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2010
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08.03.10 Sebastian Rohr: Can authentication be both strong and flexible?
Whether you want to place a bid at Bay, check your bank balance online or your credit rating at Schufa or Experian, or access your corporate SAP account: Instead of asking you to please enter…
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02.03.10 Felix Gaehtgens: Microsoft releases its privacy-enabling U-Prove technology
Microsoft has just announced the availability of U-Prove - an innovative privacy-enabling technology that it acquired almost exactly two years ago. This is a significant announcement, because…
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25.02.10 Tim Cole: Barcelona Deja-vu
It’s the phone industry’s dirty little secret: As humble “handys” (as German’s quaintly persist in calling mobile handsets) morph themselves into miniature…
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18.02.10 Martin Kuppinger: GRC and IT Security - where is the link?
GRC became one of the really hot topics in business and IT, especially in larger organizations, over the course of the last few years. However, there is a lot of confusion about the terms…
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13.02.10 Sachar Paulus: "Cloud-readiness" – What it means for software developers
Everybody’s up in the air about clouds, but few seem to really know where they’re heading. Most existing applications aren’t ready for the cloud quite yet, especially since…
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26.01.10 Martin Kuppinger: Risk and Services take center stage among IT managers
Simplicity – not to be confused with oversimplification – is the key to successful management. By focusing on the critical issues of risk and services, companies can be sure they…
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14.01.10 Sebastian Rohr: Virtual (Desktop) Identities
I recently took the chance to investigate the virtualization market a bit deeper, namely the market for Virtual Desktops as I have been used to server virtualization and the different flavors…
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2009
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30.12.09 Martin Kuppinger: Why CIO should put GRC on the New Year’s resolution list
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) is one of the best-known and least understood buzzwords in IT today. As is too often the case, a variety of stakeholders have seized on the…
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14.12.09 Martin Kuppinger: CapEx and OpEx – the latest thing in IT buzzwords
Talking with IT decision makers these days, it seems that two new terms keep cropping up, namely the abbreviations “CapEx” and “OpEx”. They stand, of course, for…
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01.12.09 Martin Kuppinger: No Information Security Without Identity
IT professionals often have trouble convincing the budget managers that the often costly projects in Identity and Access Management (IAM) are really necessary. That should come as no…
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19.11.09 Tim Cole: Show me your terrorists!
I just came back from a meeting of the German chapter of IAPP, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and the words of the chairman, Dr. Jyn Schultze-Melling, a lawyer with…
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19.10.09 Martin Kuppinger: How to fight „GRC Anarchy“
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) has become a leading issue not only for IT professionals, but for senior management as well. However, it isn’t always clear who’s in…
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06.10.09 Sebastian Rohr: Identity Management: Challenge Outsourcing
Outsourcing and offshoring are a fact of life in many companies, but for some, when it comes to managing user identities and access rights or enforcing rules on governance, risk management…
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01.10.09 Martin Kuppinger: GRC – a heavily segmented market
GRC – Governance, Risk Management, Compliance. A typical buzzword, but well established right now. However, the problem of all emerging markets associated with a buzzword arises here as…
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18.08.09 Felix Gaehtgens: Quick Wins in Identity Management
In times of economic downturn, the pressure is on to save costs and increase efficiency. Everybody working in the IT sector will be familiar with projects being put on hold, spending frozen,…
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18.08.09 Felix Gaehtgens: Novell takes off into the Cloud
Novell has very recently announced a new product entitled "Cloud Security Services" - a comprehensive set of software that allows cloud providers to connect customers to their…
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17.08.09 Martin Kuppinger: Is PAM (or PIM or PUM) moving into Provisioning?
These days I have been talking with Siemens on enhancements for their DirX Identity product, a provisioning tool (and, by the way, a pretty good one). Amongst the new features is some support…
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08.07.09 Felix Gaehtgens: Google's latest bombshell: the Chrome operating system!
The news from Google  hit like a bombshell. Google is launching an operating system, called Chrome OS (like its web browser). According to the press release, the system will be…
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01.07.09 Tim Cole: Integralis set to become the security arm of NTT
By acquiring the Munich-based IT security specialist Integralis AG, the Japanese telco giant NTT (Nippon Telephone & Telegraph) plans to become a major player in the world-wide market for…
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26.06.09 Martin Kuppinger: Saving with security
This is true in many areas. Single solutions popularly labeled and sold under the name “Data Leakage Protection/Prevention” are mostly just conscience salvers. They may deal with…
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15.05.09 Martin Kuppinger: Trends and Threats in Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is clearly a hot topic in IT, but a closer look reveals that some elements are still missing and that in many use cases problems would be better addressed using…
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29.04.09 10 Top Trends 2009 for IAM and GRC
As in the past years, Kuppinger Cole has worked out 10 top trends in IAM (Identity and Access Management) and GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance). Things are going forward in 2009,…
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22.04.09 How could a future Oracle-Sun Identity Management Stack look like? General MORE 
