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- 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
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- HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely
- HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., HP Software, IT Department, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- OpenID, meet the U.S. government
- In other words...IOW, these vendors are colluding with the government on a "bar code on your forehead" type identity plan. Won't be long now...this "identity" will be require to buy or sell...as prophesied long ago....Yep!Just like MS tried and failed!You ALREADY can't do anything without a Passport, Picture ID,...
- Tags: Government, OpenID, U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Google OpenID's it up with Google Apps
- Google has announced that users can now sign into third party websites (that implement the Google's OpenID Federated Login API) with their Google Apps account. OpenID is a secure and private SSO technology that is slowly, but surely being adopted. Some of the websites that are...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Google OpenID, Ping Identity, Cloud Computing, Web Site Development, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Technology, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- A Developer's Guide to the Microsoft .NET Access Control Service: Access Control in the Cloud
- The goal of this whitepaper is to show developers how to use a claims-based identity model and the Microsoft .NET Access Control Service - part of the Microsoft .NET Services family - to implement single sign-on, federated identity, and role based access control in Web applications and services. Microsoft .NET...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Corp., Access Control, Microsoft .NET Services, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Achieving Privacy in a Federated Identity Management System
- Federated identity management allows a user to efficiently authenticate and use identity information from data distributed across multiple domains. The sharing of data across domains blurs security boundaries and potentially creates privacy risks. The paper examines privacy risks and fundamental privacy protections of federated identity-management systems. The protections include minimal...
- Tags: Identity Federation, Privacy, Privacy Protection, Federated Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security
- White papers 2009-03-27
- Why the password system hasn't died (yet)
- Identity management is one helluva paradox. In your daily work life you don't sweat things like smart cards, one-time password tokens and USB tokens. Once you go home as a consumer you're straining to remember your 20th log-in and password. Google's Cem Paya, who serves on the...
- Tags: Password, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Employee HR Intranet Is Protected by Suite of RSA Security Solutions
- In a fast-paced financial services environment, employees need to be as efficient as possible. Waiting on crowded phone lines for information about 401k accounts, health insurance plans or vacation status obviously cut heavily into their productivity. An intranet that provided simple yet secure access would let employees quickly retrieve the...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Human Resources Inc., 401(k), Retirement Plans, Security Administration, Human Resources, Benefits, Security
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- 5 Steps to Secure Internet SSO
- Employees today may need to access up to thirty different applications within the enterprise network and over the Internet in the performance of their daily jobs - often with different usernames and passwords for each one. Such a situation is not only cumbersome; it is inherently insecure, being especially vulnerable...
- Tags: Identity Federation, Ping Identity, Internet
- White papers 2008-11-13
- Federated Identity and Software as a Service (SaaS): Single Sign-On to the Cloud
- As companies seek efficient ways to cut costs, many are turning to Software as a Service SaaS as an option for outsourcing certain types of IT services, like sales management, human resource management, customer relations management and more. IT implications for SaaS adoption include new provisioning and security challenges, as...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, Identity Federation, Single Sign-on, Ping Identity, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2008-11-04
- The National Ministry of Education Relies Upon RSA to Rationalise Identity Management
- The French Ministry of Education is made up of 1,255,698 employees spread across 30 local education authorities. It incorporates 9,636 colleges and lycees, and 55,667 ecoles, equating to 12 million school children and 2.2 million college students. As part of the state's mission to make information systems accessible to the...
- Tags: Education, RSA Security Inc., Identity Management, French Ministry Of Education, Authentication/Encryption, Security Administration, Security
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?
- Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?Yes... in theoryAlright, to ansswer your question, I believe Microsoft has an answer, in theory. We need to see it work in the real world.This will work, if for example, I am user A, and I own Data A. And User B is...
- Tags: RSS, Ozzie, User B, Hailstorm, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Azure
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Geneva
- Today's codename-contest submission is "Geneva," one of a growing number of Swiss codenames in the Microsoft family. Geneva is related to Zermatt, a previously disclosed Redmond name and, like Zermatt, has to do with federated identity. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Geneva, Codename, Microsoft Corp., Zermatt, Digital Security, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- The Primer: Nuts and Bolts of Federated Identity Management
- For any IT department, it is imperative to understand how organization can securely manage and control users' identities. With so many employees accessing up to thirty different resources over the Internet to do their daily jobs - often with thirty different usernames and passwords - organizations are struggling to maintain...
- Tags: Identity Federation, Ping Identity
- White papers 2008-07-31
- The Fastest Way to Scale Your Business to Business SSO Connections: PingFederate Auto-Connect
- This paper is written for project managers, product managers, identity architects and security architects who are considering large-scale deployments of secure Internet single sign-on. SAML-based federated identity has a proven track record for creating secure and reliable SSO connections between federation partners. However, organizations envisioning dozens, hundreds or even thousands...
- Tags: SAML, Scalability, B2B, Ping Identity, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-07-31
- SSO Over the Internet: The CISO's Misperceptions and Realities
- Ping Identity conducted anonymous interviews of seventeen Chief Information Security Officers CISOs and Information Security Officers across financial services, healthcare, education, insurance and business services. What it learned was surprising: many of the survey participants share three common misperceptions about secure Internet Single Sign-On SSO. This paper identifies those misperceptions...
- Tags: Information Security, Identity Federation, Officer, Survey, Single Sign-on, Ping Identity, Internet, Authentication/Encryption, Security Administration, Security
- White papers 2008-07-31
- On Identity-Aware Devices: Putting Users in Control Across Federated Services
- This paper describes R&D work on "Identity-aware Devices", in the context of federated services. The aim is to put users in control of their credentials and identities and enable simple, secure, trustworthy and transparent access to federated services. Current users' experience in networked and federated services is difficult and painful,...
- Tags: Aware, Credential, Identity, Current User, PDAs, Handhelds, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-26
- Standards support for mashups emerge
- The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing...
- Tags: Standards, Mashup, DataPortability.org, OpenSAM, OpenSAM Vision, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Assurance for Federated Identity Management
- Federated Identity Management is an emerging paradigm that is rightly getting a lot of standardization and research attention. One aspect that is not receiving enough attention is assurance. The paper provides an exposition of the assurance process, how it applies to identity management and particularly to federated identity management. Their...
- Tags: Identity Federation, Federated Identity Management
- White papers 2008-03-20
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