Talking Identity

Does 'User-Centric' also mean 'User-Burdened'?

By Nishant Kaushik on September 2, 2008 11:14 AM

Dave Kearns recently took on the topic of how user-centric and enterprise-centric identity could possibly co-exist in his articles for the Network World Identity Management Newsletter. In his first post, he discussed what the difference between the two is - ...

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Information Cards gets its own Foundation

By Nishant Kaushik on July 4, 2008 7:13 PM

One of the big announcements at Catalyst that I twittered about was the formation of the Information Card Foundation (take that, OpenID). The purpose of the non-profit foundation is to promote the use of information cards as a secure way...

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The Latest Wave of IdM Acquisitions

By Nishant Kaushik on March 13, 2008 7:24 PM

It's been a while since I blogged. Not that there aren't a wealth of topics to talk about, but because work here at Oracle has been keeping me so busy. The time right around a major product release (see my...

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Big News for OpenID

By Nishant Kaushik on February 8, 2008 12:06 PM

In further evidence that OpenID is about to go mainstream in a big way, the big players in the consumer identity space - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Verisign (along with IBM) - have joined the OpenID foundation, and are even...

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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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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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Facebook and the Social Graph

By Nishant Kaushik on October 18, 2007 9:49 AM

Last week I commented on Dan Nye's apparent lack of understanding about the need for a social graph for the web. This week, I read the following comment by Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, on how he...

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The LinkedIn Relationship Silo

By Nishant Kaushik on October 12, 2007 5:39 PM

Seems like all of a sudden the New York Times is a font of knowledge about identity management topics.In an interview that he gave to Saul Hansell for the BITS blog of the NYT, Dan Nye, the chief executive of...

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Revisiting the Identity Oracle concept

By Nishant Kaushik on October 10, 2007 5:37 PM

Yesterday I talked about the NYT article on personal identity management, and alluded to the discussion it generated on the nature of the Identity Oracle that Burton's Bob Blakely introduced a while ago. The Identity Oracle concept is at the...

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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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Digital ID World recap: Identity Services is Next

By Nishant Kaushik on October 1, 2007 11:28 PM

It took me a while to recover from last weeks Digital ID World conference. And it wasn't just because of the mad scramble I went through at the last minute to update all my slides for my talk. That was...

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The Need for Personae in Social Networking

By Nishant Kaushik on August 14, 2007 1:23 PM

Facebook is attracting a lot of attention from the identity community, with many of us signing up on the site. And the blog entries regarding the experience make for some interesting reading.Pamela Dingle blogged about the basic dilemma that most...

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Will RFID force Consumers towards Personal Identity Management?

By Nishant Kaushik on August 7, 2007 4:26 PM

In a recent blog post (E-Passports equals E-pportunity for Hackers?), I touched on the security and privacy issues arising from the use of RFID technology in the context on the new e-passports. Now Scientific Technology Options Assessment (STOA), an arm...

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Why Social Websites are really Faux-Social

By Nishant Kaushik on August 6, 2007 2:25 PM

Wired contributor Scott Gilbertson recently ranted about how social networks are adding to the ubiquitous walled gardens on the web (Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up). He talked about something that we are all...

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E-Passports equals E-pportunity for Hackers?

By Nishant Kaushik on August 1, 2007 12:47 PM

Electronic passports are not only insecure, they can be used as tools to commit fraud and mischief. That is the contention of an RFID expert that has been investigating the new digital passports and passport readers that make up the...

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How Facebook is changing the world of identity

By Nishant Kaushik on July 9, 2007 3:24 PM

Okay, so the days of questioning the impact of social networking websites on our digital lives is long gone. But the nature of the impact is still being understood, and this is producing some interesting findings. While the world of...

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Second Life screams for an Internet Identity Layer

By Nishant Kaushik on May 15, 2007 12:33 AM

Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world developed by Linden Labs. It uses advanced virtual world technology to create what is, in essence, a highly sophisticated social networking application. Users of the system, called "Residents", can explore, meet one another,...

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