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1. Getting Smart About Identity and Access Management

   [ Blog ] Topic: Identity Management | Author: RalphDeFrangesco | Date Published: 05/31/2009

   Over the next month, I'll be posting about identity and access management. Identity and access management is such an important topic today; I believe if we could come up with a successful solution, we could solve the majority of security breaches that occur. That being said, let's start with the ...

2. Identifying Identity and Access Management Standards

   [ Blog ] Topic: Identity Management | Author: RalphDeFrangesco | Date Published: 06/11/2009

   In recent posts, I mentioned the SAML and WS-Federation standards. Since these are the prevailing industry standards, I think that it's important that we discuss them to gain a firm understanding of what they are, who developed them, and why they are important. SAML is the Security Assertion...

3. Intellectual Property Theft and the Role of IT

   [ Blog ] Topic: Identity Management | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 10/16/2009

   Every time there is a report of some major theft of intellectual capital, all eyes invariably turn back to the IT department. And the question that usually gets asked is that with all the money we spend on security, how could this happen? The latest company asking this question is Ford Motor Co.,...

4. OpenID Grows as Questions Linger

   [ Blog ] Topic: Passwords | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 01/23/2008

   One key to the continuing expansion of the commercial Internet is simplification. As peoples' lives move online, they accumulate too many passwords and user names to remember. In that context, the announcement last week that Yahoo is supporting OpenID 2.0 -- a standard that enables a single...

5. Data Loss Prevention Seeks to Define Itself and Find Its Niche

   [ Blog ] Topic: Data Loss Prevention | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 04/09/2008

   Data loss prevention (DLP) is one of the better category names simply because it does such a good job of describing what the technology is meant to do. The current dynamic in the sector is well framed in this InfoWorld story . The first-generation DLP products didn't get wide deployment and the...

6. IBM Sends Another Identity Tool to Higgins

   [ Blog ] Topic: Identity Management | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 01/26/2007

   Big Blue's loss is the Higgins Project 's gain -- but then again, IBM isn't really losing anything, and a gain for Higgins is actually a gain for the open source community as a whole. IBM just donated its Identity Mixer to the Higgins project, which is geared toward making various...

7. Higgins: A 'Switzerland' of Identity Management

   [ Blog ] Topic: Identity Management | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 01/29/2007

   When we think about identity management in the open source space, two names immediately come to mind: Bandit and Higgins. Both are projects that we have kept an eye on since their inception , both are at least supported by Novell, and both were begun in response to Microsoft offerings. (Higgins...

8. Microsoft Bankrolls Four Open Source Identity Projects

   [ Blog ] Topic: Microsoft | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 05/29/2007

   According to this Ars Technica piece , Microsoft has expanded its Open Specification Promise to include its Identity Selector Interoperability Profile. Moreover, the software giant will reportedly fund four new open source projects aimed at "helping Web site owners make their sites identity...

9. How Friendly Is Open Source?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Open Source Enterprise Software | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 04/03/2008

   silicon.com writer and IT analyst Martin Brampton says the open source movement isn't as collaboration-friendly as its proponents would like you to think. How can that be, when open source development is all about sharing code and helping each other fix bugs or develop programs? It's all in...

10. Face Key to Unlocking New NEC Laptops

    [ Blog ] Topic: Biometric Systems | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 09/05/2007

    Now, here's a nifty laptop security feature: Two series of laptops from NEC will ship with an integrated facial recognition system called "face pass." Or, at least, that's what it'll be called when it's sold in Europe or the U.S. But since the laptops are debuting in Japan, the correct name is...

11. Secure Patient Records Closer to Being a Reality

    [ Blog ] Topic: Identity Management | Author: RalphDeFrangesco | Date Published: 01/12/2009

    PhoneFactor , a manufacturer of security products and services, has developed a system that gives organizations the ability to add two-factor authentication to any application. SecureFactor recently signed two more clients in the medical industry that have adopted its service to protect patient...

12. FiXs: One Security/Credit Card to Rule Them All at the 2012 Olympics

    [ Blog ] Topic: Identity Management | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 08/02/2007

    I'm a big Lord of the Rings fan, and if you live on this planet you've likely either read the books or seen the movies. The central component of the story is a set of rings that identified the leaders of various races and gave them powers (permissions) and one ring that dominated them. In the...