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EIC 2008: Takeaways from Europe's biggest identity event

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2008-06-13 08:19:15 by Bill Nagel in Security & Risk Management
Several weeks on and I'm still digesting the massive amount of information and insight from the second European identity conference in Munich, organized by Kuppinger Cole. Five days chock-full of content (7 am to 7 pm every day!), 50 exhibitors, 130 speakers, four workshop tracks, five theme tracks, and 25 best-practice sessions. Hundreds of...
 
Tags: identity, information, information risk management, user-centric identity, iam, iam implementation, effective information security, implement iam, holistic iam context
 
 
 
 
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Ping Identity acquires Sxip Identity

2008-03-11 12:31:57 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
Ping Identity announced that it acquired Sxip Identity for an undisclosed sum. The rationale of the acquisition is to allow Ping Identity's products to meet enterprise-wide, typically SSO challenges. This is important to be able to further extend Ping's market share with software-as-a-service providers. Is it a breakthrough? Hardly. Questions...
 
Tags: identity, sxip identity, identity management, iam, iam arena, vendors, role vendors, forge strategic partnerships, iam suite
 
 
 
 
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The Venn of Identity: Options and Issues in Federated Identity Management

2008-05-22 06:22:46 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Digital identities can be associated with everything from people to software applications to entire companies, but human digital identities prove the most interesting and challenging. Human digital identities can simplify network usage and enable new classes of applications, but they also introduce security and privacy risks. Federated identity...
 
Tags: identity, identity management, identity tasks, human digital identities, digital identities, privacy risks, distribute identity information, software applications, applications
 
 
 
 
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OpenID family grows How it can transform Identity Federation between enteprises

2008-02-07 14:06:33 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
With Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! joining the OpenID Foundation, we may actually feel that something in federated access management is going to change. It is finally not the case of a vendor proposing a new standard and adding to the cacophony of federation standards but a set of moves towards a simple technology that today can...
 
Tags: openid, openid foundation, openid camp, accept openid authentication, integration, strong authentication integration, identity federations proliferation, simple technology, technology
 
 
 
 
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Portable Identity and the BBC

2008-04-29 14:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
We've spoken about OpenID before on this blog (see entries from 9 Feb 2008 and 7 Feb 2007 ) and I've been quite enthusiastic about the prospects for this "open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." It seems that the BBC have seen the potential and joined the OpenID foundation. Jem Stone , on his blog, makes the bold...
 
Tags: portable identity, identity, user-centric digital identity, bbc, mobile phone, future plans, future, openid, openid foundation
 
 
 
 
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Use Cases for Identity Management in E-Government

2008-05-22 06:22:47 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
E-government provides a special and complex use case for identity management systems, first because the needs of some parts of the government (such as law enforcement and national security) are often at odds with the service-oriented aspects of government, and second because of the unique role government plays in the life of the citizen. The...
 
Tags: e-government, government, identity management systems, zealand implementation differs, zealand, history strongly affect, identity management system, law enforcement, authors discuss
 
 
 
 
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Identity Framework Probable Feature List

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2007-12-16 06:42:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
Vittorio has just concluded a series of posts where he's sharing a sneak preview of the Identity Framework (Fx for this post). Based on what he's shown and his descriptions, I've put together a little list of some features we can probably expect from the Fx. This is all pre-alpha stuff and the API will probably change, but the core features...
 
Tags: informationcard login control, login control, information card serializer, information, control, user authentication methods, user, custom sts, card
 
 
 
 
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Ping automates identity federation in new server

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by John Fontana in Network World on Security
 
Ping Identity on Tuesday added features to automatically create connections between partners to support single sign-on as part of the next release of its identity federation server
 
Tags: identity, identity federation server, support single sign-on, connections, features, release, tuesday, partners
 
 
 
 
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Identity vendor Ping adds to wares to support SaaS

2008-03-11 00:00:00 by John Fontana in Network World on Security
 
Ping Identity Tuesday added to its tools for supporting single sign-on to online services by acquiring appliance-based technology from Sxip Identity for integrating hosted applications and corporate directories Protecting the Enterprise Network Through Web Security Advertisement New focus is being placed on securing Web-based threats
 
Tags: enterprise network, sxip identity, web security, single sign-on, identity tuesday, online services, advertisement, directories, tools
 
 
 
 
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Identity overload: complacency breeding fraudster paradise

2008-05-20 00:00:00 by