Posted in Architecture, Security on February 12th, 2003 Comments Off
“Which of our enterprise directories are we talking about?”
I overheard this sentence today in discussions with a client and it stuck with me because it summed up so well some absurdities of “enterprise identity management” (as well as many large scale technology projects).
Currently, user identities are usually stored and managed in identity silos and having the […]
Posted in Architecture, Security on February 11th, 2003 Comments Off
I managed to finish the NECC paper on government identity management. Since I tend to read such stuff (almost) end to end , it took me some time, but the results were worth it. The picture it paints is not rosy, we-will-we-will-rock-you, but overall it provides a good and realistic account on this complicated and […]
Posted in Architecture on February 9th, 2003 Comments Off
Andre Durand says “Imagine if someone hijacked the Liberty Alliance protocol.” This is way cool. Finally somebody talks about identity enabled applications and not just about identity as a platform, which on its own has zero utility for users.