EDGE at the University of Texas at Austin joins with CAIMR to Co-Host a Summit on Identity Management

Nation's Foremost Experts in Identity Security and Management Gather to Address Key Challenges

Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 6, 2009 -- Cybercriminals have targeted personal identifier information for profit, to facilitate a wide range of crimes, and to attack our country at home and abroad. The Center of Excellence in Distributed Global Environments (EDGE) at the University of Texas at Austin and the Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR) are hosting the upcoming Summit on Identity Management that will address the current and near future identity challenges faced by commerce, government and individuals. The theme of the Summit is "The Digital Identity: A Double Edged Sword," which will cover current and emerging threats, counter measures and research thrusts in the digital identity environment. We invite you to attend this important forum featuring several of the nation's most prominent experts in identity security and management from law enforcement, government, corporations, and academia.

What: The Summit on Identity Management
The Digital Identity: A Double Edged Sword
http://www.edge.utexas.edu/news.htm

Who: CAIMR and EDGE at the University of Texas at Austin

Speakers:
Ann Marie Beasley, Vice President, General Manager Identity Services, Symantec Corporation
Ben H. Bell, Special Assistant to the CEO, Cogent Systems
Ron Carpinella, Vice President ID Management, Equifax, Inc.
Dr. Gary R. Gordon, Executive Director of CAIMR
Craig Magaw, Deputy Assistant Director, United States Secret Service
Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Office of Homeland Security
Michael Stanfield, CEO, Intersections, Inc.
Norman A. Willox, Jr., Chairman of CAIMR, Special Advisor to the CEO, LexisNexis
Dr. Suzanne Barber, Director of EDGE

When: Thursday, May 7, 2009
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Where: The University of Austin at Texas
Avaya Auditorium, ACE Building, 201 E. 24th Street

RSVP: charlotte.harris@edge.utexas.edu       

About CAIMR
The Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR) is a non-profit corporation comprised of representatives from government, corporate and academic institutions who share a common interest in the multi-faceted aspects of identity management. It is a trusted public-private partnership bringing together cross-disciplinary experts in criminal justice, financial crime, biometrics, cyber crime and cyber defense, data protection, homeland security, risk management and national defense. CAIMR is an applied research organization that studies identity issues, their social implications, and the processes, technologies and polices designed to deal with them. Most importantly, CAIMR is focused on discovering real world solutions and providing best practices and recommendations. CAIMR's partners are: Cogent Systems, Equifax, IBM, Intersections, Indiana University, LexisNexis, Symantec, The University of Texas at Austin, US Secret Service, Visa, Fair Isaac, US Marshals Service, Wells Fargo & Company, Dragnet Solutions, ID Experts, Identity Theft Assistance Corporation (ITAC), Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), with Dr. Gary R. Gordon serving as its Executive Director. For more information on CAIMR, please visit: http://caimr.indiana.edu/.

About EDGE
The Center for Excellence in Distributed Global Environments (EDGE) at The University of Texas at Austin is a research center working to transform the ways in which locally, nationally, and globally distributed software engineering teams collaborate. This transformation effort is fueled by original research, generating new theories, technologies, and tools that in turn drive excellence in software engineering pursuits. EDGE research helps engineering teams gain a pervasive awareness of distributed processing environments as influenced by culture, language, law, public policy, engineering decision tools, and global networks. Such awareness serves to reduce the ambiguities, unknowns and misunderstandings inherent within team-driven projects characterized by distance, diversity, and complexity. EDGE also works to revolutionize how globally dispersed computational resources, and the users of those resources, effectively overcome the challenges of massively expanding information pools, compressed time schedules, ambiguous requirements, and increasingly complex problem sets. The center conducts research intended to transform the ways in which computers help computers, and ultimately, the ways in which computers help people - so that people can truly use computers as powerful extensions of their own capabilities. http://www.edge.utexas.edu/

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