I liked Bob Blakey’s recent article on privacy, along with the paper he and Ian Glazer published. One direction that might need some additional coverage at some time is the “privacy of organizations”. Organizational sensitive data (such as trade secrets…
Category: Identity
Interesting news this week: Microsoft, SAP, and Siemens have been awarded the SAML interoperable certification for their SAML 2.0 products for the first time. From a customer perspective this excellent news – cross-vendor certifications by independent third parties are a…
User-centricity – often expressed in the “7 Laws of Identity” – has been a common theme in identity management for a while now. At the heart of these principles lies the desire to empower the end-users of a computer systems…
For this year’s Balisage in Montreal, we (R. Dingwell, A. Gregorowicz, H. Sleeper, and myself) have been accepted as a late-breaking proposal for our work on hData, which addresses some problems that are currently plaguing electronic health records. Our session…
The time has come to start working on comprehensive identity convergence … with Venngeance:
Trust is one of those concepts in IdM that are hard to define or measure, yet are at the basis of most of our transactions. There are a few different ways to look at trust or capture its essence, including…
When I read Larry Seltzer’s piece on H.R. S 773 IS, I fell into a constant nod about the issues he raised. In addition, I have two more: SEC. 11 (a): Lofty goals, but these seem rather obvious, since they…
The excellent article “Security and Data Sharing” by Mark Richard and Leslie Lebl points to a few very important ramifications that the less than ideal current data sharing situation with the E.U. brings and what the ratification of the horrible…
Through Ian Fletcher of Burton: Peter Fleischer of Google is now facing criminal charges for failing to prevent the publication of a defamatory video on Google’s video site – taking it down after 24 hours was not sufficient. While this…
Jeff thinks that my term describing the privacy situation in Europe is a little harsh. I cannot blame him, since the Europeans, and especially Germany has been working hard on presenting themselves as the global guardians of privacy. And, true…