02.04.09 Martin Kuppinger: Compliance as a risk?
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance) has become a core issue for any CIO over the course of the last few years. SOX brought popularity to IT compliance – and nowadays…
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23.03.09 Martin Kuppinger: The Cloud
One of the key IT topics is the “cloud”. This term which is somewhat “cloudy” is definitely relevant. But, like most new trends, it isn’t really new. Many…
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04.03.09 Martin Kuppinger: The need for a holistic approach to IAM, GRC, DLP, PAM, and IRM
IT is very well-known for first its ability to create three-letter acronyms and second the mix-up of different marketing terms, leading to overlapping and sometimes pretty unclear market…
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04.03.09 Martin Kuppinger: Novell acquires again
Novell recently announced two “acquisitions”. In fact these aren’t really acquisitions in the sense of Novell buying entire companies but the result is pretty the same.
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23.02.09 Sebastian Rohr: eGovernment and eID in Europe
Ever since the infamous “Signaturgesetz”   (law for the regulation of electronic signatures) had passed the Bundestag (parliament) in Germany, the industry moaned about…
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29.01.09 1-day eema-Workshop: Role Life Cycle Management and IAM - 5 March 2009
This meeting is a one-day event at Ascure, Belgium and is organized in cooperation with Kuppinger Cole and EEMA.
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28.01.09 Martin Kuppinger: Engiweb – worth to look at
Even while most IAM and GRC software is provided by US-based companies, there are several vendors from other countries. Eurekify, from Israel, is now part of CA. But there are companies like…
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22.01.09 Martin Kuppinger: Authorization Strategy
Even while some expert’s in the industry understand authorization management still as sort of “rocket science”, the year 2008 has shown significant evolution in that field.…
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12.01.09 Martin Kuppinger: CIO Agenda 2009
The year 2009 will be a threat for most CIOs. There will be pressure on IT budgets. On the other hand, many threats like Governance and Risk Management aren’t solved in most…
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05.01.09 Sebastian Rohr: Authentication 2.0 - Beyond username and passwords
More and more organizations –driven by the vast amount of media coverage on data loss incidents –realize that the increased security requirements can not to be met by making…
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2008
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19.12.08 Martin Kuppinger: Virtualization – changing the IT world
Over the last few years, virtualization has become a main topic of IT. Even though it isn’t a new concept, there have been many changes which affect IT in various areas, from data…
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16.12.08 Martin Kuppinger: The future role of the CIO
I received the results of a study compiled by the “Center of CIO Leadership” and sponsored by IBM.
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16.12.08 Martin Kuppinger: Enterprise Role Management
The Kuppinger Cole definition of generic GRC tools which support a consistent platform approach to GRC requirements, includes role management capabilities as one of the core functional areas.…
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15.12.08 Felix Gaehtgens: ArisID is born – a next generation Identity Framework for Developers
The Liberty Alliance has announced the availability of ArisID and Project Aristotle. In a recent Webcast , Oracle's Phil Hunt presented ArisID and demonstrated its usefulness to software…
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05.12.08 Martin Kuppinger: Sharepoint – a security risk?
There is an increasing number of security tools which support Microsoft Sharepoint. That is an indicator of Microsoft’s success in this market – but it is as well an indicator for…
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27.11.08 Martin Kuppinger: The need for an integrated risk management
During our GRC Forum 2008 which we’ve held in Frankfurt, one of the important discussions was around the way risk management should be implemented. There was broad agreement on the…
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13.11.08 Vendor Report: Lieberman Software
Lieberman Software is an established software vendor with focus on Add-ons for Windows manage-ment. The core focus is solutions for mass management and PAM (Privileged Account Management).…
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04.11.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Ping Identity moves into the cloud
At this years "Dreamforce" - the yearly conference for Salesforce.com customers, Ping Identity has announced a new product: PingConnect. This latest offering is an on-demand service…
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30.10.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Microsoft’s enters the Cloud Computing market with “Azure”
At the opening keynotes of Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference 2008, the big news was the introduction of the Azure Services Platform, an internet-scale cloud services…
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27.10.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Microsoft's new Identity Platform is called Geneva
Microsoft is making several important announcements in the identity management area at this week's Professional Developer's conference. What many are eagerly awaiting is the final decision on…
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20.10.08 Martin Kuppinger: Governance, Risk Management, Compliance
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) is presently a core topic for every mid-sized and large organization. The number of regulations is growing. Auditors are focusing on Corporate…
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17.10.08 Kuppinger Cole Roadmap Report Identity Management 2009
Kuppinger Cole, focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM), GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance), digital identities in companies, the Internet and society as well as Cloud…
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29.09.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Sun's new Access Manager is now OpenSSO Enterprise
Two months after unveiling the new strategy for its OpenSSO platform, Sun releases the next version of Access Manager. In keeping with Sun traditions, it's time for another product renaming…
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29.09.08 Martin Kuppinger: Trend Report IAM and GRC 2009-2019
Investments in IAM and GRC have to solve current needs - but what about the future? With IAM and GRC building the cornerstones of a holistic security infrastructure, decisions within these…
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29.09.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Managed Identity Services: Talking the Talk with Covisint
At the last Digital ID World conference, I bumped into Douglas Anter by sheer luck at the Ping Identity party. He is responsible for Public and Analyst Relations at Compuware, the company…
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22.09.08 Product Report: Symlabs Virtual Directory and LDAP Proxy
Symlabs has launched version 4.0 of its "Virtual Directory Server" and "LDAP Proxy" products in April 2008. Both products are essentially the same code base, but differ in…
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22.09.08 Sebastian Rohr: Integration and convergence - for compliances´sake?
