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CA takes to the cloud for identity management
CA Technologies has gotten its feet wet with cloud-based security before, but now the company is moving further in with a package of cloud based...
5 cool tools for cloud management
Cloud management tools are as varied as cloud uses. For this test, we chose five tools that each attack cloud management from a different perspective.
SCIMing the provisioning landscape
I never thought I'd see the day when an XML standard was relegated to the trash heap as outdated. But that's exactly what appears to be happening to...
Still ranting after all these years
One thing hasn't changed much in the 10-plus years I've been writing this newsletter -- I still enjoy a good rant from time to time.
Watch out for the tinfoil hat brigade
The United States Department of Commerce recently announced the final release of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)....
SailPoint takes identity management to the cloud
SailPoint Tuesday put forward its strategy to extend the provisioning and access control capabilities of its IdentityIQ product to cloud-based...
Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking
Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company's product line toward mobile device and...
Please don't remember me
Most people want to be remembered, but there's a growing group of European politicians and bureaucrats that think you want to be forgotten.
Cloud identity Symplified
I mentioned in the last issue that Symplified had mentioned to me (OK, it was Marc Gendron, their always helpful PR consultant who mentioned it) that...
Peeking over the IAM horizon
Ireland's Research and Markets issued a report last month ("Business and Technology Issues in IAM") with this premise: The extended enterprise needs...
Multi-factor authentication for the rest of us
We often bemoan the seeming immortality of username/password authentication schemes. Why can't everyone implement strong authentication, multi-factor...
ZORKing Identity
When I look back to what was in the newsletter 10 years ago, as I do once a month, I frequently feel that I've been dropped into an adventure game...
Forrester report declares passwords insecure and notes sky is blue
In what should come as no surprise to most of you, a Forrester study from December concluded that "... most companies continue to rely on the...
Yahoo! steals a march on Facebook and Google
Big news on the Internet identity front last week when Yahoo! announced they have now become an OpenID "relying party" for IDs from Google and...
Real government identity cards
It was perhaps serendipitous that the same week the brouhaha over The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) broke I had...
Symplified a company to be reckoned with
Another look at Forrester's security recommendations
After writing somewhat disparagingly about Forrester’s recent paper "Twelve Recommendations For Your 2011 Security Strategy" ("Watch out for identity...
Directory services still evolving
Just as few people understand the telephone network but billions of people use it to further their business so it might be with the directory. As...
ID management predictions from the Great White North
More predictions this issue, but we head to the great white north (Calgary) for these from Hitachi-ID's CTO, Idan Shoham. Interestingly, Idan hedges...
Will small identity management firms thrive in 2011?
We're almost to the end of 2010 – how time does fly, especially as we get older. So over the next few weeks we'll gaze into the crystal ball to see...