Eugene Kuznetsov is noted as the pioneer in the SOA appliance category and a recognized leader within the XML, Web services and SOA industries. With an innovative vision for the next generation of intelligent network equipment (XML-aware networking or XAN) to secure, rationalize, accelerate and integrate applications, Mr. Kuznetsov was the founder of DataPower in 1999 where he served for three years as president and CTO then as chairman and CTO until IBM's acquisition of DataPower in October 2005. In recognition of his XAN vision and leadership, Mr. Kuznetsov was named one of the "Top 25 Most Influential CTOs" for 2005. Prior to DataPower Mr. Kuznetsov consulted for numerous companies including Microsoft on a variety of projects in the areas of memory management, power electronics, JIT compilers, optimized execution engines and application integration. Eugene is a well-regarded speaker appearing at numerous conferences and events including Digital ID World, JAVAOne, NetSec, NATO C3 Agency, HPWorld, CIO Council XML.gov Working Group, Web Services DevCon, MITRE XML Day, NECINA, Web Services Edge, Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit, the IT Security & Privacy Conference, and ITTC 2004. Mr. Kuznetsov holds a BSEE from MIT.
It is a welcome sign of XML's success that it increasingly appears in
unexpected places and concerns an everbroadening set of people. Those of you
who were involved with XML technology in the early days or who bravely
pioneered XML in your organizations years ago may be bewildered by this, and
wonder whether all of these "other" people really understand what XML is all
about. The major change is that for the business people, the question has now
irrevocably become "When XML?" not "XML?". Plugging our ears to keep out the
din of marketing noise, let's take a quick tour of the unexpected places
you'll find XML.
XML in Firewalls
It is quite natural to ask "Huh? What does XML have to do with firewalls?".
XML is quickly becoming part of the network security infrastructure for three
major reasons. First, XML Web services were designed to bypass the existing
firewalls and... (more)
The ability to establish identities across domains to partners and customers
is driving Web services security-related issues and standards, such as SAML
and WS-Security. In this session we will discuss how federated identity is
being used in Web services and will outline the security-related issues, the
standards and specifications involved, and the importance in the growth of
Web services. Finally, attendees will learn how SAML and WS-Security are
being used for federated authentication and authorization, as well as how
standards-based policy enforcement points help facilitate c... (more)
XML is, among many other things, a data-encoding standard for network
protocols. What's known as "XML" in the community or the trade press is
actually a large collection of protocols and data-handling systems that use
XML-encoded packets or instructions.
SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI, BXXP, XSLT/XPath, XML DSig, XML Enc, SAML, XSD - despite
their disparate purposes and higher-level complexities, the one requirement
they share is the need to parse, and process, XML. If XML is a new protocol,
just as HTTP was in the Web's infancy, it's not hard to see that a new breed
of intelligent network... (more)
Even today, I'm frequently faced with those who are disappointed at the
progress of XML and Web services. My stock answer to skeptical questions
about XML adoption is to talk instead about the "Adoption:Hype" ratio and
agree that its value is at or near zero. The many successful projects cannot
possibly match the infinite hype associated with the technologies.
Often, the enthusiasm of even the most technical groups outpaces what can
actually be achieved in production given the readiness of the software
packages, required standards, corporate politics, and developer tools. What
i... (more)
Eugene Kuznetsov is noted as the pioneer in the SOA appliance category and a recognized leader within the XML, Web services and SOA industries. With an innovative vision for the next generation of intelligent network equipment (XML-aware networking or XAN) to secure, rationalize, accelerate and integrate applications, Mr. Kuznetsov was the founder of DataPower in 1999 where he served for three years as president and CTO then as chairman and CTO until IBM's acquisition of DataPower in October 2005. In recognition of his XAN vision and leadership, Mr. Kuznetsov was named one of the "Top 25 Most Influential CTOs" for 2005. Prior to DataPower Mr. Kuznetsov consulted for numerous companies including Microsoft on a variety of projects in the areas of memory management, power electronics, JIT compilers, optimized execution engines and application integration. Eugene is a well-regarded speaker appearing at numerous conferences and events including Digital ID World, JAVAOne, NetSec, NATO C3 Agency, HPWorld, CIO Council XML.gov Working Group, Web Services DevCon, MITRE XML Day, NECINA, Web Services Edge, Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit, the IT Security & Privacy Conference, and ITTC 2004. Mr. Kuznetsov holds a BSEE from MIT.
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