Authentication is a critical subject for any secure application especially for financial systems and yet it relies of an old and weak mechanism called username and passwords.
Authorization is process all secure systems needs to implement but still most of today’s system relies on a role base authorization, a very simple and primitive mechanism
Identity 2.0 are a set of technologies that brings authorization and authentication to 21th century with strong credential and powerful claim based authorization.
In this talk we will introduce identity 2.0 and learn how to enhance authentication and authorization in our applications.

Manu Cohen-Yashar is an international expert in application security and distributed systems.
Currently consulting to various enterprises worldwide, architecting SOA based secure reliable and scalable solutions.
As an experienced and acknowledged architect Mr Cohen-Yashar was hosted by Ron Jacobs in an ARCast show and spoke about interoperability issues in the WCF age.

Mr Cohen-Yashar is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and
trained thousands of IT professionals worldwide.
Mr Cohen-Yashar is the founder of an interoperability group in cooperation with Microsoft Israel in which distributed system experts meet and discuss interoperability issues. http://www.interopmatters.com/
A wanted speaker in international conventions, Mr Cohen-Yashar lectures on distributed system technologies, with specialization on WCF In which he is considered one of the top experts in Israel.
Manu won the best presentation award in CONQUEST 2007.

Mr Cohen-Yashar is currently spending much of his time bringing application security into the development cycle of major software companies (Amdocs, Comverse, Elbit, IEI, The Israeli defense System…)

Mr Cohen-Yashar is giving consulting services on security technologies and methodologies (SDL etc)
Mr Cohen-Yashar is known as one of the top distributed system architects in Israel. As such he offers lectures and workshops for architects who want to specialize in SOA, and leads the architecture process of many distributed projects.