August 2007 - Research on Security and Identity Management (by Marco Casassa Mont) -

New “Identity & Access Management Services” Report

I’ve just come across this site providing an overview of a new report (to be released in September 2007), titled “Identity & Access Management Services”, by Research&Market : “The "Identity & Access Management Services” report provides extensive...

Published 08-31-2007 8:27 PM by marcocasassamont

Top Challenges and Opportunities in the Identity Management Space

I’ve been invited to be part of a panel at the 4 th International Conference TrustBus 2007 (chair: Prof. Gunther Pernul), to discuss on “ Managing Digital Identities – Challenges and Opportunities” . In my opinion the top challenges that Identity Management...

Published 08-30-2007 11:57 AM by marcocasassamont

UK Public Spending on Identity Management set to Surge to £5.2 billion by 2011

A recent article by Kable , called “ Whitehall to boost identity spend by £5.2 billion ” reports that: “Spending on IdM is ready to leap by almost 50% next year from £825m to £1.23bn, propelled by major programmes such as the National Identity Card Scheme...

Published 08-29-2007 1:24 AM by marcocasassamont

OpenId and its Security, Privacy and Trust Issues: Next Steps to Address Them?

I agree with the comments made by Jeff (in a recent post called “ Compendium of OpenId Issues ”) about current OpenId limitations. I’ve also found the analysis made by Stefan Brand in his post about current OpenId issues very educational and comprehensive...

Published 08-24-2007 7:41 PM by marcocasassamont

Public Webcast - Identity Enables Mobility with Security: Identity Centric Architecture aligning SOA with Next Generation Networking …

I’d like to create awareness about a potentially interesting webcast, on August 29 (“ Identity Enables Mobility with Security: ICA aligning SOA with NGN ”), by Rakesh Radhakrishnan (Sun Microsystems): “Rakesh Radhakrishnan ( http://www.identity.futuretext...

Published 08-23-2007 7:14 PM by marcocasassamont

Digital Identity Survey: Identity Authentication …

The identity management community might be interested in taking this survey - “Digital Identity Survey: Identity Authentication” : “This survey is intended to evaluate individuals' views and opinions on digital identities, specifically in terms of methods...

Published 08-22-2007 12:31 AM by marcocasassamont

“Content-Aware Access Control” and Enterprise Web 2.0…

Web 2.0 is eventually going to have an impact on Enterprises, at least in terms of collaborative tools. Employees, familiar with Web 2.0 mash-up tools, social network tools, etc., (because they use them in their “private lives” …) will gradually find...

Published 08-21-2007 1:15 AM by marcocasassamont

An Identity Management Survey for the Financial Sector …

I came across this article by ITWeb (South Africa), called “ ID Management Survey call for entries ”, highlighting the fact that “The Tshwane University of Technology has constructed an identity management survey, and is inviting public participation...

Published 08-17-2007 3:52 PM by marcocasassamont

On Privacy Enforcement Technologies (PETs) …

I would recommend reading a recent post published in “Blog*on*nymity: blogging on the Identity Trial ”, titled “ PETs are Dead: Long live to PETs ”. The author provides an interesting analysis of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) from different perspectives...

Published 08-16-2007 12:57 AM by marcocasassamont

On Federated Policy Management in Enterprises: Episode II …

In June I published a post about “Federated Policy Management”: “Policies are used to drive access control decisions and enforce accesses to resources. How to “synchronise” policies that are used at different levels of abstraction – in complex telecom...

Published 08-14-2007 7:09 PM by marcocasassamont

On Company Policies and Impact on Identity Theft …

Ian Williams’ article, titled “ Poor company policy aids identity thefts ”, provides an overview of a recent report by Experian : “Many businesses are still in the dark ages when it comes to making sure customers are who they say they are, reveals a new...

Published 08-14-2007 1:10 AM by marcocasassamont

Digital Identities, Infrastructures and Government-related Initiatives…

Two interesting articles have been recently published on topics related to digital identities, infrastructures and government-related initiatives: 1) An article by Maggie Biggs, titled “National Id? What about a Global ID?” reports about FIXs , the Federation...

Published 08-11-2007 2:22 PM by marcocasassamont

Part II: Enterprise Use Case for OpenId and/or InfoCard …

Thanks to James McGovern for his input and his articulated reply to my comments . James, I see we have some different views in terms of B2B and outsourcing, at least concerning potential deployments of OpenID or InfoCard. I see your points and I found...

Published 08-10-2007 3:55 PM by marcocasassamont

Report - “Audit & Compliance Professionals: Survey on Identity Compliance”

A new report has been released by Ponemon Institute , called “Audit & Compliance Professionals: Survey on Identity Compliance”. Based on an overview document provided by Ponemon, this survey reveals that “despite the importance internal auditors and...

Published 08-09-2007 3:46 PM by marcocasassamont

ISTPA - Analysis of Privacy Principles: Making Privacy Operational

A report has been recently released by the International Security Trust & Privacy Alliance (ISTPA) that might be of interest to this community. It is called “ Analysis of Privacy Principles: Making Privacy Operational ” (and available online for downloads...

Published 08-08-2007 7:21 PM by marcocasassamont

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