More SOA at the WebSphere Tech Exchange

This morning is more back to back Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) session at the WebSphere Tech Exchange. The first session, SOA Best Practices, suffered from some of the same deficiencies from the first day: unreadable slides and rambling information (to me at least). not enough clear communication of real best practices case studies. The current session, SOA Security, has much better content but is almost too much information. The speaker, Tony Cowan of IBM, has touched on compliance and governance issues in this session. But he has not directly brought up Federated Identity. He has danced around it a bit, but not yet called it out by name. Alas, he also has slideware that is too cluttered and totally unreadable from the back 1/3 of the room.