23 October 06 - 04:09Vintela Discovered!

John Udell wrote a nice piece about Vintela at Inforworld. It has good disclosure about the relationship between Microsoft and Quest as well as a pretty good overview of both the problem and Vintela's solution.

The payoff line? "... this kind of solution represents the worst kind of vendor lock-in." We agree with that point of view. We'd also mention that Vintela's not cheap either. Symas thinks Open Source solutions avoid both problems.link. (more)

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27 April 06 - 06:29Tangible Benefirst of IdM

A blog entry on just the "tangible benefits". Not worth quibbling. Nice to see someone thinking this way. Another IAM posting. (more)

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25 April 06 - 22:42Is there more to Identity than Security?

Dave Kearns would like to think so. It's an interesting question.

Is security about security? Is Sarbanes Oxley about security? Or is Identity as much an enabler, a way of opening things up as much as it is a gate? (more)

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17 April 06 - 13:04An Identity Management Rant

Apropos of nothing. I was reading the RSS feeds and ran into an article I simply won't bother linking to. It was a thinly veiled commercial for yet another Identity Management conference and the prose just got to me. Follow the "more" link for the rant, if you care. (more)

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15 March 06 - 14:24Reputation as the New Currency

Dave Kearns, that wacky revolutionary (NOT) over at NetworkWorld in his latest article found little but Dick Hardt's speech at the O'Reilly-run Emerging Technology Conference. Dick's the CEO of Sxip Technology and proponent of their Sxore product which "brings identity and reputation to blogging".

Oddly, for a guy who seemingly earns his living writing about the Identity Management products of the big advertisers software companies, he disses "Big Identity." What's up with that? (more)

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06 March 06 - 08:50Higgins ... second thoughts

I guess if you read enough, you finally start to get it. I followed a link in a comment to a Phil Becker article to another Higgins explanation article on Shekar Jha's IAM site.

If you care, at all, read it all. It doesn't take that long. My net net: Higgins is a celebration of the continuing proliferation of Identity smokestack (Directory) technologies. It is the anti-virtual-Directory abstraction layer. It is like a rich man hitching a ride with a wagon train taking off from Saint Louis after trains started running all the way across the continent. IMHO, somebody's going to get it right and both Higgins and Infocard stand to be embarrassed. (more)

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06 March 06 - 04:21Higgins ...

IBM, Novell and others sprang Higgins on the world at RSA 2006. John Fontana published an overview article today, over at NetworkWorld. For links to this and two more articles, see Aldo Castaneda's post.

The partners claim it will be interoperable with Microsoft's Identity Metasystem and that Higgins is not a competitor to Identity Card. It actually sounds oddly like the opposite approach to the problem. (more)

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05 March 06 - 11:35Dept. of Defense at RSA '06

Identity Woman posted her notes from the DoD talk at RSA '06. She comments that it is big business ($400B?) and that Identity and Access Management are a really big deal.

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