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

A “Living List of Identity Management Forums”

I have found on the web this interesting “ Living List of Identity Management Forums ”. Despite being incomplete, it provides a pretty much good overview of (most of) public initiatives in the space of Identity Management. An opportunity for the Identity...

Published 11-30-2007 6:39 PM by marcocasassamont

US Federal Trade Commission: about 8 million US people estimated being victims of Identity Theft …

A recent report published by the US Federal Trade Commission, called “Federal Trade Commission – 2006 Identity Theft Survey Report” (the report is available online, here ) provides an analysis and estimate of Identity Thefts happened in US, in 2005. Based...

Published 11-28-2007 11:06 PM by marcocasassamont

On Policies and Policy Management: Present and Future …

I have recently given a presentation on the topic of Policies and Policy Management. My presentation is available online, here . This topic is extremely complex, considering the variety of aspects to be kept into account. This presentation reflects my...

Published 11-26-2007 8:40 PM by marcocasassamont

Conference Event: Ethics, Technology and Identity

I’d like to create awareness about the “ Ethics, Technologies and Identity ” conference (June 18-20, 2008 - The Hague, the Netherlands): “ Information technology plays an increasingly important role in society and in human lives. Identity Management Technologies...

Published 11-23-2007 8:01 PM by marcocasassamont

UK: Personal data of 25 million people have gone missing by Postal Service

A recent BBC article (called “ UK’s families put on fraud alert ”) provides more details about a recent incident happened in UK , where two CDs containing the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 that have gone missing: “The...

Published 11-21-2007 7:09 PM by marcocasassamont

What is your “Identity Footprint” on the Web?

Very few people actually know what their “Identity Footprint” is (e.g. various pieces of information and details related to them, given away on the web …), especially if they have been exposed for a while to the Internet, have accessed and interacted...

Published 11-19-2007 9:17 PM by marcocasassamont

Technologies and Solutions to Help Fighting Identity Thefts …

A recent article by Brad Stone, titled “ In ID Theft, some victims see opportunities ”, provides an interesting overview of some emerging technologies and solutions that can help people to be more aware of identity thefts and potentially fight them. Some...

Published 11-16-2007 7:10 PM by marcocasassamont

Event - Privacy Enhancing Technology: How to Create a Trusted Information Society …

A Conference/Forum is going to be held in London, UK, on 21 November, focusing on “ Privacy enhancing technologies: How to create a trusted information society ”: “Organised by three of the UK’s Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN), and supported by the...

Published 11-15-2007 1:20 AM by marcocasassamont

What’s the Future of Enterprise Identity Management? Risk Management …

I believe that Risk Management is going to have a deep impact on Enterprise Identity Management. On one hand “Traditional” Enterprise Identity Management solutions (e.g. provisioning solutions, AAA, storage solutions, etc.) are under consolidation. On...

Published 11-12-2007 9:30 PM by marcocasassamont

Identity Management @ HP Labs: Challenges and Opportunities

I have recently given a few public presentations about HPL R&D activities on Identity Management. I would like to share a presentation (.ppt), called “Identity Management @ HP Labs: Challenges and Opportunities” where I discuss: Challenges and Opportunities...

Published 11-09-2007 4:46 PM by marcocasassamont

Health Information Exchanges and Privacy Concerns

A recent article, by Diana Manos, called “Privacy Concerns Remain Barrier to Health Information Exchanges (HIE)” provides an overview on a report released by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Office of the National...

Published 11-08-2007 12:51 AM by marcocasassamont

ACM DIM 2007 Workshop: more on Identity Assurance

ACM Digital Identity Management (DIM) 2007 Workshop (2, November 2007) presentations are going to be available online, here . A few of them can already be downloaded. Presentations have been given in sessions covering the following topics: Usability and...

Published 11-06-2007 7:03 PM by marcocasassamont

ENISA Event – “Information Risk Management: Why Businesses need it?”

ENISA (in collaboration with INTECO) is organising an event on Information Risk Management , on 8-9 November, 2007 – Barcelona, Spain: “On this event, the experience drawn from the implementation of the Risk Management process in various European countries...

Published 11-05-2007 5:11 PM by marcocasassamont

HP’s Security Handbook

The HP’s Security Handbook is available online (2006 edition): “The HP Security handbook provides a view into all the different threads of security that HP works in. Much of the content is focused on the three pillars of our security strategy: Identity...

Published 11-04-2007 8:19 PM by marcocasassamont

The Basics of Identity Management?

An interesting article has been recently written by John Dunn, Techworld, called “ The Basics of Identity Management ”. This article actually focuses on “Federated Identity Management (FIM)”. It analyses aspects of FIM and provides the author’s view about...

Published 11-01-2007 8:23 PM by marcocasassamont

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

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