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08 Apr 09

Does OpenID need to be hard? | FactoryCity

  • picking an identity provider should be like picking a bank or credit card provider: as a fourth-party service provider that advocates for your interest, since you’re their customer!
  • Instead of agreeing to terms of service that disclaim all responsibility to you, the customer, I hope that competition in the identity space will lead providers to actually take responsibility for their services — charging good money for doing so. If your account gets hacked — no problem! — your identity provider can put back the pieces and make things right again! You could even take out online identity insurance in case your identity is ever stolen — so you can always get back to your life and recover your data without the hassle and interruption when it happens today.
07 Apr 09

Global Identity in the iPhone browser

  • Typing user name/passwords on cell phones is extreemly tedious. Here we show how identification & authentication can be done in two clicks. No URL to type in, no changes to the iPhone, just using bog standard SSL technology tied into a distributed global network of trust, which is known as foaf+ssl.
02 Apr 09

Cable Show 2009: Time Warner Cable's Stern: 'TV Everywhere' Must Be Easy, Scalable - 2009-04-01 21:54:18 | Multichannel News

  • "We're looking to create a model that's friendly to cable, works for consumers... so if you're paying for it in your living room, you can also watch it online," Schwartz said.

    Stern emphasized that the authentication process for TV Everywhere must be very easy for customers and programmers. The user ID and password capabilities for TV Everywhere must be integrated so users can log in once, and access multiple programmers' services.

    The system must also "deliver authorizations quickly -- consumers don't want to have to wait for several seconds, let alone minutes, to watch the content so we need to be sure we can build scalable system... across millions of requests happening on a regular basis," Stern said.

  • Stern said Time Warner Cable has "embraced" the Liberty Alliance standards for creating and establishing users IDs. "We think we can create a scalable solution, without needing a common database across the MSOs," he said. "The plan is to do this bilaterally, using open standards." 
27 Mar 09

Will credentials « Chris Swan’s Weblog

  • The question at hand is what happens to our digital assets when we die, and how do we deal with the identity management issues intertwined with this?
17 Feb 09

NIPNY NEC CORPORATION: NEC's Identity Brokerage system offers operators and end-users a better experience

  • The Identity Brokerage solution supports single-sign-on across a range of domains and technologies. It is also able to handle distributed user profiles and policies for a controlled exposure of user attributes.
  • Anonymous service access guarantees the user's privacy and distributed policy-based profiles enable privacy-aware personalisation.
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09 Feb 09

UnboundID(TM) Launches New Software Development Toolkit for Next-Generation Directory Services - MarketWatch

  • UnboundID
    Corp., a developer of identity management software for Internet-driven,
    consumer-facing architectures, has released a free software development
    toolkit (SDK) that can be used to create directory-enabled applications
    to access both the existing and the new emerging class of directory
    services. The UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java requires no third-party
    components and is also the only public Java-based LDAP SDK currently
    being maintained and enhanced. As a result, programmers can rely on it
    for current and future development needs.
  • The UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java leverages the advantages of Java SE 5
    versions and later and provides significantly better performance and
    ease-of-use over other Java-based APIs. The SDK is made available under
    either a free "right-to-use" license or GPLv2 and gives users the right
    to embed and redistribute the technology. UnboundID also provides a
    commercial version with full technical support.

Digital Identity Forum: Is there a business in ID or not?

  • seminar on the business use of ID cards at the EEMA/Digital Identity Forum seminar sponsored by Consult Hyperion at the British Computer Society.
  • The event was kicked off by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Identity, Meg Hiller.
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Reference Architecture for Securing Web Services in a Heterogeneous Environment | HP DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

  • Web services have played key role in integrating heterogeneous applications, particularly in the cross domains. As part of identity management, Security Token Services (STS) are used for request and response tokens. However, we need multiple communication channels among STS when numbers of applications in different domains try to reach other web services. In this article we have proposed Master Security Token Service (MSTS) which will act as a broker for all security authorization without duplicating the effort at every domain.
  • Implementation of MSTS will reduce the complexity that each domain of STS has to make and overall simplifying the architecture of the enterprise applications. This will help us in efficiently managing the STS connection at reduced level of complexity. Going forward, our focus is on identity management with WS federation and SAML2.0. We are also planning to work on persistence of token services. 

