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

IT and Privacy Landscape: Areas to Watch in 2008

A recent article by Brian Tretick, titled “ IT and the Changing Privacy Landscape: Eight Areas to Watch in 2008 ”, provides an interesting analysis of the current state of privacy management and suggests eight areas to watch in 2008: Information is Power...

Published 12-29-2007 12:55 PM by marcocasassamont

Identity Management 2007: A Year in Review

2007 is drawing to a close. This has been an interesting but also frustrating year for Identity Management. Here are some thoughts and highlights of what happened: Consolidation of Identity Management in Enterprises : Identity Management has gone through...

Published 12-24-2007 1:26 PM by marcocasassamont

Who Am I?

Well, on the Web this also depends on the search engine … As a simple test, I searched (on 23 December 2007) for my surname, “casassa mont”, by using three popular search engines: Google: 5470 results Microsoft MSN: 15900 results Yahoo: 5070 results Quite...

Published 12-24-2007 12:20 AM by marcocasassamont

Coming Conferences on Identity and Privacy Management

Here are a few conferences related to the Identity and Privacy Management topics whose paper submission deadlines are in January and February 2008: SEC 2008 23rd International Information Security Conference, Co-located with IFIP World Computer Congress...

Published 12-21-2007 11:36 AM by marcocasassamont

Are Kids the New Targets of Identity Thefts?

A recent article, titled “Children Becoming Prime Identity Theft Targets” , reports the findings of a recent study by the Identity Theft Resource Center : “According to a recent study by the Identity Theft Resource Center, based in San Diego, the theft...

Published 12-20-2007 12:41 AM by marcocasassamont

Liberty Alliance’s Advanced Client 1.0 - Final Specifications

The Liberty Alliance’s “Advanced Client v1.0” Final Specification set has been released publicly and can be found here . --- NOTE: use this mirror blog to post anonymous (un-authenticated) comments ---

Published 12-16-2007 11:49 PM by marcocasassamont

UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): Call for Privacy Impact Assessment

A recent ICO’s Press Release (on December, 11 th ) reveals that: “At a surveillance conference in Manchester the ICO will say that the breach at HM Revenue and Customs was a watershed and will call for organisations to implement new safeguards to help...

Published 12-13-2007 4:23 PM by marcocasassamont

W3C PLING Interest Group: Wiki site is now up and running …

The Wiki site of the W3C Policy Languages Interest group (PLING) is now up and running. Feel free to subscribe and add your contributions. As anticipated in a previous post of mine , the current discussion topics are: 1) Use-cases involving the usage...

Published 12-11-2007 7:34 PM by marcocasassamont

Evolution of Identity Management

Jon Oltsik, in his blog post, “ Redux in the Identity Management Market ”, provides a concise and interesting account of the evolution of Identity Management, from initial start-ups, consolidation by large corporations and back again to start-ups, in...

Published 12-09-2007 10:23 PM by marcocasassamont

W3C Policy Language Interest Group (PLING): Discussion Topics …

The W3C Policy Language Interest Group is now ready to start discussions on policy related topics. Of course, if you are interested in this topic, feel free to join the public mailing list. The PLING's team contacts (Thomas and Rigo), Renato and I have...

Published 12-07-2007 1:17 PM by marcocasassamont

ENISA Position Paper – Reputation-based System: a Security Analysis

A new Position Paper has been released by ENISA , titled “ Reputation-based System: a Security Analysis ”: “This paper aims to provide a useful introduction to security issues affecting Reputation-based Systems by identifying a number of possible threats...

Published 12-05-2007 5:54 PM by marcocasassamont

UK Personal Data for Sale on the Internet …

A recent article by “ The Times ” (authors: Alexi Mostrous and Dominic Kennedy), called “ Websites Sell Secret Bank Data and PINs ”, reveals how journalists easily managed to get identity information about UK citizens, on the Internet, for free, offered...

Published 12-03-2007 5:05 PM by marcocasassamont

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

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