Identity mangement news

Online privacy: railing against the accepted

Scott Bradner — 2008-04-22T00:00:00Z

I frequently use this column to rail against threats to the privacy of Internet users, both from government and the private sector. I just found a survey published late last year by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that reports that people are coming to support, or at last not object too strongly to, some types of spying.

CSOs need to keep evolving, CA security exec says

2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

This is a transcript of a keynote address presented at the RSA Conference on Thursday by Dave Hansen, corporate senior vice president and general manager for CA's Security Management Business Unit. The address is titled: "Strategic Security: The Evolving Role of the Security Professional."

Quest fills single sign-on gap

John Fontana — 2008-04-08T00:00:00Z

Quest Software, which has been building a fortress of identity management tools, Tuesday said it will ship by the end of the month the last piece of its platform- independent enterprise single sign-on suite.

The correlation between identity monitoring and data loss prevention

2008-04-07T00:00:00Z

I've been looking into the correlation between identity monitoring and data loss prevention technologies. Can you clarify if these two go hand-in-hand and if so, the best ways to use them to get maximum efficiency?

IBM project seeks privacy controls for users

John Fontana — 2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

A three-year project to infuse privacy controls into identity technologies and emerging social networking communities is being undertaken by IBM Research with funding help from the European Union.

Fedora 9 hits beta

John Fontana — 2008-03-26T00:00:00Z

Open source Fedoraproject.org has released the beta of Fedora 9 signaling the code's readiness for testing by early adopters.

IBM buys single sign-on technology for Tivoli

John Fontana — 2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

IBM has acquired Encentuate and will add that company's single sign-on technology to its Tivoli line of identity- and access-management products.

Why won't Microsoft commit to identity management standards?

Dave Kearns — 2008-03-12T00:00:00Z

In January, I commented that Bill Gates had never warmed up to identity issues and judging by his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show, he never will. In the last newsletter, I talked about Microsoft's evident blind spot regarding metadirectories and virtual directories. Today I want to talk about Microsoft and identity management standards.

Identity vendor Ping adds to wares to support SaaS

John Fontana — 2008-03-11T00:00:00Z

Ping Identity Tuesday added to its tools for supporting single sign-on to online services by acquiring appliance-based technology from Sxip Identity for integrating hosted applications and corporate directories.

Microsoft, Sun open interoperability lab

John Fontana — 2008-03-10T00:00:00Z

Microsoft and Sun, which became a Windows OEM last year, opened an interoperability center Monday that will provide a test bed for customers who want to run Microsoft applications on Sun x64 servers.