DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ping Identity®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced the winners of the first ever Nimby Awards, recognizing the best blogger commentary at the recently held Cloud Identity Summit 2012. Adrian Lane, CTO for Securosis, won the Identity Forecast award for best trend spotting, while Nat Sakimura, chairman of the OpenID Foundation, was lauded for best workshop coverage.
Nimby Awards – Best in Blogs
- Best Identity Forecast: In Takeaways from Cloud Identity Summit, Adrian Lane, analyst and CTO of Securosis, blogged about the intersection of identity and security. Adrian called out the importance of bringing together experts in those two fields and why the future of identity can only be realized with the union of these two disciplines. To read the full post, please visit: https://securosis.com/blog/takeaways-from-cloud-identity-summit.
- Best Workshop Coverage: Known for his research in the area of identity, OpenID chairman Nat Sakimura used a series of videos to highlight the OpenID Foundation’s meeting at CIS 2012. Through this format, Sakimura was able to capture the status updates, discussion of new technologies and the intersection of authentication protocols, as well as developments in identity as a service. To read the full post and watch the videos, please visit: http://nat.sakimura.org/2012/07/17/some-of-the-openid-foundation-summit-july-2012-videos-available/.
Nimby Award winners receive trophies and will be featured throughout the year on the Cloud Identity Summit website, heading into next year’s conference in Napa, Calif., July 8-12. For more information on next year’s Cloud Identity Summit, or on the Nimby awards, please visit: http://www.cloudidentitysummit.com/.
About Cloud Identity Summit
Ping Identity’s Cloud Identity Summit is the premiere conference dedicated to the role of identity in cloud security. The Cloud Identity Summit brings together hundreds of the world’s top experts, implementers and vendors into a single week of knowledge sharing. Cloud Identity Summit 2013 will take place in Napa, Calif., July 8-12, 2013. Visit cloudidentitysummit.com for more information.
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