SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from K. Scott Morrison, Layer 7 Technologies, on How to Fail at SOA

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The SOA Consortium™ today announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by K. Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, on “How to Fail at SOA,” recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-ksm

Calling on Layer 7 Technologies’ six years of experience Scott warned meeting attendees about repeated patterns of bad practices, pitfalls and bad decisions. Focused in the security realm, Scott reenacted customer scenarios that highlighted breakdowns with goals, teams, planning, knowledge and physical design. For each identified problem, or anti-pattern, Scott provided insights on how SOA practitioners can recover from, or better yet, avoid the pitfall. These insights covered a wide range, including proper understanding of security standards, security design tips, skills, team composition, training, and business outcome identification. Scott pointed out how SOA based implementations – with their highly distributed, cross stack natures – bring together a diverse group of new stakeholders that must collaborate for success.

In closing, Scott encouraged attendees to treat security and management as first class citizens of SOA efforts, rather than falling into the trap of patchwork retrofitting.

To hear all of the insights Scott Morrison presented, download the 46-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-ksm.

About the Speaker

Scott Morrison is the VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he is leading a team to develop the next generation of security infrastructure for Web services. An architect and developer of highly scalable, enterprise systems for over 15 years, he has extensive experience across industry sectors as diverse as health, travel and transportation, and financial services. Scott has also been a Director of Architecture and Technology at Infowave Software, a maker of wireless security and acceleration software for mobile devices, and held senior architect positions with IBM. Before shifting to the private sector, he spent a number of years at the world-renowned medical research program of the University of British Columbia, studying neurodegenerative disorders using medical imaging technology. Scott is a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker. He has published over 50 book chapters, magazine articles, and papers in medical, physics, and engineering journals. He is the recent co-author of Java Web Services Unleashed and Professional JMS. Scott is an editor of the WS-I Basic Security Profile, as well as a co-author of the WS-Federation specification. His current interests are in Web services security, secure mobile computing, grid systems, and enterprise system architectures.

Next Meeting; Information

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About the SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

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About Layer 7 Technologies

Layer 7 Technologies markets a complete set of XML appliances and software with the objective of making web services available in an easy, secure and scalable manner. Web services are applications that add functionality via the Internet to other applications by using standard XML data formats such as SOAP, REST, AJAX and RSS. Modern SOA models and Internet-based application delivery models are entirely dependent on effectively dealing with issues such as performance, security, complexity, reliability and availability with shared web services that are shared with other applications. Layer 7 Technologies is fully focused on solutions in the area of "application-oriented security" and network infrastructures in order to provide service-oriented and web-oriented architectures (such as SOA and Web 2.0) which are required for "the next wave of Internet and software innovation." For more information go to www.layer7tech.com.