Identity Driven Networking (IDN) : enabling an open environment by providing role based visitors access control over existing infrastructure
Andrew Hall 2006
The presentation will discusss the complexities in the education sector in being able to provide uniformity of access across heterogeneous networking environments. The complexity of managing networking environments and identities in education organizations does not easily allow enablement of open learning environments (i.e. granulated services, allowing formal visitors and contractors access to resources, controlling per user bandwidth usage or allowed content per group etc.) as there is an in-balance between the need for openness and access and the ability of the infrastructure to properly and effectively support it.
The application of IDN combines the power of Role-based Access Control (RBAC) and granular policy based metrics which creates new opportunities to enable open environments with less cost in terms of management overhead and without the need to replace existing hardware and technologies.
About Andrew Hall
Andrew Hall (B.Sc., M.Dig.comms., CCIE, CNE) - co-founder, Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of Blue Reef. He has over 20 years experience in the IT Industry and has led Blue Reef’s technical R&D team for over 6 years. Andrew has previously held executive management and systems engineering roles with a number of major Australian and international companies and was actively involved in a number of large scale development projects.
In addition, Andrew was also formerly a senior executive of 3Com Corporation, a leading global partner of choice for converged voice and data networking innovations that improve business value for enterprises and public sector organisations of all sizes. Prior to establishing Blue Reef Andrew co-founded another company called Impaq, an education based e-learning business which he helped grow from a start up to a successful company generating revenue in excess of $12M per annum. At Impaq, Andrew was responsible for the development range of Internet services and content management products, oversaw a technical team of 35 employees and was instrumental in negotiating strategic partnerships with aligned technology vendors. Prior to Andrew leaving Impaq to start Blue Reef, the company realized a market valuation of more than $50M, was ranked 16th in the Deliotte’s Technology Top 50 fastest growing Internet Solutions Companies and won the prestigious Asia Pacific ICT Award for the most innovative new ICT application.