by Earl Perkins | February 22, 2012 | Submit a Comment
—————————————————————————————————- And now for something really special. My colleague Ant Allan has written a blog on the recent NIST moves to fund alternatives to passwords. Enjoy! —————————————————————————————————- So, NIST intends to provide tens of millions of dollars in funding for people to develop and commericalize something better than legacy passwords, as part of the National [...]
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by Earl Perkins | October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment
IBM’s announcement today of their acquisition of Q1 Labs, a security information and event management (SIEM) company, highlights a growing industry trend that has implications for identity and access management: acquiring tools and services available to support a formal security and IAM ‘intelligence’ practice in an enterprise or on behalf of an enterprise. What has [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 22, 2011 | 2 Comments
On the list of major annoyances for me are the trite media “sound bites” that you often here on television or online, mostly by politicians, where they attempt to get their idea across in 5 seconds or less with a memorable turn of words. These phrases are decidedly unable to articulate the nature of the [...]
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by Earl Perkins | July 21, 2011 | Comments Off
Well, here we are. Identity and access management as a discipline has been here in various guises for decades now, starting from early and simple administration of passwords to the present day of access management, identity administration, and an assortment of technologies that supposedly help enterprises (and citizens/consumers/partners/fill-in-the-blank) to have a consistent experience with managing [...]
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by Earl Perkins | May 19, 2011 | Comments Off
It is embarrassing to have waited so long to write something in our blog when so much is happening in our industry. I really have no good excuse, so let’s get to the reason for this one. Or rather I should say “reasons”, since I’d like to talk about a few different topics. Consider it [...]
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