Talking Identity

International Data Privacy Day: Real Problems, Real Solutions

By Nishant Kaushik on January 28, 2009 2:59 PM

Wednesday, January 28 is International Data Privacy Day, honoring the anniversary of the Council of Europe Convention on Data Protection (No. 108), the most important international law for privacy. The purpose of this convention is to secure in the...

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The Real World: Catalyst Conference Edition

By Nishant Kaushik on July 2, 2008 8:05 PM

Another Catalyst conference has come and gone, leaving us with a lot of material to chew on and ponder. Burton always forces us to think about what we are doing, especially those of us that have products to deliver....

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Talking about the Identity Bus/Hub/Provider

By Nishant Kaushik on May 19, 2008 4:20 PM

There has been a lot of discussion recently on the topic of an Identity Bus (see the recent newsletters by Dave Kearns from May 5, May 7, May 12 and May 14, and some blog posts by Kim Cameron and...

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Virtual Directories + Provisioning = No more Metadirectory

By Nishant Kaushik on March 21, 2008 12:21 PM

There has been an interesting discussion going on regarding the fate of metadirectory technology. Dave Kearns talked about it in his newsletter recently (see: Is the metadirectory dead). In it, he quoted Jackson Shaw, who brought it up as context...

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Looking Forward to 2008

By Nishant Kaushik on January 29, 2008 1:40 PM

This is the time of year when everyone rolls out their start-of-the-year predictions. You can see a couple of those here and here. I especially loved Anshu Sharma's take on this popular beginning-of-the-year routine.Predictions are risky business, especially in the...

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User-Centricity is a Philosophy, not a Solution

By Nishant Kaushik on December 26, 2007 1:22 PM

It has been a while since I posted, but not because there isn't anything to talk about. In fact, there may be too much to talk about, especially since all the discussion about user-centricity in the enterprise generated so much...

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User-Centricity in the Enterprise

By Nishant Kaushik on December 4, 2007 5:19 PM

Recently, a few things have reminded me that we still don't have a clear understanding of how the concept of user-centric identity will fit into the enterprise environments we are so familiar with. But the question keeps coming up, in...

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We need a strong Internet Identity Framework, NOW!

By Nishant Kaushik on November 28, 2007 4:43 PM

This is a little bit of a rant, but read this article in the New York Times and you may understand why. It is difficult to get past the feelings of disbelief, outrage and anger that the tragic story of...

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The Personal Identity Management Discussion Goes Mainstream

By Nishant Kaushik on October 9, 2007 11:45 PM

Yesterday I read an article in the New York Times entitled 'Securing Very Important Data: Your Own'. One of the rare mainstream discussions about personal identity management (as opposed to the common identity theft related articles that you see constantly),...

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Are you a Catalyst?

By Nishant Kaushik on June 18, 2007 3:33 PM

That catchy slogan can only mean one thing - it's time for the annual Catalyst Conference (US edition), hosted by the Burton Group. Running from June 25-29 in San Francisco, the event will once again aim to stir things up...

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Moving Towards the ISF: Announcing the Identity Governance Framework

By Nishant Kaushik on December 2, 2006 5:26 PM

This week, Oracle took a long awaited first step towards the realization of the Identity Services Framework that I have been talking about. At the Gartner IAM Summit this week, Oracle announced an open initiative, the Identity Governance Framework (IGF),...

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