Yahoo has started a program where users may request to have existing account and email names transferred to them. If a requested account has not been in use for an extended period of time, Yahoo will transfer this account to…
Category: Identity
Peter and Anil recently made a very important point why attributes cannot be assigned “assurance” levels akin to authentication decisions. Instead, they suggested that attributes and their sources may be assigned “confidence scores” that may allow a service provider to…
Anil talks about LoA for attributes in response to some of the discussion at the recent IDTrust at NIST. This discussion came up a couple of times before, and I seem to recall talking about this: In the bigger picture…
If (and that’s a big IF, I know) you know someone who is looking for a job in Identity Management, we have a job opening at MITRE right now: Goto http://tinyurl.com/ku3ax and search for req ID: 17068BR Job Title: Identity…
The Kantara User Managed Access (UMA) work group just published a press release about the recent Internet Draft they published with the IETF. Since the beginning, hData has looked into the UMA model as a very attractive patient-centric discretionary access…
Long overdue, here is a paper I published last fall on use cases and integration templates for distributed service architectures. While this is not necessarily the most advanced set of use cases, it is intended to guide implementation of technologies…
I meant to put this up for some time now – here is a paper I wrote on classifying a couple of functional service chaining use cases and potential security integration templates. It is intentionally not very intense, but I…
Here is a couple of questions I’d love to put out – if you have the time, please let me know since I am genuinely curious: Who has implemented a successfully chained service, with some propagation of identity? If you…
Service chaining is – in my mind – somewhat underappreciated as use case is identity management. It is being paid some lip service, but often put off as too hard to solve. Yet, many of the issues I face in…
Our effort to improve electronic health data exchange is starting to pick up some steam: After a very successful rounds of discussions at the HL7 General Plenary in Atlanta in late September (kudos to Andy Gregorowicz for covering this one)…