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ISACA put out a paper on 29th Oct, 2009, titled " Cloud Computing: Business Benefits with Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives " While somewhat short, this paper is a must read for senior IT and business folks, as it shows that cloud computing still fundamentally requires work in...
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The time has come to update the topic (and focus) of this blog. In the last few years my R&D work and research at HP Labs has been involving a variety of aspects, including security, identity management and privacy. Most of my posts have actually been reflecting this - hence my decision to update...
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A couple months ago I was engaged in a podcast hosted by Dana Gardner with BriefingsDirect . Alongside Tim Van Ash and David Spinks, also from HP, we discussed cloud security challenges for successful enterprise adoption. The podcast is up, and you can listen here , or you can view the full transcript...
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I recently attended the EEMA e-Identity Conference , in London, 25-26 June 2009. There have been interesting presentation and good talks. I also gave a presentation on " The Future of Identity in the Cloud: Requirements, Risks and Opportunities ": "This presentation aims at: setting the...
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The cloud is a means by which global class, highly scalable and flexible services can be delivered and consumed over the internet through an as-needed, pay-per-use business model. This is one of HP's core definitions for cloud computing. For more approaches and definitions you can look at the Jericho...
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The cloud is a means by which global class, highly scalable and flexible services can be delivered and consumed over the internet through an as-needed, pay-per-use business model. This is one of HP’s core definitions for cloud computing. For more approaches and definitions you can look at the Jericho...
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Biometrics, forensics, security, identity and privacy experts, indeed this is your lucky month. The Program Chairs for the First IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, Identity and Security (BIdS) have extended the deadline for submission till June 13, allowing you an extra couple of weeks if the...
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I recently started using Twitter (my link: http://twitter.com/MCasassaMont ). Twitter it getting more and more popular within (and across) organisations in particular for geographically distributed teams, to share their activities and whereabouts. I am interested to better understand this tool, in particular...
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During the next two years (2009-2010), the Identity and Privacy Management areas are going to be subject to the consolidation and cost cutting trends that are already happening in security and, more in general, in IT. In my view investments in Identity Management (IdM) are going to be very pragmatic...
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Here is a recent, interesting article, called " Changing business landscape makes identity and access management key to IT security ": "In an age of significant layoffs and corporate restructuring, the burgeoning problem of identity and access management for IT operations and data centers...
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Thanks to the readers that sent comments to me (interestingly, by email ...), about my previous post on " Applying Modeling and Simulation techniques to Identity Management ". Feel also free to post your comments directly on the blog. An interesting question I received was about the overall...
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At HP Labs, within the "Identity Analytics" project, we are researching how to apply modeling and simulation techniques to the domain of Identity Management, to explore and predict: the consequences of potential decisions made by decision makers (e.g. in terms of strategic policies and adoption...
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This interesting article , called "Identity Theft Risks: Huge Amount of Sensitive Data Still on Redundant Computer Hard Disk" provides an overview of a research study to be published soon - warning about the risk of data left on devices to be decommissioned: "Ongoing research to be published...
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This article, called " ID Management In the World of Cloud Services " (and a related podcast) is quite interesting, as it is thought provoking. The advent of cloud services and services on demand is indeed likely to change the identity management landscape: most of current identity management...
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A new UK IT collaborative project has been officially announced: EnCoRe - Ensuring Consent and Revocation (some initial press releases: here and here ): "As more and more personal information flows from individuals to organisations when they interact online, people are becoming more and more concerned...