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

Privacy Management in Enterprises? It is a matter of Enforcement and Automation …

Privacy policy enforcement and automation are, in my view, two key aspects necessary to improve enterprise privacy management practices. Privacy auditing and compliance checking are reactive approaches, definitely important but of little help when violations...

Published 09-29-2007 9:01 PM by marcocasassamont

Research Report: Lack of Strong Identity and Access Management in UK Businesses …

A recent article by Miya Knights, called “Strong ID and Access Management eludes UK Business” provides an overview of the findings of a recent research report by Insight Consulting , on UK business attitudes towards identity and access management. Here...

Published 09-27-2007 6:38 PM by marcocasassamont

On Security Experts pitching “Culture of Data” …

I’ve found this article by Matt Hines, called “Security experts pitch culture of data” quite interesting: “The companies that are having the most success in advancing their data security efforts today are those that are finding a way to protect sensitive...

Published 09-26-2007 7:44 PM by marcocasassamont

Identity Usage Analytics: towards “IdentityBurner”?

As a blogger, I have found the services provided by feedburner very useful: in particular I like the service providing analytics about the usage of my blog, number and provenance (…) of visitors, accessed posts, etc. This helps to better understand from...

Published 09-25-2007 8:26 PM by marcocasassamont

Material Available on Identity Governance Framework (IGF)

As highlighted by Phil Hunt in a related post , material available on Identity Governance Framework (IGF) has been posted here . This includes overview material and previous documents such as: Overview of the Id Governance Framework Id Governance - Identity...

Published 09-25-2007 12:58 AM by marcocasassamont

ACM DIM 2007 – Workshop on Digital Identity Management

On November, 2 nd 2007, George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) is going to host ACM DIM 2007 – a Workshop on Digital Identity Management, in the wider context of CCS 2007 (14 th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security). This year, DIM focus...

Published 09-23-2007 6:15 PM by marcocasassamont

Webcast (11 Oct 2007) - Federated Identity Management, Web Services and Health Information Exchange …

You might be interested in attending this online webcast by Ignacio Alamillo of CATCert (topic: “Federated Identity Management, Web Services, and Health Information Exchange: Technology, Policy, Case Study and Best Practices”) on October, 11 2007: “The...

Published 09-22-2007 3:27 PM by marcocasassamont

PRIME Project News

News from the General PRIME meeting: “The PRIME project recently received more support and endorsement for its work to raise awareness and knowledge about Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for identity management to a wider audience that makes the decisions...

Published 09-20-2007 3:12 PM by marcocasassamont

EU PRIME Project – Look Forward to Hearing from You!

I am currently attending a General Meeting (one of the last – the project is meant to finish by the beginning of next year) of the EU PRIME Project (Privacy for Identity Management in Europe) . Current PRIME results and published documents (in terms of...

Published 09-18-2007 4:07 PM by marcocasassamont

Part II: To Be or Not To Be an Identity Provider?

In a recent post , James McGovern makes this comment about a post of mine, called “ To Be or Not To Be and Identity Provider? ”: “One should never research the notion of the business model of identity providers from scratch when there are many already...

Published 09-16-2007 8:14 PM by marcocasassamont

New Interdisciplinary Initiative at University of Toronto on Identity, Privacy and Security

I think this is a great initiative, opening new opportunities in teaching and researching in the areas of Identity, Privacy and Security – as highlighted in this article by CNW Group : “On September 17, 2007, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner...

Published 09-15-2007 8:43 PM by marcocasassamont

Google and the Call for Global Privacy Standards

You might be interested in this initiative by Google, which is meant to make a call for Global Privacy Standards. An article by Jeremy Kirk provides an overview: “Search giant Google will propose on Friday that governments and technology companies create...

Published 09-14-2007 11:58 PM by marcocasassamont

What are your Priorities in the Identity Management space?

As a researcher at HP Labs I have some ideas and opinions about what could be (long-term) priorities in the Identity Management space. Some of these opinions are driven by factual information (analysis of trends, etc.) others by intuitions. I expressed...

Published 09-14-2007 1:34 AM by marcocasassamont

To Be or Not To Be an Identity Provider?

Yesterday, in a post of mine called “ What is the Business Case for Identity Providers? ”, I was wondering what would be the incentive for an organization to be an “Identity Provider”(IdP) and, in particular one that just plays this role i.e. with no...

Published 09-12-2007 9:21 PM by marcocasassamont

What is the Business Case for Identity Providers?

I’ve recently been asked by a customer what would be the business case for Identity Providers, in the context of federated identity management … This question specifically referred to Identity Providers that just play this role i.e. have no additional...

Published 09-11-2007 8:18 PM by marcocasassamont

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

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Blogroll

Archives