A Journal of Identity Managementhttp://idmjournal.com/Copyright 2007, the Virtual Quill Former VP and Service Director for Burton Group Identity and Privacy Strategies, Gerry Gebel, has joined leading entitlement management experts, Axiomatics. Gebel brings more than 25 years of relevant experience to the company both from the Burton Group and from his time in the financial services industry. http://www.axiomatics.com/latest-news/149-axiomatics-european-entitlement-management-specialist-accelerates-its-us-expansion-by-hiring-top-iam-analyst-gerry-gebel.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:02:43 PDT The role of government, Jánszky says, is simple: Stop trying to build walls around the consumer and instead focus on passing laws that enable companies to use personal information, provided they do so in a responsible way and with the full content and oversight of the consumer.http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/cole/2010/03/09/the-business-of-business-is-trust/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:06:33 PDT Who will win the war? I don’t know but there’s something to be said about the fact that progress is being made faster with SAML than XACML. http://jacksonshaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/saml-vs-xacml-for-authorization-vhs.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:44:34 PDT Whether you want to place a bid at Bay, check your bank balance online or your credit rating at Schufa or Experian, or access your corporate SAP account: Instead of asking you to please enter your user name and password, chances are the system nowadays will demand some other method of authentication like a token or a smartcard, or it may offer to scan your finger or iris.http://www.kuppingercole.com/articles/sr_auth_stongflex_8310 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:15:03 PDT AD FS provides Web SSO for on-premise and internet browser based applications. FIM 2010 provides enterprise identity management in the form of provisioning, synchronization, and workflow. Both are products of the Microsoft ForeFront Security Suite.http://blog.identityjunkie.com/2010/03/07/talking-end-to-end-identity-management-for-the-cloud-authnauthz/ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:46:21 PDT Something that is holding up ecommerce and development of serious commercial actiivty online is the matter of identity. There are many proposed solutions but the fact remains that they are disparate and all fail in the sense that you cannot have one identity online and choose which parts to share with those sites you visit.http://ibanks.com/2010/03/04/holy-grail-or-another-false-start-for-identity/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:53:43 PDT Forefront Identity Manager 2010, the successor to Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, can be used to establish policy-based access controls tied to the user’s role in the organization. It features more end user self-service and automated IT administration features than the earlier product, according to Microsoft. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030310-rsa-microsoft-identity-management.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:59:49 PDT The research is the work of Valeria Bertacco, Todd Austin and Andrea Pellegrini. According to their paper, entitled 'Fault-Based Attack of RSA Authentication' (PDF), the trio demonstrated a way to beat the popular encryption method, which is used in media players, laptop computers, smartphones and other devices. It is also used by retailers to secure customer information online.http://securitywatch.eweek.com/vulnerability_research/researchers_claim_rsa_authentication_crack.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:13:10 PDT CA Identity Manager can now be used to automate processes, such as associating a user to a role to gain access to Sales Cloud 2, the sales forecasting application from Salesforce.comhttp://www.itworldcanada.com/news/ca-to-add-id-management-to-salesforce-com-tools/140122 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:11:52 PDT Thus, you shouldn’t ignore Identity Provisioning, Virtual Directory Services (still one of the most valuable technologies in IAM and one of the best hidden secrets at the same time), or Enterprise SSO.http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/kuppinger/2010/03/03/back-to-the-basics-you-still-need-core-iam/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:42:47 PDT The idOnDemand service eliminates the pain and complexity of deploying and managing digital identities on-site and ensures that organizations of all sizes can take advantage of smart identification. idOnDemand leverages the ActivIdentity ActivID Card Management System as the back-bone of its cloud-based service, allowing organizations to issue, distribute, and manage digital certificates on smart ID cards.http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ActivIdentity-Empowers-iw-2022650788.html?x=0&.v=1 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:39:47 PDT kantara_logo.gifToday's all-day workshop offered by the Kantara Initiative focused almost exclusively on identity services and included viewpoints from several perspectives: enterprises (CA, Ping Identity, Aetna, Oracle, HP), service providers (NTT), consumer applications (Paypal, Google), and government agencies (NIH).http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/03/rsa-identity-cloud-kantara.php?utm_source=ReadWriteCloud&utm_medium=rwchomepage&utm_campaign=ReadWriteCloud_posts&utm_content=Reporting%20From%20RSA%202010:%20Identity,%20Health%20Care,%20and%20a%20Higher%20Realm%20of%20Credentials Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:02:03 PDT The certification criteria, seal and roadmap will be defined by CSA members, which represent a cross-section of stakeholders, end-user organizations, cloud service, SaaS and technology providers and include Novell, of course, Microsoft, Dell, Rackspace, Qualys, HP, Intel, Cisco, McAfee, ISACA, DMTF and Symantec, as well as individual representatives from Global 2000 organizations and the world's governments.http://apache.sys-con.com/node/1304657 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:49:45 PDT But today, just for once, I’m going to pick up an actual Microsoft press release and lay it on you. The reason? Microsoft has just done something very special, and the fact that the announcement was a key part of the RSA Conference Keynote is itself importanthttp://www.identityblog.com/?p=1094 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:36:15 PDT Last Thursday over 60 OpenID advocates met at Sears World Headquarters in Chicago for a full day of discussions on progress to date and future plans for OpenID deployment and utilization. There is a summary of the event on the OpenID Foundation wiki. See Twitter coverage of the event with the hash tag #openiduxhttp://blog.janrain.com/2010/02/sears-openid-ux-summit-retrospective.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:20:36 PDT