/dev/random » Blog Archive » Back from FOSDEM

  • Then, Simo presented the FreeIPA project: “Identity Management into FOSS Project”. The project goal is to build a complete platform to identify and authorize users on a network. Based on several strong components (LDAP, Kerberos, Rsyslog, Apache), the project is at the first release. Interesting but features are too limited IMHO. The next version should be stronger.

Your Identity: "Costanza Style" - CSO Online - Security and Risk

  • Your identity is like George Costanza's wallet. Really. Think about it. Do you remember the classic Seinfeld episode? The one where George wouldn't give up his ever-expanding wallet filled with store credit cards, Irish money, a coupon for an Orlando Exxon gas station and several Sweet and Low packets. This, in spite of the obvious physical pain it caused and the security threat all of that imposed.
  • First, we'll start with defining the identity problem. Then, we'll look at parallels to how entire industries have already solved historically similar kinds of challenges. Next, I'll help you understand where this whole cottage-industry-in-waiting is headed from both a consumer and business perspective. And, finally, I'll paint a vision of what "The Next Identity Model" will look like so that a Costanza-like problem doesn't blow up in your face.

Your Identity: "Costanza Style" - CSO Online - Security and Risk

  • Federation is defined as the ability to make identity portable. With identities, federation enables the concept of an "identity broker': A third-party, trusted and secure source that is independent of both parties transacting business.
  • Think of it this way: your identity, often one of many username and password combinations today, is tied to each site you visit, each transaction you make. The Next Identity Model dictates that your identity will live outside of any site, any transaction, and become a thing of value, an actual asset, unto itself.

Your Identity: "Costanza Style" - CSO Online - Security and Risk

  • Issue: What credit did. What identity needs to do.

    -Trust and security Established a secure, trusted system that ensured people could purchase and business was paid. Establish a secure, trusted system that ensures that identities can access and systems allow that access securely, confidently.

    Independence Created an entity independent of the bias of the vendor. This enabled disputes to be resolved transparently and equitably and processes that equally served everyone. Create an entity independent of the bias of the system owner, i.e., Amazon, Yahoo, Walmart.com. This will enable disputes to be resolved transparently and equitably and processes that equally serve everyone.

    Ease of implementation Made it painless for vendors and consumers to use their service. Make it painless for service providers and consumers to use the identity brokerage service. This will be a standards-based implementation that serves all equally.

    Reduced liability Insulated stores from the liabilities of managing credit, and enabled them to concentrate on what they did best; the making and selling of goods, and eliminating the credit and administrative burden. Insulate the service provider from the vagaries of identity management, policy and liability. Enable business to concentrate on the business, not the technology.

    Global access Made it possible to use their cards regardless of geography, taking care of all translation, monetary exchange rates and other previous impediments to global commerce. Allow services to consume location-independent identities, taking care of all local, state and international laws related to identities.

06 Feb 09

National ID card database ‘will never be 100% secure’ put citizens at risk’ | News

  • British citizens will be “seriously harmed” by breaches of the Government's identity card scheme and other national databases, a report by technology experts warned today.
  • The report, whose authors were commissioned by firms including Microsoft, BT and Symantec, says no database can be “100 per cent secure or failsafe” and that accidents and security breaches will occur.
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Deloitte Says Financial Crisis May Lead to Security Crisis for Banks

  • Problems with liquidity and customer retention aren't the only challenges that banks will face in 2009. A report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, "Protecting What Matters: 6th Annual Global Security Survey," says that the pressures brought on by the financial crisis are actually increasing banks' vulnerabilities to data breaches.
  • The growing popularity of social networks and the proliferation of mobile media such as remote devices and Web 2.0 applications are causing an extra load on internal and external security. More than half of financial institutions surveyed now restrict the use of social networks and instant messaging (53 percent and 58 percent, respectively).
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Novell Layoffs May Exceed Original Estimates -- Enterprise Software -- InformationWeek

  • Offsetting layoffs, Novell is on the hunt for companies focusing on open source software, as well as proprietary software for data centers and identity management.
  • On a more optimistic note in another part of the world, Hovsepian this week told reporters gathered in Bangalore, India, that Novell is on the hunt to acquire companies focusing on open source software, as well as proprietary software for data centers and identity management.
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