Digital ID World recap, part 1
In the wake of Digital ID World, Eric begins to ruminate on "what he learned."
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Responding to Dana's views on federated identity
Blog note: This is a guest column that comes to us from Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity corporation. I read with frustration a recent article posted by Dana Blankenhorn titled “Too late for federated identity
Identity substitutes, tokens and proxies
When authentication is required, it is often easier (and creates a better user experience) to authenticate something other than the identity itself. This is so common, in fact, that it can take some thought to realize when an authentication verifies an identity and when it verifies something else entirely...
Identity's big tent
With Digital ID World only three weeks away, Eric takes a moment to explain a bit of what's going on...
Should the online world reflect the "real" world?
Eric foolishly travels into the conversation blackhole of anonymity...
Anonymity and identity
In the very near wake of a foiled terrorist plot, I find myself waking up, planning to write about the topic of anonymity and identity.
John Cougar Mellencamp on NAC
Much is being made of a presentation at Black Hat by Ofir Arkin of Insightix. In that session, Arkin "raised questions" about the ability of Network Access Control technologies to do what they say they can do.
Knock, knock -- who's there?
Joris Evers has an article over on CNET about the "security risks" of Web 2.0. These days, whenever I read the words "security risks" I dig a little deeper to see if people actually mean "identity problem." As it turns out, most of the time they do.
The identity silo paradox
My recent post on Google's identity silo was part of a hailstorm (pun intended) of comments that occurred on the email list over at the Identity Gang. All of those fast-flying emails unveiled what I'm now calling the "identity silo paradox."
Pushing back on Google's identity silo
Ben Laurie, an employee of Google who is quite clear about the fact that he does not represent Google itself, responds to an earlier post of mine...