A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control: Authentication and Authorization for Services and the Web Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

Dominick Baier splits his time between being an independent security consultant and an instructor for DevelopMentor - teaching and authoring the ASP.NET and the .NET security curriculum. He has a degree in computer science (German Diplom Ingenieur), is a certified BS7799/ISO17799 Lead Auditor and speaks at various conferences (WinDev, DevWeek, ADC) about application security. When not teaching he spends his time researching security, doing audits and penetration tests and helps other developers around the world to build more secure applications. Dominick maintains a security blog at http: //www.leastprivilege.com.

Vittorio Bertocci is a Senior Architect Evangelist in the Windows Azure Platform Evangelism team with Microsoft(R) Corp. After four years in the Italian Microsoft Consulting Services, Vittorio moved to the U.S. headquarters in Redmond, where he has spent the past four years helping customers deploy solutions based on identity and access management, SOA, and services. He currently focuses on all things identity, working with the developer's community, large enterprises and partners. Vittorio is a published author; he frequently speaks about identity at international conferences and maintains a popular blog at http: //blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci.

Keith Brown is a co-founder of Pluralsight, a premier Microsoft(R) .NET training provider. Keith is the author of Pluralsight's Applied .NET Security course as well as several books, including The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows(R) Security, which is available both in print and on the Web. Learn more at www.pluralsight.com/keith

Matias Woloski is an Enterprise Architect at Southworks S.R.L. He's been involved in software development for 6 yeasr. Currently, he's working with the patterns & practices team at Microsoft(R) in a Scrum-driven project. He maintains a blog at http: //blogs.southworks.net/mwoloski/

Eugenio Pace is a Senior Program Manager in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft(R). He is responsible for developing guidance for migrating and building application for the Windows Azure(R) platform and for Windows(R) Phone 7. Before that he worked on architecture guidance for claims based identity and identity federation. You can find his blog here: http: //blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop and on twitter @eugenio_Pace.