It’s that time of year again… time for another beautiful late-summer Gartner Catalyst conference in America’s Finest City: San Diego. Aside from being my hometown, the reason San Diego is so great is that it has balance. The warm sun is balanced by the cool ocean breeze, the strong business climate is balanced by the laid-back surf culture and the delicious fish tacos are balanced by a cold Corona. Balance makes everything better. Maintaining this balance is just as important when you’re talking about mobile strategy for your enterprise; that’s why I’ll be presenting a talk titled Balancing Security & Developer Enablement in Enterprise Mobility at Catalyst.
Enterprise IT security departments have always had a somewhat adversarial relationship with application developers, even when the applications ran entirely within the intranet. Now that internal data and applications are being exposed to employees, partners and customers through a whole new breed of mobile apps, these teams could potentially clash even more often. Security architects are more concerned than ever about core principles and security standards while developers are more focused than ever on providing incredible user experience rather than worrying about internal restrictions.
I’ll be discussing how these two groups – enterprise and security architects on one side and mobile app developers on the other – can accomplish the same goals. CA’s Layer 7 API Management solutions enable the enterprise to enforce the latest security specifications to the letter, protecting against malicious (or even accidental) threats to critical systems. But at the same time, they enable mobile app developers to very quickly consume the appropriate data through secure APIs, without having to implement the client side of those cutting-edge security standards. Stop by my talk on August 12 at 12:45pm to get the details or come by the Layer 7 booth (#113) to talk in more depth about how we can bring balance to your workplace.
