Daniel Blum
Senior Vice President and Research Director
Burton Group

Daniel Blum is an expert in information security, identity management and federated identity. Dan has authored or co-authored more than 50 vendor-neutral research reports, and has functioned in the role of a chief security architect for information security technology and identity management at Burton Group. He has consulted for many Global 1000 companies on key strategic architecture and technology decisions. He has participated in and contributed to standards organizations such as the International Information Integrity Institute (I4), Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP), International Standards Organization (ISO) and National Institutes of Standards (NIST). He has worked with technology suppliers, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Syntaxes (OASIS), and Liberty Alliance to promote the use of federated identity management through industry events and interoperability demonstrations. He is also a columnist for Network World, co-author of "The E-mail Frontier," published by Addison-Wesley, 1994 and author of "Understanding Microsoft Active Directory Services," published by Microsoft Press, 2000.