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- OpenID: gone phishing
- [Ed. The OpenID protocol is rapidly gaining momentum in the social networking arena. Exemplifying the momentum OpenID is gaining, Symantec recently announced that it would support OpenID in its Security 2.0 identity offering. As it is gaining visibility the OpenID protocol is being scrutinized more closely by those looking for...
- Tags: General, OpenID
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Demand for post-admission NAC grows
- [Note: Eric is having trouble posting today, and I have posted this article for him. So "I" refers to Eric in this article. - Phil]Prior to the holidays, I had begun to dig into some new briefings around NAC. Specifically, I was looking to hear from Trusted Network Technologies and...
- Tags: NAC, authorization, Identity Engines, identity, network
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- The case for OpenID
- [Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric identity management systems. This article, written by Netmeshs Johannes Ernst and VeriSigns David Recordon explores the "why" of one of these technologies...
- Tags: OpenID, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- The evolving models of security...
- [Note: Eric is having trouble posting, so I posted this article for him - Phil]Phil and I have been speaking a lot recently about the changing of security models in the enterprise. The three basic models actually seem to represent a learning curve that both enterprises and the vendors are...
- Tags: security
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
- A big "small" problem
- Identity management has evolved to provide incredibly granular and flexible capability with respect to managing user logons, authorizations, and access control, provisioning new users and reliably removing access for expired users. Add in delegated and self-service management capabilities plus sophisticated workflow and auditing capabilities to assure policy is followed when...
- Tags: password
- Blog posts 2006-10-06
- Identity substitutes, tokens and proxies
- We frequently use proxies for identity when the real thing is difficult, inconvenient, or unnecessary to validate. This applies especially in the realm of authentication, as the only true identity based authentication technologies available are biometric. Everything else is an approximation of identity validation to some acceptable degree of risk...
- Tags: Adrian
- Blog posts 2006-08-31
- Top 5 Identity Fallacies: #5 Net 2.0 Can Happen Without Solving Identity
- Nearly everyone who has been following the progress of the internet has observed that we are nearing a moment of major change that will affect not only how the net is used, but will create many new business models and alter many current ones. Pieces of this change moment have...
- Tags: identity, Internet, collaboration, disruptive moment, identity problem
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Top 5 Identity Fallacies: #4 Identity is Monolithic
- Those who have been reading these identity fallacies will find a theme emerging from them. That theme is what I refer to as "The Einstein Fallacy." I derive that moniker from the apocryphal comment attributed to Einstein that "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." The...
- Tags: identity
- Blog posts 2006-06-12
- Top 5 Identity Fallacies: #3 Centralized Management Means Centralized Data
- Like the second identity fallacy the identity data centralization fallacy recurs frequently because it seems so logical. It has kept identity management the province of very large companies for many years. Thankfully this is finally changing, albeit somewhat slowly.A significant goal for many identity management initiatives is to gain centralized...
- Tags: identity data
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
- Top 5 Identity Fallacies: #2 Enterprise Identity is Hierarchical
- One point I want to make in this series, is that these identity fallacies don't occur and become ingrained in thinking and technology design because people are stupid. They occur because people tend to see the evolution of computing as one of incremental steps, and rarely note that it is...
- Tags: identity
- Blog posts 2006-05-31
- Top 5 Identity Fallacies: #1 We'll Add It In Later
- One of the most often encountered identity fallacies is that identity can be added into an application later - maybe even by someone else such as "the guys in the IT infrastructure, admin, or security groups." Closely related is believing that much less identity capability will be required by an...
- Tags: Web browser
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- Reaching Critical Mass
- During the dot com boom, one of the most widely referenced business books was Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm. Many back then saw this mostly as the basis for their marketing plan, forgetting that an underlying product was required. But as subsequent books like Malcom Gladwell's Tipping Point indicate, it...
- Tags: identity technology
- Blog posts 2006-05-16
- Doomed from the start
- At Digital ID World we get used to telling the story of identity in the form we like best - talking about all the truly astounding value, capabilities and business models that will be enabled once the internet becomes identity based (where identity here is defined as far more subtly...
- Tags: security, identity
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
- Location vs. Identity: An Example - Pt 1
- In a previous entry I described conceptually why it has become necessary to view networked computing through the identity paradigm rather than the more common location based security paradigms. In this entry, we will examine a sampleA classic location based security approach -- create a walled off area of the...
- Tags: serverS, network
- Blog posts 2006-04-20
- Security, Human Nature and Location
- Business models today require access to be available to the "right people" from anywhere they happen to be, using any medium or device they happen to have available. And there's no turning back from this trend. Networks defeat location based security paradigms beyond a small scale.But security is a requirement,...
- Tags: security
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- Welcome to the Digital ID World blog
- There are many formal definitions of Digital Identity (see here, and here, for examples.) Here at Digital Id World, you will find that Eric and I have one of the largest conceptual views of digital identity and its significance to networked computing that you will find anywhere. Given that, it...
- Tags: identity
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Digital identity with a capital 'I'
- I’m at Digital ID World 2005 conference in San Francisco. Phil Becker, editor in chief of Digital ID World and host of the event, kicked off the event defining his notion of digital identity, with a capital "I." He describes digital identity as the organizing construct for the network regardless...
- Tags: Phil Becker, compliance, digital identity
- Blog posts 2005-05-10
Additional Resources
- Cast Iron's lifecycle SaaS integration play
- A new generation of Cast Iron's SaaS integration appliance adds functionality that now addresses what you might call the SaaS lifecycle: everything from data migration through to cloud-to-cloud integration. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Integration, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How SlideRocket plans to make money
- Unlike so many misguided Web 2.0 startups, SlideRocket is going to ask its users to pay to use its Flex-based on-demand presentation application, and it plans a potentially lucrative add-on marketplace too. I got an exclusive sneak preview of its pricing plans. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Asset, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Billing, Analytics, Aria Systems Inc., SlideRocket, Mitch Grasso, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Planning, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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