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Sunday, July 29
IBM #1 in Worldwide Identity and Access Management Software Revenue
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced on July 19 that analyst firm IDC has ranked IBM as the worldwide revenue share leader in the identity and access management ...

 Orchid Cellmark to Announce Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
About Orchid Cellmark Orchid Cellmark is a leading provider of identity DNA testing services for the human identity and agriculture markets. ...

Fingerprint system to dish out school lunches
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Before using biometrics, Hope lunch clerks had lists of students' names that had to be checked off if they had paid or were receiving free- or reduced-price ...

IdM Processes...Existing vs. Future
By Ashraf Motiwala(Ashraf Motiwala)
Corbin Links put together a thought provoking post the other day on identity management implementations, and how companies are looking for a magic tool that could resolve their identity management woes, when they should primarily be ...

Online ID Management Project Progresses
PC World - USA
The Liberty Alliance consortium is moving to the next phase of setting protocols for secure online access. The Liberty Alliance Project has started ...

ProfileBuilder.com - Your personal online profile
By rachsig
ProfileBuilder is an online identity management platform that provides a space in which you can create a complete personal profile. You have a lot of control over what goes in the profile and who is able to view it. ...

Saturday, July 28

Futuristic banking on way
The Sun - London,UK
The method of using parts of your body to identify you, called 'biometrics', is already used regularly by the world's security services.

SOA Security: One Treacherous Journey
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Redmond prefers the newer WS-Federation, which is more tightly bound to other Web services standards. Although both use XML, the two are incompatible, ...

Use of Biometrics to Deter Terrorism Slammed by UK's Largest Visa
Press Dispensary (press release) - Brighton,East Sussex,UK
The prime minister has made it clear that biometrics will be collected from all people in the UK, or coming to the UK in future, when applying for a ...

WS-* Security Standards: Too Much Of A Good Thing?
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
WS-Federation 1.1. Uses the security tokens transferred in WS-Trust to authen-ticate to Web services, according to the service's rules as described in ...

Centrify to Be Gold Sponsor of the Directory Experts Conference ...
SBWire (press release) - Green Bay,WI,USA
Centrify will highlight Centrify DirectAudit and DirectControl, Centrify's auditing, access control and identity management solutions which help ...

Biometrics to keep tabs on lazy cops
Times of India - India
The biometrics device uses a touch-screen-based technology which will read thumb impressions and match them with the original records. ...

IAM / IDM Suites & Tools - Implement is Not the Issue
By corbinl
This post discusses an issue that most vendors would just as soon forget -- how do Identity Access Management suites and tool sets become relevant, when organizations do not have enough repeatable or documented process to make the tools ...


What Is Your Provenance?
By scoundrel
Large scale web applications covering identity management, on-demand media and social software have been the main focus of his work. Gavin lives in London and writes on nascent for Nature and on take one onion. ...

Friday, July 27
Education Roundup: Biometrics and web for schools
IT PRO - London,Greater London,UK
This week, Becta gives advice on how best to use fingerprints and other biometrics in schools, universities move to online procurement and more personalised ...

Identity Provisioning Toolkit - OpenPTK
By identity
It is great to see compelling technology as OpenPTK making that possible. Plus, these Sun innovators are also great guys! Technorati Tags: Identity, Digital Identity, Identity Management, Sun Microsystems, OpenPTK.

Digital ID World 2007 Conference
I attended this conference in the past and I found it very useful not only in terms of presentations, but also in terms of networking and opportunity to have an overview of state-of-the-art Identity Management products and solutions, ...

Blogher 07: Identity: Digital exhibitionists or chroniclers of ...
By Susan(Susan)
Listening to the session on digital identity and enjoying the frank discussion of how the bloggers on the panel choose to reveal--and not reveal themselves. JurgenNation author Stacy Campbell is talking about how she's become more ...

Operational Risks: Information Security Governance: Ohio, Indiana ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Corporate identity theft is rampant and a root source of federal crimes against consumers per President's Identity Theft Task Force. ...

Liberty Alliance Announces Two Key Milestones for the Identity ...
Compliance Home - West Des Moines,IA,USA
... for further development based on Liberty's model of collaboratively addressing the technology, business and privacy aspects of identity management. ...

Locals push automation the big boys missed
National Business Review - New Zealand
"Where we sit is a combination of many things: identity management, provisioning, through to service catalogues and service delivery management, ...

Electronic access control systems to reach $6.1 billion by 2010
Military & Aerospace Electronics - Nashua,NH,USA
Biometrics-based electronic access presents enormous opportunities for growth, with the Iris Recognition sub-segment set to witness fastest growth through ...

An open source national ID scheme
By davebirch
Surely this is the way to procure a national identity management scheme. Make the specifications and interfaces open and let anyone who wants to develop new products that use it. This way, not only would the "identity utility" get built ...

AltTech GSA-approved for HSPD-12
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
In addition, Novell Identity Manager 3.5 is the only identity management solution to deliver a high level of integration with advanced authentication, ...

