June 2008 - Research on Security and Identity Management (by Marco Casassa Mont) -

The Future of Identity Management? It is all about Managing Risk …

As I have been posting for a while, I believe that Identity Management will evolve, during the next few years, from a pure “control point and compliance”-based approach towards an approach that will increasingly factor in the management of Risk. Decision...

Published 06-29-2008 1:57 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: risk management, identity management

Do CIOs care about Data Privacy?

Apparently they don't, at least based on a recent Ernst & Young report, whose outcomes have been summarised in this article written by Adrie van der Luijt : “IT fraud and data privacy fail to sound the alarm for CIOs and internal audit chiefs...

Published 06-27-2008 1:23 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: CIO, Data Privacy, survey

The “Information Card Foundation” (ICF) has been launched

The Information Card Foundation has been launched on Monday, as reported by this article published by news.com: “A group including Equifax, Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and PayPal, plus nine leaders in the technology community announced on Monday...

Published 06-24-2008 4:22 PM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Information Card Foundation, ICF

Liberty Alliance releases the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) and Identity Governance Framework (IGF) Specifications

Today, Liberty Alliance has publicly announced the release of the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) and Identity Governance Framework (IGF) Specifications: "Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trust-worthy internet...

Published 06-24-2008 12:58 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: IAF, privacy management, assurance management, IGF, Liberty Alliance

DoD and Funding Research into Information Sharing

As reported by this article , the US Defence Department (DoD) is going to fund research on information sharing: “The Defense Department has awarded $7.5 million to six universities for a five-year research program to help solve the problem of sharing...

Published 06-21-2008 3:51 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Privacy, research, security, Information Sharing, DoD

Future Security Architecture enabling “Multiple Personae”

I would like to thank David Lacey for highlighting, in a recent blog post of him (appeared in his Security Blog) , some R&D work done at HP Labs, Systems Security Lab (SSL),that has recently been presented at GC 2008. Here are David’s notes and comments...

Published 06-18-2008 5:04 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: identity management, security architecture, digital personae

Identity Thefts, The US FACT Act and Red Flag rules …

How may of you were aware of the fact that US Financial institutions face a mandatory deadline of November 1, 2008 to comply with 3 new US Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ( FACT Act) regulations referred to as the Red Flag rules ? As explained...

Published 06-17-2008 12:01 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Red Flag rules, identity thefts, FACT Act

Article: “50 Ways to Take Back Control of Your Personal Data”

Have a look at this very interesting article, called “ 50 Ways to Take Back Control of Your Personal Data ”, by InsideCRM providing a useful list of tips and “common sense” (but quite often forgotten …) ways to protect your personal data, maintaining...

Published 06-11-2008 11:56 PM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Privacy, risk management, identity management, privacy tips

WEIS 2008 and “Economics of Identity Management”

R&D papers and work presented at the Workshops on Economics of Information Security (WEIS) discuss and explore how economic theory and economic analysis can be successfully applied to information security, instead of focusing just on the traditional...

Published 06-11-2008 5:47 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: WEIS 2008, Economics of Identity Management

Data Breach Disclosure Laws Are Not so Effective in Reducing Identity Theft …

This is the message I got from a very interesting paper, titled “Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?” (Authors: Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, Alessandro Acquisti), that is going to be presented at the 7 th workshop on Economics of Information...

Published 06-07-2008 1:11 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Identity Theft, Data Breach Disclosure Laws, WEIS 2008

OECD Working Paper - “At a Crossroads: Personhood and Digital Identity in the Information Society”

OECD has recently released a working paper, called “At a Crossroads: Personhood and Digital Identity in the Information Society” . This paper discusses about the relationship between the properties of identity, identity management and the concept of personhood...

Published 06-03-2008 5:29 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Personhood, OECD, Information Society, whitepaper, Digital Identity

ACM Digital Identity Management (DIM) 2008 – Deadline extended to 6 June 2008

The submission deadline of the 4 th ACM DIM 2008 has been extended to 6 June 2008. This year theme is on “Services and Identity”. The complete Call-for-Paper can be found here . Please consider submitting a paper. --- NOTE: use this mirror blog if you...

Published 06-03-2008 5:28 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Conference, DIM 2008, ACM, Digital Identity Management

My HP blog is Back in the new HP Communities Hosting Site …

My HP Blog on “ Research on Identity Management ” is now back, in the in the new HP Communities Hosting Site. Enjoy … --- NOTE: use this mirror blog if you prefer posting on an external blog site ---

Published 06-03-2008 5:26 AM by marcocasassamont

Filed under: Research on Identity Management, Privacy, Identity, Blog

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