May
17

VMWare, Identity and User-Centricity in the Enterprise

Johannes Ernst on May 17th, 2011

Lots of good commentary on VMWare’s new Horizon App Manager today, which is what their Tricipher acquisition seems to have turned into. The phrase that struck me the most — thus this post — was Krishnan‘s description at CloudAve: a user-centric management service for accessing cloud applications from any device. It clearly is user-centric: it [...]

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Apr
20

“HTTPS Now” Campaign Unfortunately Does Not Fix the Problem

Johannes Ernst on April 20th, 2011

EFF activist Eva Galperin in quoted in a ReadWriteWeb article introducing their new campaign: “HTTPS provides the minimum level of security for websites. Without it, no site can make any meaningful security or privacy guarantees to its users.” Well, wouldn’t that be nice! Particularly if HTTPS actually were providing that security. For a counter-point, read [...]

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Mar
14

The Death Of User-Centric Identity — for now

Johannes Ernst on March 14th, 2011

Around 2005/2006, there were about four major lines of thought on user-centric identity with a few variations. We can quibble about the exact numbers and times, but in broad strokes — which is what this post is all about — that seems about right. The Kim Cameron / Microsoft / CardSpace / Identity meta-system line [...]

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Mar
9

On the Demise of CardSpace

Johannes Ernst on March 9th, 2011

If you like slugfests between respected people, go no further than the recent yelling contest between Craig Burton (of Novell fame) and Kim Cameron (Microsoft) on what went wrong with CardSpace. Craig for sure has reasons to be angry because he’s been on the board of the Information Card Foundation that was set up by, [...]

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Aug
5

Push vs. Pull in identity — sounds familiar?

Johannes Ernst on August 5th, 2010

The blogosphere is buzzing over Bob Blakley’s recent presentation at the Gartner/Burton Catalyst conference. The issue seems to be this, as expressed by Ben Goodman of Novell: According to Blakley’s assertions, identity management today is based on a “push” model as IdM applications centrally store user entitlements and those entitlements are “pushed” out to the [...]

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