Virtual Identity Dialogue

Announcing Oracle Identity Management 11.1.1.2

By mark.wilcox on November 17, 2009 8:48 AM

As you may have seen elsewhere Oracle released an update to the Fusion Middleware 11g bits this includes the current 11g IDM products (Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Identity Federation). The release is named 11.1.1.2 and can...

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Updated OVD Guide For Managing Oracle Database Users (Enterprise User Security) Posted

By mark.wilcox on September 30, 2009 7:10 AM

Hard to believe it's the end of September. Anyway we (and by we, I mean Olaf Stullich my fellow PM here in directory services) updated our white paper on Centralized Oracle Database User Management aka Enterprise User Security. The most...

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Simplifying LDAP Access For .NET Developers

By mark.wilcox on September 2, 2009 11:15 AM

I don't do much .NET development these days but I saw this posted on Planet Identity yesterday so I thought I would pass it along for anyone who reads this but maybe doesn't subscribe to the Planet Identity feed. Zetetic...

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Check out IdentityForge updated site

By mark.wilcox on August 7, 2009 3:56 AM

IdentityForge which is our preferred partner for providing LDAP-enabled access to mainframe identity data has updated their website. And if you have identity information locked in your mainframe that you are trying to integrate with your identity management infrastructure -...

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Visa Wins Identity Management Innovation Award for Their OVD Deployment

By mark.wilcox on July 30, 2009 8:28 AM

Today we announced that Cisco and Visa were the recipients of our first annual Identity Management Innovation award. Visa won because of their innovative use of OVD. From the award page: “Visa deployed Oracle Virtual Directory Services to provide applications...

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Strong Web Passwords Are Not As Helpful As You Think

By mark.wilcox on July 13, 2009 6:37 AM

Saw the abstract of a new security paper via Scheier. In short - strong passwords do not really do a better job of security accounts as you might think. This is because they do not do anything to prevent phishing...

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is Now Live

By mark.wilcox on July 1, 2009 8:24 AM

We launched 11g today. It's not just announcements - the software is ready to download. There is more information on the updated Identity Management site. It's also a major milestone for Oracle Directory Services reflecting over 3 years of work.  ...

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Increasing Value of Siebel with Oracle Virtual Directory CRM Identity Publisher

By mark.wilcox on June 1, 2009 11:07 AM

Last week we launched a site to explain a new feature of OVD - the CRM Identity Publisher. This feature makes it easier to use identity information managed by Siebel and Customer Hubs in your applications....

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BT and Oracle: Managed Fraud Reduction Service

By mark.wilcox on May 5, 2009 12:53 PM

Fellow PM (on the OAM Suite team) Mark Karlstrand has just posted a link of stories about our new service with British Telecom (BT). I think this is important - not only because it involves Oracle products and a partner....

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Fiction as Analogy of Identity vs Persona

By mark.wilcox on May 5, 2009 5:36 AM

I'm on a bit of a Star Trek kick here on the blog. Though to be clear - I'm pan-sci-fi fan. Meaning I dig Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica (both the original and updated) pretty much equally.  ...

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Star Trekkers Explain Virtual Directory Technology

By mark.wilcox on May 4, 2009 8:16 AM

I have been playing around with GoAnimate which is a website that lets you build Flash animation clips. Besides making it very simple to create (if you can build a PowerPoint, you can build GoAnimate) - they have licensed characters...

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Virtual Developer Labs

By mark.wilcox on April 28, 2009 5:59 AM

OTN and Amazon are teeming up together to host a free "Virtual Developer Day". If you are interested in learning how to build cool, Web 2.0 style applications (aka Ajax) using Oracle technologies - you should look into this. But...

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A Simple Follow-Up on VRM and CRM

By mark.wilcox on April 28, 2009 5:43 AM

I've discovered that my comment filter for my email - um actually works. And it has been sticking it into my internal folder that I only occasionally peek at. So - thanks for the comments -sorry took long to reply....

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More External Writing on OVD

By mark.wilcox on April 28, 2009 5:28 AM

Combing through email that I had put away to read until after RSA - I discovered Deb Volk from Identigral has written a couple of nice posts on virtual directories and OVD. Thanks Deb!...

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New External Virtual Directory Article

By mark.wilcox on April 27, 2009 2:18 PM

I was recently published in SC Magazine: "Virtual identity services enable merger business process integration for M&A" It's basically another intro-article on virtual directories....

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Building Bullet-Proof Security for SharePoint Portals

By mark.wilcox on April 13, 2009 11:23 AM

There is a new webcast on how to provide security for SharePoint using Oracle Identity Management products. And we have additionally published a paper on how to secure SharePoint with Oracle Virtual Directory....

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VRM or CRM - You Decide

By mark.wilcox on April 9, 2009 2:40 PM

Eve Maler (btw who pronounces her last name differently than Sophia Maler who is our PM for federation. I suspect but have not yet confirmed that any female involved with SAML must have the last name of "Maler" but I...

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Davy Crockett Would Have Carried An IPhone Not What You Gave Him

By mark.wilcox on March 30, 2009 6:49 AM

I am a huge fan of Davy Crockett.  He is the most famous of the volunteers who fought and died at The Alamo as part of Texas Independence. The fighters for Texas Independence were for the most part volunteers who...

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You Don't Need Universal Directory To Solve Federated Provisioning Problems - You Just Need Identity Virtualization

By mark.wilcox on March 4, 2009 2:18 PM

Dave Kearns most recent article mentions a "universal directory" to help solve the federated identity provisioning problem. And as Jackson Shaw points out - we tried this with X.500 and it didn't work out. But I would argue that Dave...

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It's Tuesday - So Must Write That McGovern Response

By mark.wilcox on February 17, 2009 7:20 PM

James McGovern has asked me to respond a couple of times to his follow-up to an earlier thread. Let's look at one of mark's quotes:" Let's take a step back here. Sun did not open-source LDAP :). They have an...

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