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  • Global warming of the identity ocean

    By Eric Norlin | February 8, 2007, 10:24am PST

    The big news out of the RSA conference is the announcement of a "marriage" of OpenID and CardSpace. For those that aren't up on the inner workings of user-centric identity: CardSpace...

  • OpenID: gone phishing

    By Phil Becker | February 1, 2007, 11:12am PST

    [Ed. The OpenID protocol is rapidly gaining momentum in the social networking arena. Exemplifying the momentum OpenID is gaining, Symantec recently announced that it would support OpenID in its...

  • SCC tells the mid-market identity story

    By Eric Norlin | January 29, 2007, 11:27am PST

    The RSA conference always serves as one of the two or three windows that the identity community uses to launch new products (the other two being Burton Group's Catalyst and our own Digital ID...

  • Brian cracks the identity and web 2.0 problem

    By Eric Norlin | January 22, 2007, 12:32pm PST

    I first met Brian Oberkirch at the Syndicate conference in San Francisco in December of 2005. At the time, I'm quite sure that he didn't know of my connection to Digital ID World, or...

  • Debating the state of user-centric identity

    By Eric Norlin | January 11, 2007, 12:34pm PST

    Every now and then a technical disagreement betrays the state of a marketplace. That phenomenon is currently happening in the user-centric identity trenches. The players are Kim Cameron...

  • Demand for post-admission NAC grows

    By Phil Becker | January 8, 2007, 10:01am PST

    [Note: Eric is having trouble posting today, and I have posted this article for him. So "I" refers to Eric in this article. - Phil] Prior to the holidays, I had begun to dig...

  • Identity predictions for 2007

    By Eric Norlin | December 19, 2006, 8:06am PST

    Having graded our identity predictions from last year, its time to venture forth into the uncharted waters of 2007. The following are our divinations on what is to come: 1. Identity-related...

  • Grading our identity predictions from 2006

    By Eric Norlin | December 13, 2006, 1:11pm PST

    At the beginning of 2006, we posted a list of predictions over on Digital ID World for the upcoming year in identity. In keeping with our historical tradition, I'd like to grade our past...

  • The case for OpenID

    By Phil Becker | December 4, 2006, 1:38pm PST

    [Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric...

  • Does authorization equal entitlements?

    By Eric Norlin | November 20, 2006, 11:49am PST

    Back in the early mists of identity time, "identity management" was referred to as "AAA" (triple A) — authentication, access control and authorization. Over time, AAA...

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