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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
- 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
- Responding to Dana's views on federated identity
- Blog note: This is a guest column that comes to us from Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity corporation.I read with frustration a recent article posted by Dana Blankenhorn titled “Too late for federated identity�. Perhaps my reaction was mostly to the title, which assumed to make broad stroke assessments...
- Tags: federated identity, identity federation
- Blog posts 2006-09-01
- 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
- Should the online world reflect the "real" world?
- Much is being written around the thread of conversation that David Weinberger started and I responded to. I resolved long ago never to speak publicly about "privacy," as the conversation seems to immediately dive into a black-hole of nothingness. However, at the risk of falling into the same hole around...
- Tags: anonymity
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- 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
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