From time to time in this newsletter we take a look back 10 years to see what we were talking about “back in the day.” The newsletter was called “Focus on Directory Services” back then. But going back ...

How to build a solid business case for deployment. Smedinghoff is a partner at Wildman Harrold, where his practice focuses on the new legal issues relating to the developing field of information law ...

It’s one of those concepts that, to me at least, is obscured by it’s own name: federated identity. In a nutshell, the goal of said technology is to offer users the ability to authenticate themselves ...

Currently, the identity and access management (IAM) landscape at HBS is complicated with manual processes, custom solutions, and isolated systems. Users are burdened with maintaining multiple sets of ...

It’s time to abandon the dream of an open, federated, multiplayer identity-provider ecosystem and move on, one of the pioneers of the concept told AFCEA’s 2021 Federal Identity Forum and Expo Tuesday.

Security vendors Entrust and Trustgenix yesterday announced an alliance designed to strengthen the security of federated identity management relationships. The companies made the announcement at the ...

Until now, IBM has shunned membership in the group founded by Sun Microsystems Inc., working instead with Microsoft Corp., BEA Systems Inc., and others on specifications for a broader Web-services ...

In collaboration with the U.S. federal government, AFCEA International has launched the Federated Identity Campaign. As the initial step, association members can now use a number of government-issued ...

The growth of partnerships into e-business networks is one of the most significant trends in the evolution of Internet commerce. Some of the most successful global businesses have achieved a high ...

Federated identity systems centralize all elements associated with a user&'s network credentials and then share those credentials across platforms or even organizations. In some cases, a federated ...