http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr Kuppinger Cole + Partner Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:18:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the Gurus of User-Centric ID Management have discussed here and here, the idea of using CardSpace and special "Managed Cards", issued through the use of the Microsoft Acrtive Directory, InfoCards could actually become sort of an authentication token not only for your self, but for you being am employee of said issuer ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr/2008/06/29/cardspace-business-cards-pki-20/ Have you ever been to SAPPHIRE? No? You should! Despite my young age, I guess here is where you find how the spirit of the IT industry might have been in "those days", where multi-million dollar Mainframe deals were made. At least, that is the impression you get when you stroll around. I have ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr/2008/05/20/sapphire-berlin-day-2/ Have you ever encountered procedural problems while re-engineering your hiring process, retirement or resignation processes to adopt it to your brand new IAM solution? Did you feel that modifying your IAM system to cope with all the different requirements, access rights and approval chains might as well be tackled through ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr/2008/04/14/managing-external-ids/ During my recent analyst calls and briefings I came across a bunch of companies and products that all start to tackle an area I have been interested in for quite a while: getting the "holistic security" approach well beyond the borders of our mindset - beyond the digital realm! Being a ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr/2008/02/29/the-physical-the-digital-and-the-real-world/ I talked to my Sensei-san, Dr. Kpatcha Bayarou of Fraunhofer SIT, recently and allthough only having a few minutes, we came to some extreme views on what User Centric IAM really was about. Power! The power to control who gets access to what of my content and information! You are reading this ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr/2008/02/29/user-centric-iam-all-a-lie/ Ok, nothing is more boring than yesterdays news, I guess! Despite this oh so true statement, especially in the blogosphere, I would like to rant about SUN's recent acquisition of VAAU, a small company that offers tools around role mining and role engineering as well as compliance. I had the sincere pleasure ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr/2007/12/27/wow-for-vaau/ Welcome to my world of Digital Identity - hopefully it will be as entertaining (and hopefully at least slightly insightful) for you to read as it is for me to write! First of all, I would like to post my vision own of digital identities - which might slightly differ from ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/rohr/2007/12/27/hello-world/