Posted in Security on July 30th, 2002 Comments Off
John Hagel thinks that that flexible (”loosely coupled”) business processes are one of the most promising applications of Web services but that they are still far cry for many. This reinforces my argument that it is not security/identity that is a major roadblock for adpotion of web services.
My guess is that the “adoption roadblock” […]
Posted in Security on July 28th, 2002 Comments Off
“Passport will be adding support for WS-Security in 2003 so that it can securely interoperate with other systems that support the WS-Security standard. By integrating these standards into its products and services, Microsoft will create a broad-based solution that will enable a host of federated security scenarios. In some of these scenarios, Passport becomes a […]
Posted in Security on July 27th, 2002 Comments Off
“The example used most-often is the sharing of identities between an airline and a rental-car web site. According to all I’ve read, the first time I use that federated link, I’ve got to log into the second site anyway, so what’s the advantage through that point in time? None. Furthermore, how important is it to […]