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The Conundrum of 2FA meets the Enigma that is PAM

  • Posted on:April 24, 2013
  • Posted in:The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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“It’s a mystery. Broken into a jigsaw puzzle. Wrapped in a conundrum. Hidden in a Chinese box. A riddle.” – The Riddler, The Long Halloween Yesterday’s hack of the AP’s Twitter account was big. Not only did the impact it had on the stock market prove Ranjeet’s thesis that Twitter is now a SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley)…

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Tags: Multi-Factor AuthenticationPasswords Must DiePrivileged Account ManagementShared AccountsTwitter

The IDaaS Powered World

  • Posted on:November 20, 2012
  • Posted in:Identity Services, The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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Last week I was in Colorado for the Defrag and Blur conferences. Defrag bills itself as ‘the premiere thought leader discussions about “what’s coming next” in technology’. And it certainly lived up to the billing, as I attended some great talks from folks like Paul Kedrosky, Jeff Ma, Ray Wang, Jay Simons and Jeff Lawson….

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Tags: Bring Your Own IdentityBYOICloud Identity ModelDefragDefrag2012IDaaSIdentity as a ServiceIdentity Services

The Epic Hacking of Mat Honan and Our Identity Challenge

  • Posted on:August 7, 2012
  • Posted in:Personal Identity Management, The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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Wired has the kind of article that will make all of us leading highly digitized lives (is that the right term?) wake up in a cold sweat. While the title – How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking – may strike many as sensationalist, the article does a good job of…

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Tags: Amazon SecurityApple SecurityGMail SecurityIdentity AssuranceIdentity ProvidersIdentity VerificationMat HonanNSTICPassword ManagementPassword Recovery TechniquesPasswords Must Die

So is Windows Azure AD a Provisioning Engine?

  • Posted on:August 2, 2012
  • Posted in:The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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While the identity community is consumed by the “SAML is a Zombie” and “OAuth is Evil” debates, I wanted to go back to a slightly older topic of discussion. Almost 2 months ago (my, how time flies when protocols are being given the business), I wrote about Windows Azure AD and the necessity to understand…

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Tags: CIS2012Cloud Identity ModelCloud Identity SummitDirectory Graph APIIDaaSJIT ProvisioningJust-In-Time ProvisioningSCIMWAADWindows Azure Active Directory

What the Cloud can do for Identity

  • Posted on:July 27, 2012
  • Posted in:The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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There’s no two ways about it. This year’s Cloud Identity Summit was another incredible edition that brought together great content and really interesting discussions about the state and future of identity. It is definitely going to be fun watching the amazing community we have in identity use this conference as a platform to make a…

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Tags: Cloud ComputingCloud IdentityCloud Identity ModelCloud Identity SummitIDaaSIdentity as a ServiceSocial Identities

Exploring The Edge Of Identity At The Cloud Identity Summit

  • Posted on:July 16, 2012
  • Posted in:The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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It’s Cloud Identity Summit week, and it should be a blast. For one, it’s in beautiful Vail, CO – a place I’ve never been to. Secondly, you never know what will happen when you put all the identity oddballs in the same place, with no place to escape to. But mostly, there should be lots…

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Tags: CIS2012Cloud Identity SummitIdentropy

Identity Management Doesn’t Make The Cloud Complex. It Makes it Real.

  • Posted on:May 30, 2012
  • Posted in:The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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What does it take to wake me from my blogging slumber? I guess it takes someone bashing Identity Management as a security technology that is deployed just for the sake of it. In an article today on InfoWorld entitled ‘Killing the cloud with complexity‘, David Linthicum classifies Identity Management as a “trendy”, “newer” and “more…

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Tags: Cloud Identity ModelCloud Identity SummitCloud SecurityDavid LinthicumGartner Catalyst ConferenceIdentity is the new PerimeterIdentity Management

The Identity Glue for the Cloud Gets A Heavyweight

  • Posted on:May 17, 2011
  • Posted in:The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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Something big happened in identity today, but it may not have registered on the seismic scale because of the company involved. VMWare announced the launch of the Horizon App Manager, an identity and access control platform for enterprises that want to securely adopt SaaS applications. An outgrowth of the TriCipher purchase last year, Horizon App…

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Tags: Cloud ComputingCloud SecurityEnterprise IdentityGlueconHorizon App ManagerIdentity HubIdentity ServicesSaaSSSOTriCipherVMWare

Building a Strong Foundation for Your Cloud with Identity Management

  • Posted on:September 26, 2010
  • Posted in:Identity Services, Oracle Identity Management, The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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That was the topic of my talk at OpenWorld this year. Fitting, I think, considering the emphasis that was put on Cloud Computing at OOW this year, starting with Larry’s opening keynote on Sunday. In my session, I talked about how, thanks in large part to the emergence of cloud computing, enterprises are moving towards…

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Tags: Cloud ComputingCloud Identity ModelCloud SecurityOOW10OpenWorldOracle Identity ManagementOracle OpenWorld

Fed-Prov and the Cloud: JIT Provisioning.Next

  • Posted on:June 7, 2010
  • Posted in:Insight IdM, The Cloud Identity Series
  • Posted by:Nishant Kaushik
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In my last post, I discussed the basic architectural model of Just-In-Time Provisioning, and some challenges it has in addressing enterprise needs related to cloud computing. In this post, I will propose some possible enhancements to the basic architecture that could address those challenges. Each of these solutions could be viable, though each seems to…

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Tags: Attribute ExchangeCloud ComputingFederated ProvisioningGlueconGlueCon-FPSeriesIdentity Governance FrameworkIGFJIT ProvisioningOAuthOpenIDSAML
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