In a post entitled “Freedom of Choice ≠ Your Choice of Captor“, Craig Burton has responded to the part of my previous post where I expressed skepticism about the “profound innovation” in the work Microsoft is doing. I want to be clear: I am not questioning the vision that Kim Cameron has started to talk…
Read MoreKim Cameron has a vision for where identity management is going, and he has started to lay it out in a series of blog posts, starting with this post on ‘Identity Management as a Service‘ (where he unfortunately reopened the IDaaS vs IDMaaS acronym debate). I think most of us would agree with his statement…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MoreAnyone following me on Twitter is well aware of my stance on AddressBookGate. While the tech world’s initial outrage was being directed at Path, I felt that a more balanced conversation would also lay some culpability at the feet of Apple and other API platforms that were exposing data to applications like Path without any…
Read MoreRWW Enterprise just covered the latest update of PingFederate in an article titled It’s PingFederate 6.6 Versus “Identity as a Service”. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to comment on some details that made me cringe, so naturally this blog post was born. Please note that this is not about PingFederate in specific, a product…
Read MoreTime and time again, we hear from organizations that are struggling with the task of managing their IAM deployments. Budget overruns and unexpected expenses, the difficulty of finding and retaining IAM specialists, the inability of an overtaxed IT department to keep up with the constant adjustments and demands on the program – these are just…
Read MoreIt’s that time of year, when everyone does their best Carnac the Magnificent impression and rolls out their prognostications and top 10 lists. Here at Identropy, we’re not so sure about trying to predict the future, but we do know a thing or two about helping customers succeed in meeting the goals of their IAM…
Read MoreI was recently asked to comment on the top 5 ways to protect yourself (as an individual) when using the cloud. Obviously I brought a very identity-centric slant to it, but it was an interesting exercise as I tried to put down on paper (!) the steps I take to protect myself daily. I thought…
Read MoreTo all those claiming victory in the nymwars, hold on to your horses and read between the lines. Nothing that has been said indicates any kind of understanding from Google on the debate over use of pseudonyms. Phrases like “the issue is technology, resources and the atmosphere the company wanted to set” sounds suspiciously like…
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