How to Find Anything in LDAP - Part II
By Olga
It is an LDAP v3 directory service using Oracle's Database Management System (DBMS). Oracle Internet Directory serves as the central user repository for Oracle Identity Management, simplifying user administration in the Oracle ...

Thursday, July 26
Digimarc Schedules Conference Call for Aug. 3 to Discuss Second ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Digimarc's digital watermarking technology provides a persistent digital identity for various media content and is used to enhance the security of financial ...

Joseph Steinberg of Green Armor Solutions Wins Coveted Award
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Its Identity Cues series of products leverage a unique blend of psychology and technology to help deliver maximum security with maximum user convenience. ...

 Industry Leaders Submit Identity Governance Framework to ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"Organizations, infrastructure providers and the Web 2.0 community now have a variety of identity governance tools for advancing the Internet's privacy ...

Department of the Bleedin' Obvious
By davebirch
I'd assumed that all that is in the tag is some kind of ID number and that all of the identity management takes place at the back end. Not that this neutralises privacy worries, but let's get the big picture sorted out. ...

Gemalto Reports Revenue for the Second Quarter of 2007
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
All revenue and average selling price variations in this press release are by reference to the second quarter and first half 2006 pro forma revenue and are ...

Intellect incorporates Intellect Association for Biometrics
PublicTechnology.net - UK
IT trade associationIntellect has launched a new working group - the Intellect Association for Biometrics. The group will aim to ensure that both policy ...

OSCON: Open Source Awards 2007
O'Reilly Radar - Sebastopol,CA,USA
David Recordon - Best Strategist OpenID has gone from hack to Internet staple in an incredibly short period of time. Dave Recordon has turned OpenID into a ...

DOD taps FiXs for credentialing
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
... now operational worldwide, "represents a new era for federated identity strategies and clearly shows the commitment of industry and government to build ...

Wednesday, July 25
 Identity framework moves into next phase
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service The Liberty Alliance Project has started developing technical specifications for how companies can protect sensitive ...

Washington Chooses Digimarc to Implement Border Crossing Pilot
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Washington's enhanced driver license system will utilize Digimarc applicant screening solutions to verify an applicant's identity documents; ...

ChosenSecurity to Resell GeoTrust SSL Certificates
dBusinessNews Boston (press release) - Boston,MA,USA
... of the most widely used GeoTrust products and to round out ChosenSecurity's family of digital identity offerings, which secure network communications; ...

Adding muscle to authentication
SC Magazine - London,UK
... technical development process will be modeled on the group's successful introduction of identity specifications for federated identity management. ...

MP slams school biometric guidance
Register - London,England,UK
By Kablenet More by this author An MP has attacked the government's biometrics advice to schools for failing to enshrine in law a parent's right to be ...

The eyes have it
CNN - USA
But there's one smart short-cut: by registering your biometrics data ahead of arrival. That channels you into a separate queue, which is generally much ...

North East firm planning worldwide expansion
bdaily - Newcastle,Tyne and Wear,UK
UK Biometrics Ltd has entered into a three way partnership with Korean partner Keico Hightech Inc, manufacturers of high quality security terminals and New ...

Adding muscle to authentication
SC Magazine - London,UK
The ID-SAFE technical development process will be modeled on the group's successful introduction of identity specifications for federated identity ...

DoD Names FiXs Network the First Federated Enterprise-Wide ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The ability to conduct worldwide identity transactions represents a new era for federated identity strategies and clearly shows the commitment of industry ...

R&D Opportunity: Identity 2.0 and its Impact on the Enterprise ...
Research on Identity Management
What are the implications for existing enterprise Identity Management solutions? What are the implications from a "business-driven IT management" perspective? What are the implications for assurance and risk management? ...

RE: Identity management problems are the same the world over
By jgershater
While Linux, Windows and Solaris are obvious choices, HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD are also supported. https://opends.dev.java.net/ https://www.opends.org/. Re: Identity management problems are the same the world over.


 Guardium Receives RSA Secured (r) Certification From RSA, The ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
RSA SecurID (r) , RSA (r) Access Manager, RSA (r) Digital Certificate Manager RSA (r) Federated Identity Manager, and RSA (r) Key Manager certification programs bring ...

NetPro Announces Seventh Annual Directory Experts Conference
Earthtimes.org - USA
... learn how Microsoft IDA solutions enhance manageability while reducing the cost and complexity of identity and access management across the enterprise. ...

25 July 2007 - EMC Adds Authentication with Security Acquisition
By identityproject
based security vendor specializing in identity management and authentication technology. Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC said Verid has clients that include large financial institutions, telecom providers and retailers. ...

ImageWare Systems to Present at the Canaccord Adams 27 th Annual ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
ImageWare Systems, Inc. (AMEX:IW) is a leading developer of identity management solutions, providing biometric, secure credential and law enforcement ...

Oracle Continues Aggressive Acquisition Campaign
CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
By Barbara Grady Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, California has its own identity management software division, but Oracle said that combining its security ...

