by Ian Glazer | December 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
Just when you think the IAM market is about to settle down for a long winter’s nap, you are proven wrong, as evidenced by yesterday’s announcement that Quest has acquired BiTKOO. This acquisition adds BiTKOO’s externalized authorization management product –Keystone – to Quest’s stable of IAM technologies. With this latest market movement, there are three [...]
Category: Identity Management Market Tags: BitKOO, eam, iag, IAM, Keystone, Quest
by Ian Glazer | September 23, 2011 | 5 Comments
Microsoft announced that it has acquired “certain assets of BHOLD.” Without having received more details from the team at Microsoft, my interpretation is that they acquired the core of BHOLD’s product set – because they are claiming the acquisition will add “in-depth role management, separation of duties, access certification, and authorization management.” This is a [...]
Category: Identity Management Market Tags: BHOLD, FIM, iag, IAM, ILM, Microsoft, Omada, Quest, Voelker
by Ian Glazer | July 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
As you likely know by now, White House has released a draft strategy on the need for and use of an identity ecosystem. Known as the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, the NSTIC stems from earlier Cyberspace Policy Review. Core to the NSTIC is the desire to build an identity ecosystem and this [...]
Category: Identity Management Market Tags: #cat10, cybersecurity, ICAM, idm, nstic, oi4b, open identity
by Ian Glazer | July 20, 2010 | 8 Comments
Yesterday, I delivered the keynote to a federated attribute-based access control (ABAC) symposium. For those of you keeping score at home this is the 3rd of *BAC approaches for authorizing individuals. The 1st *BAC, IBAC – identity-based access control – was essentially so trivial that it never got any good marketing*. The 2nd, RBAC – [...]
Category: Identity Management Market Tags: #cat10, #fedabac, abac, federation, fga, idm
by Ian Glazer | June 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
Just back from this year’s volcano-delayed Catalyst EU. In the 8+ years I’ve had a relationship with Burton Group, as a customer, vendor, and employee, I’ve never been to an EU Catalyst until this year. Long overdue to say the least. This was the first time we’ve had a plenary session to kick Catalyst off [...]
Category: Identity Management Market Tags: #cat10, federation, iag, ICAM
