As anyone in the identity industry knows, more lies between America and Europe that just an ocean. In fact, when it comes to privacy and data protection, a wide gulf separates the old and new worlds. Germany in particular is often perceived as hidebound, not to say paranoid, when it comes to companies collecting personal [...] READ MORE
European Identity Conference Blog
Google authentication support
27.08.2010 04:45
In addition to Facebook authentication, which we have added last month, you’re now able to log in to our website with your Google account. Don’t forget to check out your account page after signing up to edit your personal information and subscribe to our newsletters! READ MORE
Martin Kuppinger
Diving down to the details of access controls
12.08.2010 11:34
Provisioning is important to keep access under control, as well as Access Governance solutions play a vital role in that game. However, there is a third group of applications which is commonly required: Tools which allow to dive into the details of access controls in specific environments. There are SAP specific solutions and tools for [...] READ MORE
Sachar Paulus
The GRC Marketplace is shaking up: SAP and CA partnering on GRC
11.08.2010 10:05
In the last weeks, I had a number of interviews and product / vendor briefings about GRC related products. And as you may have noticed, the marketplace is yet pretty unstructured. Since there is still no generally accepted common definition or reference architecture for GRC (altough I have developed one, see my reports), anyone touching [...] READ MORE
Sebastian Rohr
Your token to VISA…
04.08.2010 20:18
The recently published document on protecting credit card data during processing and storage with tokenization technology has gathered quite a bit of response (see for yourself http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/tokenization_best_practices.pdf). As others like Mr. McMillon of RSA said before (http://www.rsa.com/blog/blog_entry.aspx?id=1687), it is an overall good approach – and my very recent experience with CC data processing in outsourcing [...] READ MORE
Felix Gaehtgens
Gerry Gebel joins Axiomatics
19.02.2010 17:40
My friend Gerry Gebel, long time Burton Group analyst is joining Axiomatics to ramp up the company’s US presence. I received an email from him that started by saying “I thought I would give you a nice surprise on a Saturday morning”… and indeed what a surprise that was! I can definitely understand Gerry’s choice [...] READ MORE
Joerg Resch
Identity Management is key to Smart Grid Security
17.02.2010 11:15
In 10-12 years from now, the whole Utilities and energy market will look dramatically different. Decentralization of energy production with consumers converting to prosumers pumping solar energy into the grid and offering their electric car batteries as storage facilities, spot markets for the masses offering electricity on demand with a fully transparent price fixing (energy [...] READ MORE
