Entries from Talking Identity tagged with 'User-Centric Identity'
The changing face of Password Management
A college student was arraigned on Wednesday for allegedly breaking into Gov. Sarah Palin's private e-mail account last month. Political leanings aside, I read the news article with great interest for the inherent security implications. Reading it, this line jumped...
Does 'User-Centric' also mean 'User-Burdened'?
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 - ...
Information Cards gets its own Foundation
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...
The Latest Wave of IdM Acquisitions
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...
Higgins 1.0 Released
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the 1.0 release of Higgins, the first real software framework that enables developers to integrate user-centric identity technologies and protocols into their applications. It's multi-protocol and platform-agnostic architecture is key in making the process of...
Big News for OpenID
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...
User-Centricity is a Philosophy, not a Solution
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...
User-Centricity is NOT about User Self-Service
My previous post on User-Centricity in the Enterprise generated some interesting responses in the blogosphere (see here). One thing that surprised me was the discourse equating (or focusing) user-centricity with user self-service. The message seemed to be that user-centricity is...
User-Centricity in the Enterprise
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...
We need a strong Internet Identity Framework, NOW!
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...
The LinkedIn Relationship Silo
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...
Revisiting the Identity Oracle concept
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...
The Personal Identity Management Discussion Goes Mainstream
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),...
Digital ID World recap: Identity Services is Next
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...
Digital ID World kicks off with the cry: Free Identity!
You know you are at a good conference any time your keynote address throws up a picture of Neo (from The Matrix) on the screen.That's exactly what Doc Searls did during a typically humorous and thought-provoking keynote roughly titled "The...
The Need for Personae in Social Networking
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...
Will RFID force Consumers towards Personal Identity Management?
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...
Why Social Websites are really Faux-Social
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...
Catalyst Conf. Notes: Burton takes "Control"
After a day and a half, I can safely say that Catalyst is living up to its reputation of being on the cutting edge of identity trends and issues. After a typically boisterous start to the conference on Wednesday, where...
Are you a Catalyst?
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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