#EIC2010: The Anywhere Architecture is Any-Depth too
In a recent keynote (Six Sigma For the Secure Cloud – Equip the Enterprise for Success) at the European Identity Conference, Gerry Gebel introduced the concept of the Anywhere Archictecture: Data, applications and users can be anywhere… Does your architecture allow it? “Anywhere Architecture” is required. The whole world is your market place and you need the flexibility that you could deploy [services] anywhere. The Anywhere Architecture is about deploying services and connecting to users and data wherever they might be and enabling these interactions securely. Of course, in such a distributed environment, security needs to be rethought from the ground up. This goes through federated identity, trust establishment, externalized security, and flexible authorization to name but a few items. […]