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Debating the state of user-centric identity

Every now and then a technical disagreement betrays the state of a marketplace. That phenomenon is currently happening in the user-centric identity trenches.The players are Kim Cameron (InfoCards/CardSpace) of Microsoft on one side and Dick Hardt OpenID of Sxip Identity on the other. The issue: Kims recent allegations that...

Tags: General, centric identity, identity

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Internet Identity Workshop and interop

Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be doing another installment of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2006b) in December. Were back at Computer History Museum, Dec 4-6. The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. User-centric identity starts with the...

Tags: General, IT Management, Security, Web Technology, Internet Identity Workshop, IIW 2005, identity

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Asking the right questions about identity

We started the Internet Identity Workshop this afternoon at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The first day was intended to be tutorial. We expected 50 people, counted 80 yesterday, and ended up with over 100 who came this afternoon. The additional participation was great...

Tags: centric identity, identity

Blog posts 2006-05-01

Additional Resources

Developers and Identity Services - Bridging Usability and Transparency With Role Provider Service

Service-Oriented Security SOS aligns with the overall Application-Centric approach of the entire Oracle Fusion Middleware platform - with the goal of providing a comprehensive, standards-based, developer-friendly platform. By leveraging and sharing many of the common Identity Services, SOS allows developers to spend the effort on where it counts the most...

Tags: Developer, Oracle Corp., Service, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2009-04-01

Microsoft

MicrosoftNo man can serve two masters......is the way Jesus put it 2000 years ago. The problem MS has faced since 1981 and has never really come to grips with, is which set of customers are to get top priority?. The conflict between MS, the OS developer, and MS,...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Federated Identity Management: An Overview of Single Sign-On Standards

At one point, federated identity management suffered from an unusual problem: too many standards initiatives. Fortunately, these efforts have consolidated to the point where one has two options. This webcast explores the history of identity federation, early efforts to address multiple use cases, and the consolidation of those efforts into...

Tags: Identity Federation, Standards, Single Sign-on, Ping Identity, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Webcasts 2009-01-01

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Why You Want WebEx Connect or Beehive

First there was Notes and then Exchange. This week the collaboration suite space got a lot more competitive with both Cisco and Oracle introducing new collaboration suites.  This morning Cisco will announce WebEx Connect as part of a broader Unified Communications push that also...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, BEA Beehive, Cisco Systems Inc., Exchange, WebEx Connect, Groupware, Collaboration, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-09-24

The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS

The layered approach ... my wish for a future OSSounds a lot like BSD to me....BSD (and therefore Mac OS/X) has much the same structure as the one you describe. Indeed this structure has some inherent advantages.However, in practice BSD doesn't have a stability or reliability advantage over Linux. Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OS Model, operating system, BSD

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computers

Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computersNot sure about the whole pledge idea.I in no way have any clue about the actual state of ethics in the recycling business; but if I pledge to not export to developing countries, and instead export to, say, a company in Germany, and then...

Tags: Business ethics, recycling, Greenpeace, job, computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Breaking away from ERP as bookkeeping

Most traditional business software revolves around transactions â€" the movements recorded in purchase orders, stock movements, bills of materials, invoices, journals and every other document that has evolved to record business operations over the past several centuries. But this is a roundabout way of representing reality that has evolved through...

Tags: Asset, Payroll, ERP, Procurement, Workday, Operational Accounting, Purchasing & Procurement, Asset Management, Finance, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-20

User Centric Identity Management

Identity management is traditionally seen from the service providers' point of view, meaning that it is an activity undertaken by the service provider to manage service user identities. Traditional identity management systems are designed to be cost effective and scalable primarily for the service providers, but not necessarily for the...

Tags: Service Provider, Identity Management, University Of Queensland, Identity Management System, Authentication/Encryption, Security Administration, Business Services, Security

White papers 2008-05-05

Questioning IT

This is the 16th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic Two: Maintaining Information Integrity Mainframe and Client-Server Architectures...

Tags: CIO, PC, Information Technology, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Mainframes, Security, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Meshing the desktop into the cloud

I'm often harsh on Microsoft, but I'm going to lighten up now that it's introduced Live Mesh (great coverage at Liveside, a useful ten points from Mary Jo, more at Techmeme). One of the misconceptions people often have about the Web is that exists 'out there', as...

Tags: Web, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Mesh, Zintel, Mesh Account Service, Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh

Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...

Tags: Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-22

CA and Microsoft Support for User-Centric Identity and the Identity Metasystem

This paper discusses the Identity Metasystem, Windows CardSpace and CA SiteMinder Information Card Authentication Scheme ICAS. After reviewing the existing problems encountered when managing digital identity, this paper introduces the Identity Metasystem, defines its architectural components, then describes how Microsoft Windows CardSpace and CA SiteMinder ICAS can be used together...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computer Associates International Inc., Identity, B2C, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

White papers 2008-04-01

The end of software...

...as you know it. Right now I'm falling over startup vendors vying for attention in the so-called 'social software' space. The fact enterprise people hate the term doesn't seem to bother those who are bypassing IT as they sell into the marketing departments of companies at departmental budget prices. But...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-19

User Provisioning and Access Compliance for Microsoft Environments

To address these key business priorities, today's IT budgets include significant funding for specific solutions such as password management, user provisioning, automated access compliance and role management. While the best known characteristic of IT infrastructures in general is their heterogeneity, many have turned to Microsoft as their strategic technology provider....

Tags: User Provisioning, Microsoft Access, Environment, Compliance, Courion Corp., Microsoft Corp.

White papers 2008-03-07

Identity Management: The Seven Flaws of Identity Management - Usability and Security Challenges

Identity management systems' scale and complexity, combined with the privacy and security requirements demanded of them, create steep challenges for usability. In this paper, the authors posit seven flaws or design challenges that must be met for the general public to accept and use identity management systems. To meet the...

Tags: Flaw, Identity Management, Identity Management System, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2008-03-01