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When and Where Strong Authentication Fails (by Avivah Litan)

by Earl Perkins  |  November 25, 2009  |  Comments Off

Please welcome to the IAM Blog my colleague Avivah Litan. She is preparing a research note on the critical topic of when and where strong athentication fails and has provided a preview of that note below. When and Where Strong Authentication Fails, by Avivah Litan Criminals are successfully launching man-in-the-browser attacks that circumvent strong two [...]

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The Greening of Identity and Access Management

by Earl Perkins  |  November 16, 2009  |  1 Comment

My colleagues and I just returned from our 4th annual IAM Summit in San Diego last week. It’s hard to believe that it has already been 4 years since the summit was established. It is summits like these that allow us more concentrated “face-time” during these few days with clients and vendors than a good portion of the [...]

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Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun and the Impact on Identity Management

by Earl Perkins  |  November 3, 2009  |  13 Comments

As an analyst, I’ve taken a lot of telephone and face-to-face inquiries about what we think will happen when the acquisition of Sun by Oracle is completed (or if it is completed– but that is another blog). We wrote a couple of research notes on the topic and more are in the works that look [...]

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