NIdM or NAC?
I'm spending a little time boning-up on my "NAC" knowledge in prep for the panels that I'm moderating about NAC (network access control) and IdM (identity management) at next week's Digital ID World (Did I mention that Digital ID World...

The IDDY and Digital ID World
As if we didn't already have a *boatload* going on at this year's Digital ID World, the Liberty Alliance has announced that they're going to be anchoring their new annual award presentation at Digital ID World. The IDDY (pronounced, "eye-d"...

IOS at Digital ID World
As I think I've said *endlessly*, our mission at Digital ID World is to be a supportive mechanism for the identity community. As such, we're very glad to have the Internet Identity Workshop involved in this year's event. IIW and...

Conferences
The "E3 shuts down" news (that's the 60,000 person gaming show saying that they're "downsizing" becasue their 4 major sponsors pulled out) has me thinking more and more about conferences - tech conferences, specifically. A couple of thoughts: 1. I...

Acquisitions continue
Don't think that the acquisitions for the year ended with EMC and RSA. This morning Entrust is announcing the acquisition of Business Signatures (and their fraud detection technology) in an effort to boost their offerings around compliance with the FFIEC...

Focus?
Back on June 2nd, I wrote a ZDNet blog entry telling Novell to "focus, grasshopper" on their growing identity management business over their open source distraction. Now I see that their CEO and CFO have been ousted by the board....

A Digital ID World update
Phil and I have been busy blogging over on ZDNet, so I'm hoping everyone is reading over there. In the meantime, I wanted to give an update on the upcoming Digital ID World conference: (quoting) During the conference, over 40...

Verisign to Buy Geotrust
VerSign will buy Geotrust for $125 million according to this article. The takeover is subject to regulatory approvals. For some time Geotrust has been battling Verisign to become the largest issuer of SSL certificates....

2 Identity Startups to Watch
InfoWorld has issued a special report entitled, "15 Enterprise Tech Startups to Watch," and two of them are hardcore identity companies. Sxip Identity is a perennial thought leader in the identity space - with their CEO, Dick Hardt, rising to...

The Second Wave of Federation
Mike Beach of Boeing is the earliest of early adopters. I first heard him tell his "federation" story (the now legendary example of Southwest pilots being federated into Boeing maintenance manuals) at Burton's Catalyst show some years back. Mike is...