A Journal of Identity Managementhttp://idmjournal.com/Copyright 2007, the Virtual Quill You should select a password in such a way that it is difficult to guess. You can secure your password in an improved way by mixing different set of characters.http://enterpriseblog.net/a/how-to-check-the-security-of-password/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:19:15 PDT The question is: is Sears - despite its claims of driving innovation in online retailing, which seems a bit over the top - merely a late adopter looking to try something new or is this a sign of OpenID maturing to a point where it can finally reach that tipping point where it really starts taking off with a mainstream audience? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070200906.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:15:38 PDT It was a tremendous effort. It took 7,350 person-years of engineering, occupied over 3,500 Oracle developers, involved 220,000 tests run each night, and incorporated 5,420 customer enhancements and 1,987 individual development projects, according to Rizvi.http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3827826/Oracles+Mega+Fusion+Middleware+11g+Release.htm Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:19:04 PDT Through this new innovation, users in the Sears and Kmart communities can use the ID and password they already have to write product reviews and can share information on products, services and solutions. Future updates planned with the OpenID platform will allow users in the communities to share their posts and product reviews with friends easily via Facebook.http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-01-2009/0005053349&EDATE= Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:16:03 PDT Single sign-on, a new topic added to the survey in 2009, took first place as the top challenge among IT respondents, with 35 percent rating this area "problematic” or "out of control” in their organizations.http://newsticker.welt.de/?module=smarthouse&id=909452 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:39:54 PDT ...one thing we haven’t written enough about is your own role in the IAM organization, i.e. the roles, responsibilities, skillsets and prerequisites for effectively exploiting an IAM program within an enterprise. It’s really a shame, since knowing who can make the most effective use of IAM products and processes (and how) is more instrumental in validating IAM value for the enterprise than any product feature available or report you can produce.http://blogs.gartner.com/earl-perkins/2009/06/30/your-own-role-in-identity-access-management/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:28:30 PDT The IDDY Awards shine a spotlight on the individuals and organizations responsible for building and deploying identity-enabled applications for people, communities, businesses and governments.http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/call-for-nominations-for-the-2009-iddy-awards-now-open,878325.shtml Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:27:12 PDT Of course having an SPML capability in a SaaS is not going to be much help if the enterprise doesn’t have a provisioning system in place with SPML support. SPML support is not widely available in provisioning systems (although there are a few that have it out of the box).http://idlogger.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/saas-provisioning/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:25:42 PDT While we have Data.gov as one of the current administration’s steps towards furthering government transparency, we do not have an analogous Process.gov. Said another way – we get the sausage but don’t get to see how it is made. This isn’t transparent government but translucent government.http://www.tuesdaynight.org/2009/06/29/transparent-or-translucent.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:40:21 PDT I like my Gmail. If you don't, that's fine. Just leave me alone to enjoy it and I'll leave you alone to enjoy whichever mail service you choose.http://vquill.com/2009/06/targeting-targeted-advertising.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:12:14 PDT Without governance controls anyone can come in and rule the roost. There is no accountability, control or record. http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=136586134936&h=AyYZn&u=OdoAZ&ref=nf Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:10:42 PDT SafeID authentication begins when a user's name and email address are entered into the system during an intended purchase. From there, a series of five or six multiple choice questions are generated based on data from various public record sources. Depending on the integration, users will either take the test on the merchant's site or receive it via email. Upon completion, the user's score is made available to the merchant through their control panel, an API or by email which they can use to determine the customer's authenticity. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/06/prweb2588224.htm Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:16:37 PDT Covisint was one of only two companies listed in the Tier 1 category, which represented companies with more than $10 million in hosted identity revenues for 2008. The report also noted that "with the current economic downturn, many organizations are looking for ways to reduce the costs of their security operations and are looking at outsourcing to achieve this objective." http://www.globenewswire.com/news.html?d=167976 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:59:27 PDT Identity and access management (IAM) is arguably the broadest issue in IT security. There are few other single concepts that impact as widely on so many areas as that of managing identity in an enterprise business context. From enabling employees to access the internal resources they need to fulfil business aims, through companies outsourcing functionality and hardware to consumers seeking to bank, trade or buy goods remotely, all are dependent on secure, reliable identity and access management.http://www.scmagazineuk.com/The-problems-and-benefits-of-identity-and-access-management/article/139202/ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:58:04 PDT the term Personal Data Store is not an ideal term to describe a complex set of functions, but it is what it is until we get a better one (the analogy I’d use in more ways than one is the term ‘data warehouse’ - again a simplistic term that masks a lot of complex activity).http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?p=258 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:34:56 PDT