http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch Kuppinger Cole + Partner Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:27:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I came across YubiKey, which is a hardware token generator from a young Swedisch comapny called Yubico. YubiKey is a small and slim USB device with just one button. If you push it, the device produces a 1-time password and sends it to the server. Compared to token generators ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2008/06/07/yubikey-new-hardware-for-strong-authentication/ I´m definately amongst the last ones to join the crowd blaming German Universities to lag behind international standards with regards to their educational program, especially in the fields of technology and computer sciences. But reading this press release, issued by the Faculty of Network and Data Security at ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2008/06/06/cardspace-hacked/ Today I listened to a podcast where Kevin Cunningham and Darran Rolls from Sailpoint Software talk in an interview with Jackie Gilbert about their impressions they brought back home from EIC 2008. Besides describing EIC as an event not to miss next year (thanks!), they compare the US and European ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2008/06/05/is-grc-something-different-in-europe-than-it-is-in-the-us/ It is absolutely impossible, that somebody in a position like Jerome Kerviel can hold trading positions for 50 bn Euros and burn 10% of that amount. It is impossible, because banks nowadays would never rely on simple password protection for their trading systems. they all have state-of-the-art identity management in place and ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2008/01/26/it-is-not-possible-that-a-single-trader-like-jerome-kerviel-burns-5bn-euro/ In a recent post, I  wrote about those 25 Million British people, whose bank information had been "lost". Jeremy Clarkson, a British TV presenter, wrote in his Sun newspaper column, that such a loss is of no value for somebody who may now own this data. To proof this, he ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2008/01/09/identity-theft-offline-fraud-in-banking-industry/ Today, I had to put an end to a story lasting for months now, where I tried to change my mobile phone contract I have had at Vodafone since 1996, through cancelling any contract which may exist under my name/my address/my bank account number/my customer number(s).  It all started, when ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2007/12/20/customer-identities-at-vodafone/ According to BBC news, UK Chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted "loss" of 25m records by UK Revenue and Customs. 2 disks containing personal information including names, birth dates, National Insurance Numbers and bank account details of 25 million people, essentially of all families resident in the UK with at least ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2007/11/20/uk-public-services-pushing-identity-theft-to-a-new-level/ On this year´s Digital ID World in San Francisco, Doc Searls held a keynote on Vendor Relationship Management (VRM), a concept he has been contributing to as a Harvard (Berkman Center) fellow. According to Doc, VRM is the inverse of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and provides methods and tools for ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2007/10/12/bye-bye-crm/ Ariel Gordon and Aude Pichelin from France Telecom (FT) yesterday announced at the 6th Digital ID World in San Francisco release of an OpenID service to their 40 million subscribers. Congratulations to the OpenID community for this big success. It is not surprising that it is FT with it´s Orange ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/resch/2007/09/26/orange-france-telekom-release-openid-service/