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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

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

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

Understanding "identity management"

Paul Murphy has been writing about identity management over on his Managing Linux blog. His basic thesis is that while most CIOs now are putting "identity management" as a top priority, most also can't tell you what "identity management" is. The reason, says Paul, is that most CIOs are informed...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, identity management, identity

Blog posts 2006-11-01

A tipping point?

Way back in the early mists of identity time, I was speaking with Bryan Field-Elliott then CTO of Ping Identity about the earliest drafts of the Liberty Alliance protocols, and whether or not they could be used for what we then called "internet identity." (Note: "internet identity" is now called...

Tags: internet identity, OpenID, identity

Blog posts 2006-10-20

Identity and social business applications

John Milan has written an interesting piece about "social business applications" over on Read/Write web. He begins by defining "social business applications" as "software that coordinates group interaction that is important to running your business" -- a bit amorphous but workable definition. He then goes on to rightly identify "identity"...

Tags: social business application, identity

Blog posts 2006-10-12

Digital ID World recap: final thoughts

Its now almost a full month since Digital ID World is over and done, and my thoughts about what happened are finally starting to coalesce. "Starting" - I said, and this post I hope reflects that beginning. The primary "big move" that Im coming away with is the idea that...

Tags: metaphor, identity

Blog posts 2006-10-09

Digital ID World recap, part 2

A recap, part 2 I'm continuing my "what I learned at Digital ID World" series that I started yesterday. What I learned about Network Access Control NAC network access control and identity was my pet project for this show. I tried to get our audience, which are traditionally application-layer...

Tags: Digital ID World, VeriSign Digital ID, NAC

Blog posts 2006-09-20

Digital ID World recap, part 1

A recap, part 1 With Digital ID World in the books as a success, I always like to take a look back at "what I learned." As an organizer of the conference, Digital ID World is always a whirlwind experience for me, but I find that as I look back...

Tags: identity

Blog posts 2006-09-19

Identity's big tent

I've mentioned in passing that we run a conference -- Digital ID World -- but now, as we're a little more than two weeks out from the show, it seemed appropriate to explain what's going on there. We started the show back in 2002, right about the time that...

Tags: Digital ID World, VeriSign Digital ID, identity

Blog posts 2006-08-24

Anonymity and identity

In the very near wake of a foiled terrorist plot, I find myself waking up, planning to write about the topic of anonymity and identity. The original impetus for my post is a recent article by David Weinberger. In that article, David argues for anonymity as a "default" in the...

Tags: anonymity, identity

Blog posts 2006-08-10

Roles: driving network access control

In my quest to understand the dynamics of how NAC and identity management are intersecting, I've been reaching out to vendors in the NAC space. To be clear, I view this NAC "space" as a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum, we have folks like Applied Identity, Identity Engines...

Tags: NAC, identity

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Why NAC is about Identity

If you've spoken with me lately about Digital ID World, then you've heard me give my spiel on Network Access Control NAC - and why its so important to identity. This week, two things are bringing this topic back up for me:1. I had someone who is pretty familiar with...

Tags: identity

Blog posts 2006-07-14

Rounding third and heading for home

Coming out of the Major League Baseball's All-star break, I'm reminded of the fact that it is July, and the digital identity industry is now "headed for home" on the calendar year. With that in mind, a brief report on the first part of the year seems to be in...

Tags: identity

Blog posts 2006-07-12

EMC: another domino in the identity game

EMC joined the identity party with their announced acquisition of RSA Security for just under $2.1 billion USD. The acquisition has confused stock analysts, prompted security folks to point out that this is not industry consolidation, and had Dan Farber wondering if a a hydra was being created. At the...

Tags: EMC Corp., identity

Blog posts 2006-06-30

Google's authentication vs. Microsoft's Live ID

Recent announcements of Google's authentication service have prompted comparisons to Passport, and even gotten to Dick Hardt (of "Identity 2.0" fame) to call it the, "deepening of the identity silo." I'd like to contrast Google's work with Microsoft's recent work around Live ID. Microsoft's Live ID *is* the old...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Passport

Blog posts 2006-06-29