Clayton Donley's Blog

Revisiting the Laws of Identity

By Clayton Donley on August 18, 2008 2:50 PM

Kim Cameron of Microsoft just reposted a shortened version of his laws of identity. I really didn't comment much when these were first being developed, though I recall being at a number of forums and conferences where discussion about them...

CNET: Oracle is grabbing a lead spot in identity management

By Clayton Donley on July 25, 2008 10:45 AM

If you had any doubts about Oracle as a player in the identity management space, this short article from Jon Oltsik on CNET summarizes the situation. Once again, common wisdom was completely wrong. While others struggle or abandon this space,...

Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

By Clayton Donley on July 21, 2008 12:03 PM

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the "meta-directory is dead" and "daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?" discussions... Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July...

Personal Fire Trucks and Overengineering Identity Solutions

By Clayton Donley on May 19, 2008 8:46 PM

So I noticed an odd headline in a news feed from the Chicago Tribune this morning: Neighbors seeing red over man's firetruck The gist is that a man purchased a fire truck on e-bay, built a garage near his suburban...

Google-Facebook: Identity Management in a Brave New Internet

By Clayton Donley on May 15, 2008 6:19 AM

So there's been a lot of press in the last few days about Facebook shutting off access from the recently announced Google Connect social platform. For those of you that pay attention to identity management, but haven't paid attention to...

Dave and Vikas Hop on the Right Bus

By Clayton Donley on May 11, 2008 10:58 PM

While I may not agree that doing SQL through your virtual directory to get access to combined views of transactions and identity information is the right way to go (and I think Dave really wasn't trying to say that anyway),...

LDAP as the COBOL of Identity?

By Clayton Donley on May 9, 2008 2:53 AM

Dave Kearns says LDAP is the COBOL of Identity. Jeff Bohren says it's actually the SNMP of Identity. So now that we're talking about LDAP's role in the universe... There's no pressing need to get rid of LDAP in existing...

Group Accounts and Lab Servers - How a Dating Service Took Out the Network

By Clayton Donley on April 22, 2008 5:19 PM

Having just mentioned "The Cuckoo's Egg," I thought I'd share my first IT security experience. I started my career at a large enterprise on a team managing networks of servers and workstations from vendors like Sun, HP, Motorola, and the...

AmTrust Bank Talks about Centralizing Database Authentication

By Clayton Donley on April 22, 2008 4:46 PM

AmTrust Bank packed the room at Oracle OpenWorld, but thankfully the web's a little larger and has more comfortable chairs. There will be a Webcast on May 1st at 1pm EDT (10am PDT) that reprises the original session and includes...

Service Oriented Security - Oracle @ RSA

By Clayton Donley on April 11, 2008 5:21 PM

For those of you that don't like reading press releases and wonder what all he buzz is about our recently announced Service Oriented Security offerings, Tony Baer from OnStrategies has a great roll-up here. Nishant Kaushik, one of our key...

LDAP to NIS Gateway?

By Clayton Donley on April 8, 2008 12:57 AM

For those of you that don't like reading press releases and wonder what all he buzz is about our recently announced Service Oriented Security offerings, Tony Baer from OnStrategies has a great roll-up here. Nishant Kaushik, one of our key...

Responses to the 2 Billion Entry OID Benchmark...

By Clayton Donley on April 4, 2008 2:19 PM

We got a lot of response to our benchmark on the Web and in our email bag. The responses were by the press, customers, and (most vocally) our competitors. Regardless of where the responses came in from, the one thing...