Data Leakage Prevention – Something (not only) Swiss Banks Should have a Closer Look Into
08.02.2010 13:33
It has been in the press and Martin already wrote something in his blog about it -German tax authorities have been approached by various individuals who want to sell information about Germans who hold bank accounts at some Swiss Banks, like Credit Suisse and UBS. I don´t want to go into the discussion, wether such [...] READ MORE
Martin Kuppinger
How much security do we need?
04.02.2010 09:56
My colleague Jörg Resch blogged today about the ignorance regarding layered security approaches. Yes, there is no absolute security. Security is something which is tightly related to risk. Given that we can’t have the perfect security, especially not with people using systems, it’s always about the balance between the security-imposed risk and the cost of [...] READ MORE
European Identity Conference Blog
Virtual conference: Refinement, Expansion or Replacement
20.01.2010 00:16
The next Kuppinger Cole virtual conference will take place on February, 9 – 10:
Refinement, Expansion or Replacement – How to Maximize your Investment into Identity Management
Identity management has become part of the infrastructure in most companies today. In the meantime we all have learned, that identity management itself is much more than a single project, [...] READ MORE
Felix Gaehtgens
New Webinar series on Claims
06.01.2010 14:33
It’s been a few years since Kim Cameron presented the Identity Metasystem around the concept of “Claims”. If you’ve been following Kuppinger Cole you know how positive we have been about this framework. Years later, Claims are a reality, and there are multiple platforms out there that support using them. We have been advocating the [...] READ MORE
Tim Cole
Identity Management by accident or design?
22.11.2009 17:12
I was talking recently with Joerg Mauz, the CIO of a small German company called Ansmann AG that makes batteries and chargers for laptops and mobile phones. They may be tiny by some standards, but they have a big global footprint, and their 300 people are distributed around the globe from Shanghai to Macau to [...] READ MORE
Sebastian Rohr
Sony VAIO VGN-Z series – finally with VT-support
08.11.2009 19:02
I recently bought a very expensive high-end Sony VAIO VGN-z31 and was more than surprised and downright angry, when I found out they had disabled the “VT”support of the Intel CPU, making it almost useless when it comes to virtualization with Virtual PC, VMware Workstation, Xen or what ever your favourite Hypervisor was.
With their latest [...] READ MORE
