Archive for the 'Identity' Category

JA-SIG Conference: Future of Identity Management in HigherEd

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Jens’s talk is focusing on Identity Management where he’s focusing on life-cycle of identity data. Looks like the talk is going to focus on moving towards user-centered identity.”Access to the right resources, to the right users, at the right time” — focused on providing, not preventing access (e.g. from a security perspective).

Authentication vs. Authorization is [...]

JA-SIG Conference: Phil Windley Digital Identity Keynote

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Listening to Phil’s keynote. Will be trying to post video and audio at some point — in the meantime, there’s a good thread about reputation and privacy.

Update: Posted very rough audio recording of the keynote, also available as part of the podcast.

 
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ongoing · OpenID at Work

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

ongoing · OpenID at Work - This caused a GIGANTIC thread on the identity-gang list that got back to the question of implicit authorization off of an authentication source. I know when I was looking at Rutgers IdM infrastructure, assumptions about what having a credential meant was a serious barrier to then expanding issuing of [...]

ACEGI supports OpenID

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Blogroll: Acegi OpenID, Wicket Roadmap - O’Reilly ONJava Blog

On the ACEGI developer list this morning, Ray Krueger announces OpenID support in ACEGI thanks to the efforts of Robin Bramley. If you don’t know what OpenID is yet, learn more about it over at http://openid.net. Also, some analysis of OpenID from Tim Bray [...]

Map of Online Communitites

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Via Jesse - Map of online communities. I wonder if it’s missing an important Balkanized zones of all the institutional silos for Universities, company intranets, etc. Getting back into the whole identity track — how do you go about breaking down all the silos. OpenID seems like it could be part of it, building [...]

eTel: The open source phone crowd talks to itself

Friday, March 16th, 2007

eTel: The open source phone crowd talks to itself

An example: An otherwise excellent speaker on identity, Kaliya Hamlin, tried to suggest some potential win-win strategies in identity management that would help users while still enabling the operators to make money. She suggested that the operators offer identity services and tie them to a commerce engine, [...]

Tim Bray Not Sure About OpenID

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

ongoing · OpenID

The Real Problem · Of course, out there in the enterprise space where most of Sun’s customers live, they think about identity problems at an entirely different level. Single-sign-on seems like a little and not terribly interesting piece of the problem. They lose sleep at night over “Attribute Exchange”; once you have [...]

Strange love for passwords

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Strange love for passwords

Now, I’m not going to speculate too far into the future, to a time when Visa displaces the DMV or passport agency as issuer of authoritative international credentials for every kind of identification and authentication. However, there are no other entities that have Visa and MasterCard’s topical ubiquity and influence.  They’ve picked [...]

Rutgers IdM Assessment

Friday, December 1st, 2006

We released the Rutgers Identity Management Assessment today. It ended up being 65+ pages, but I think we did a pretty good job of incorporating both the inventory side, as well as some observations in our needs and capabilities.

One thing that was interesting in the end was the timing and personalities. 2 months was just [...]

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