The Rise of Single Sign-on - John Vanderwall, Carol Woodbury & Pat Botz

Why are more organizations interested in single sign on (SSO)? Is it because IT teams are tired ofmanaging passwords? Or perhaps it’s because they’re frustrated with employees reusing passwords that have been previously been compromised, leaving their organizations vulnerable. Regardless of the reason, the use of single sign on is on the rise. During this session, Pat Botz, Carol Woodbury, and John Vanderwall from HelpSystems will describe SSO as well as the technologies IBM i provides for implementing SSO. Finally, they will answer your pressing SSO questions.

Carol Woodbury

President, CTO, Co-Founder

DXR Security

With over 25 years experience in the area of IT security, Carol is known world-wide as an expert in the area of computer security. During her career, Carol has architected security solutions for Fortune 100 companies as well as small and medium-sized organizations. Carol is passionate about sharing her knowledge of IBM i Security and helping clients make improvements to their IBM i Security one step at a time. Carol is co-founder and CTO of DXR Security, a firm specializing in performing IBM i penetration tests. Carol has been an IBM Power Champion since 2018.

Carol is an educator, architect, designer, implementer and an award-winning speaker, specializing in IBM i Security.

Carol is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) and a member of the ISACA organization.

Carol has written many books. IBM i Security and Administration, 3rd edition is available at MCPressOnline or amazon.com. Her latest book, Mastering IBM i Security is a ‘how to’ guide for implementing and managing security using SQL Services, New Nav and ACS. It includes all the latest in IBM i 7.5 and can be ordered from MCPressOnline https://www.mc-store.com/products/mastering-ibm-i-security or amazon.

Patrick Botz

Senior Security Services Consultant, HelpSystems

Patrick Botz is an internationally known information security expert whose expertise includes security strategy, security policy enforcement, password management and single sign on (SSO), industry and government compliance, and biometrics.

Patrick is a former Lead Security Architect at IBM, where he founded the IBM Lab Services security consulting team. From there, Pat went on to develop his own security consulting firm, Botz and Associates. Patrick has attained intimate knowledge of system security capabilities and pitfalls on a broad range of platforms, with special emphasis on IBM i (formerly AS/400), AIX, Unix, and Linux operating systems. He also architected the single sign on solution for OS/400 and i5/OS.

Early in his tenure at IBM, Patrick led the AIX work station tools team for CAD/CAM systems in Rochester, MN. Previous to IBM, he worked for Control Data Corporation with responsibility for CDC's Basic compiler, and for ETA Systems, Inc., a wholly owned supercomputer manufacturing subsidiary of CDC, where he was team leader for the distributed, Unix-based electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) tools.

Pat is also a published author and a worldwide speaker on various platform-specific and general security topics.

John Vanderwall

Vice President and Business Unit Manager for Security Services, HelpSystems

John spent two and a half years as an original founder of the software division of an AS/400 security software firm and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Before to that, John Vanderwall was founder and President of ClearView Marketing Services, LLC. ClearView specialized in contract sales representation for software firms and technology marketing consulting.

During his tenure, ClearView completed contracts with IIR Publishing (Midrange Computing), Microsoft, IMAS and Wall Data. Prior to ClearView, John spent eight years with WRQ as Product Manager and Market Development Manager for WRQ's IBM product line, and spearheaded WRQ's move into the IBM emulation market, authoring a business plan for creating a division focused on PC to IBM host connectivity. Today, the IBM products remain a key component of WRQ's product offerings.