667  Michele Leroux Bustamante Still Focused on Identity

Carl and Richard talk to Michele Leroux Bustamante about identity. Michele starts the conversation with the state of the union on identity. She walks through the evolution of identity concepts and how the various peices are being implemented. Michele also talks about the rise of REST-based identity (as opposed to SOAP-based) and the efforts to simplify identity. She also talks about Access Control Services (ACS), which is part of Azure AppFabric. oAuth, OpenID, Claims-Based Identity... this show has it all!

Michele Leroux Bustamante is CIO at Solliance (solliance.net), and CEO of Snapboard (snapboard.com) a tool for organizing and sharing content on the subjects that matter to you most. She is also a Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft MVP. Michele has over 20 years specializing in scalable and secure end-to-end system design, identity and access management, and cloud computing technologies - for companies of all sizes. Michele shares her experiences through presentations and keynotes all over the world and has been publishing regularly in technology journals her entire career. Michele wrote the best-selling book "Learning WCF" (O'Reilly 2007). She blogs at www.michelelerouxbustamante.com and tweets @michelebusta.

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