity & Access Management. I just wish there was a project or two where I could utilize all of these amazing technologies. I have had a plan to add a login feature to the Cornball using federated identities, so that might happen in the near future.

Besides, Björn Eriksen provided a tip for all of us thursty for education. Microsoft have collected a wide range of white papers, videos and links into what they call Microsoft Virtual Academy. Learn, explore and collect education points as you do it!

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