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Global warming of the identity ocean

The big news out of the RSA conference is the announcement of a "marriage" of OpenID and CardSpace. For those that arent up on the inner workings of user-centric identity: CardSpace is Microsofts instantiation of the InfoCards Meta-system that Kim Cameron proposed several years ago; OpenID is a URL-centric identity...

Tags: General, OpenID, Microsoft Windows CardSpace

Blog posts 2007-02-08

SCC tells the mid-market identity story

The RSA conference always serves as one of the two or three windows that the identity community uses to launch new products the other two being Burton Groups Catalyst and our own Digital ID World conference. As such, the weeks leading up to RSA always feature a spate of new...

Tags: General, PMI Group, compliance, SCC

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Brian cracks the identity and web 2.0 problem

I first met Brian Oberkirch at the Syndicate conference in San Francisco in December of 2005. At the time, Im quite sure that he didnt know of my connection to Digital ID World, or identity in general. But, as so often happens in this small world we call "technology", Im...

Tags: General, Brians, Web, Web 2.0, identity

Blog posts 2007-01-22

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

Identity predictions for 2007

Having graded our identity predictions from last year, its time to venture forth into the uncharted waters of 2007. The following are our divinations on what is to come:1. Identity-related acquisitions will slow to a steady pace.The acquisition market for identity companies has been very heated for the past two...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Mergers & Acquisitions, identity, identity management, NAC, acquisition

Blog posts 2006-12-19

Grading our identity predictions from 2006

At the beginning of 2006, we posted a list of predictions over on Digital ID World for the upcoming year in identity. In keeping with our historical tradition, Id like to grade our past performance prior to looking toward the future.Accordingly, Ill grade our predictions on a scale of 1-5...

Tags: identity

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Does authorization equal entitlements?

Back in the early mists of identity time, "identity management" was referred to as "AAA" triple A -- authentication, access control and authorization. Over time, AAA evolved to mean authentication, authorization and acountability. Those were seen as the three large functional categories within what came to be called identity management....

Tags: General

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Federation enters a new phase

Two recent releases in the federated identity marketplace caught my eye -- and may speak to the development of federation deployments:1. Ping Identity announced that the U.S. Department of Justice selected them to provide federation to over 7,300 local law enforcement agencies and 700,000 law enforcement officials. (Disclosure: I was...

Tags: Web services, federation, identity federation, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Who is an identity-based NAC vendor?

Network Access Control ("NAC") was an emerging focus at last Septembers Digital ID World conference. The reason for including NAC in the agenda arose from my belief fueled by talks with enterprises that network-layer identity management was an area that is fast becoming an important piece of enterprise architecture. In...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Will web 2.0 identity make the same mistake?

Two things have caught my eye recently both on Dan Farbers blog:1. Mashery launching: an API management service that offers, among other, things "access control."2. Intels Web 2.0 Business Suite: a suite of content management and distribution mechanisms that offers "single sign on" across the various applications.All of this reminds...

Tags: General, Web 2.0, identity

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Additional Resources

Anonymity and identity

Anonymity and identitydefaultsEric, defaults are not binary. They are a way of talking about a baseline expectation and what requires justification in a highly non-binary world. So, let me take it out of sw lingo. In the real world, and currently on line, you need a special reason to...

Tags: identity

Discussion threads 2006-08-10

The Friends-and-Family Era

Dave Winer has done a lot of smart technology development, but I'd look somewhere else for ideas about how to fix venture capital. In a much-talked about posting, Winer says the associates, partners and general partners in venture funds who sweep"Web 2.0" is the Friends-and-Family era...

Tags: Dave

Blog posts 2006-01-30