Tuesday, July 24
New Identity Governance Framework (IGF) Document - Available Online ...
Research on Identity Management
A new Identity Governance Framework document, titled "Id Governance - Privacy and Access Policy Market Requirements", is now publicly accessible online, in the Liberty Alliance portal:. "This document provides the key business actors, ...

The logic behind physical-access controls
GCN.com
New access-control systems take into account the increasing importance of combining physical and logical security.

CoroWare Launches Infrastructure Optmization Service to Help Small ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
Core IO Implementation Services include: Identity and Access Management, Desktop, Device and Server Management and Data Protection and Recovery. ...

 OpenID IP and Patent concerns
Scott Kveton
Over the past few days there have been several posts about the state of OpenID's intellectual property. I thought I would make a quick post to point folks at some of the progress the OpenID Foundation has been making on this front...

Security at your fingertips
Courier Mail - Australia
With biometrics your finger becomes your key. Haven't we all, at one time or another, come home loaded with shopping bags and fumbled around trying to get ...


Huge new market at firm's fingertips
ic Newcastle.co.uk - Newcastle,England,UK
North Tyneside-based UK Biometrics has joined forces with Korea's leading electronic security terminals maker, Keico Hightech, and North American medical ...

OpenID simplifies recalling online passwords
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA
That's what the OpenID initiative is aiming to do. OpenID is a new technology that makes it easy for you to log in to a variety of Web sites and services ...

Monday, July 23
 Role Management Implementation of Identity Entitlement
By inflectionpoint@burtongroup.com (Burton Group)
Burton Group analysts Kevin Kampman and Lori Rowland conduct a question and answer podcast about role management and enterprise applications control management for fine-grained access in enterprise resource planning. ...

In security, reputation is everything. Become a trusted resource ...
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
A reputation system can also be beneficial for identity and access management. Traditional user names and passwords are highly vulnerable to compromise, ...

Identity management: the expert view
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
by Ian Grant Identity management has become a key issue in information security. Governments and businesses are using identity management systems to provide ...

CIOs Entitlement Management Worries
By Andras Cser
Obviously, even more than traditional Access and Identity Management, EM will require deep coordination between Security Administration and various business units and a well defined process for managing identities. ...

Four new SDK's enable fingerprint authentication for Windows-based ...
By FIPS 201 Administrator
... authentication into Windows-based applications used in network authentication, secure fingerprint ID login, password replacement, file encryption, access control, POS, and commercial and government identity-management systems. ...

Schools get rules on biometrics
BBC News - UK
Schools are being given rules for how they use and store pupils' biometric information, such as fingerprints. There are schools which use biometric systems ...

 Say no to a mobile phone register
By Administrator
However, having looked at the situation in other administrations, considered the ease with which an unregistered foreign or stolen SIM card can be used and the difficulties that would be posed in verifying identity in the absence of a ...

Mobile Ubiquitous Computing (Is What I Want)
By Nils
First off, there is user-centric identity management and one article in particular, which deals with online communities and identity, called Community Support and Identity Management (PDF). Its abstract begins: ...

Warning On Social Network Info
Digital Trends
Credit reporting agency Equifax has warned that people are putting too much personal information on social networking sites, leaving themselves open to identity theft.

Trusted Network Technologies Unveils Identity 4.0 for Complete ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Running on TNT's family of network security appliances, the solution assigns unique and unalterable identity to all users, machines and critical information ...

Fujitsu and 123ID, Inc., Introduce Four New Biometric Developers ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
An executable version of a sample application demonstrates the enrollment, verification and identity management captured with the supplied MBF200 USB module ...

CPSI is Awarded the State Data Manager Contract for the State of ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
CPSI is also the leading Microsoft Active Directory deployment/identity management company in the K-12 industry, servicing more students with identity ...

NetPro Ships MissionControl 2.2
Earthtimes.org - USA
These and other enhancements make this release a must have for every serious Identity Management Architect." NetPro's MissionControl brings total visibility ...

Merkatum Deploys Largest and Most Advanced Facial Recognition ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Company designs, deploys, and fully-manages "end-to-end" identity management solutions for its clients, decreasing operational risks and acquisition ...

Piecing together IBM's security puzzle
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Under IBM's control are security offerings that range from its Tivoli group's identity management and compliance software packages to the gateway appliances ...

SezWho - A Step Toward Reputation Management
By Ken Yarmosh
Providing this functionality would be a valuable resource to help combat comment fraud, by creating a definitive location for all comments made by an individual in the blogosphere (see some previous thoughts on Anonymity, Identity, ...

Hitachi goes global with vein recognition biometric
Register - London,England,UK
Recognition by the way someone walks (their gait) or the rhythm they make when they type and others have each been tried as potential biometrics. ...

Rockefeller speaks at trade reception
Martinsburg Journal - Martinsburg,WV,USA
The trade mission, hosted by the Discover the REAL West Virginia Foundation, will bring together security and biometrics industry executives who will have ...

PHP OpenID 2.0 Library for PEAR
SDA India Magazine - Singapore
In a new post on his blog, Pádraic Brady, says that he has committed the initial OpenID PHP5 code in it's shiny new PEARified form to subversion. ...

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