Versatile authentication – break-through for mass adoption of strong authentication?
11.03.2010 11:57
Versatile authentication is one of the hot topics in IT – more and more vendors start to support it in some way or another. Versatile, a not that common term, means the ability to flexibly switch between different authentication methods. In practice, versatile authentication solutions shall support at least the following features:
Flexible use of different [...] READ MORE
Tim Cole
The business of business is trust
09.03.2010 08:25
Who’s pulling the cart on data protection? At least in Germany, that has traditionally been government’s role, and that has made the German regulatory environment one of the fiercest in the world for foreign enterprises and organizations. U.S. companies in particular are often reluctant to engage in the German market for fear of running afoul [...] READ MORE
Sebastian Rohr
Ever had trouble securely sharing data with business partners?
24.02.2010 19:23
Coming from a network security background, for me “IPSec 3DES VPNs” seemed to be the solution for secure data transfer between business partners for quite a long time. Over the years, with more experience, I naturally found out that this was not the solution for all use-cases and scenarios these crazy folks called “customers” came [...] 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 for [...] 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
European Identity Conference Blog
EIC 2010 Agenda Preview
12.02.2010 13:16
Joerg Resch is writing that the first draft of the agenda for the European Identity Conference 2010 is online:
Some very exciting and controversal strategic views, like for example Munich Re CIO Dr. Rainer Janßen talking about “what business has to learn, so that IT can align”, lots of “real” cloud security topics, many [...] READ MORE