Recently the topic of compliance management and enforcement of compliance regulations in relation to identity management solutions has gained momentum. On September 2nd, Novell announced a…
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16.09.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Ping Identity repositions itself by adding important SaaS Features
On September 9th, Ping Identity announced the availability of version 5.2 of PingFederate. This comes on the heels of Ping Identity’s acquisition of the SXIP Access product from…
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12.09.08 Martin Kuppinger: Motion in the authentication market
With today's completion of the takeover of the SafeWord product family of Secure Computing by Aladdin, a new mobility has entered the dynamic market for strong authentication mechanisms,…
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14.08.08 Martin Kuppinger: Think beyond the silo
In the survey recently published on the relation of SOA and Identity Management and the status of the SOA Governance which we developed together with Ernst & Young, it has become clear…
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14.08.08 Martin Kuppinger: Federation: The actual challenges become visible
The concept of Identity Federation slowly begins to establish itself, whether in Back-End with “classical” approaches or in the form of the user-centric Identity Management. The…
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12.08.08 MARTIN KUPPINGER: GRC – one needs it
It is presently discussed, especially in USA, whether GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) or to be exact, standardized solutions are more significant for GRC. It is interesting to…
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24.07.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Sun unveils new models for OpenSSO
Sun has just announced a revamp of its business model around its access management products. Previously, Sun had maintained its Access Manager product as the official commercial release…
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17.07.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Microsoft releases new "Zermatt" Identity Developer Framework
Microsoft has launched a new developer framework codenamed "Zermatt" on July 9th. It is currently in beta, and the first final version is expected towards the end of this year. This…
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03.07.08 IBM strengthens security offerings
IBM recently announced some new products and a research initiative around IT security. The research initiative called “Phantom” focuses on new security threats in virtualized…
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03.07.08 SAP Ventures invests in Imprivata
Imprivata, one of the leading vendors in the Enterprise SSO space and unique in its use of a hardware appliance, has closed its Series C funding of 15 million US$. SAP Ventures, the venture…
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01.07.08 Beyond Microsoft…
Information Cards, also abbreviated Infocards, are the technical foundation for, amongst others, Microsoft CardSpace and The Higgins Project driven by Novell. They will gain momentum…
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28.06.08 Vendor Report: Microsoft
Microsoft entered the market of Identity Management providers very late and at this stage adapted its portfolio of in-house tools for user account administration and access privileges to the…
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27.06.08 Security is when no one can access the network
I’ve been talking with Felix Gaehtgens, who attended the RSA Conference this spring in San Francisco. Besides discussing the news from different vendors we came to another topic. Felix…
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26.06.08 Felix Gaehtgens: First Analysis of Microsoft ILM 2
Some days ago, Microsoft announced at its Tech-Ed conference for IT professionals the start of the beta program for its Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) Version 2 beta 3. The current version…
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20.06.08 Project Concordia shows important step in Federation Interoperability
At the RSA conference in San Francisco 2008 in the second week of April, several vendors demonstrated new interoperability between previously incompatible federation protocols. Through…
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09.06.08 Quest: Two new tools for SSO
Quest is providing more and more tools in the Identity Management space. That is no surprise, given the fact that Jackson Shaw is Senior Product Manager at Quest. Jackson Shaw has been at…
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04.06.08 Identyx and Symlabs release new versions of Virtual Directory
In the first half of April, two vendors of virtual directory products have announced new major version of their software. Identyx, based in Austin, Texas, announced the availability of…
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03.06.08 An Interview with Eckhard Völcker, CEO Völcker Informatik AG
KCP: Mr. Völcker, your company has a history in Business Process Automation, which becomes increasingly important in the context of Business Service Management. What is your point of…
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21.05.08 Mike Small´s Keynote at EIC 2008
If you put together 40 years of experience in computer industry, an extra portion of extra-dry British humor and excellent thought leadership, you´ll get the right mix to really…
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21.05.08 Marne Gordan´s Keynote at EIC 2008
Marne´s brilliant keynote on the 32 Billion $ (2008) GRC Market. Talking about some famous examples in finance and health industries, she reminds us, that it is all about human behavior,…
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09.05.08 Hitachi-ID: Good strategy, great new opportunities, but no shopping spree!
I've recently briefed by Hitachi-ID (ex M-Tech) about what's going on now that they are operating under a new banner. On the line were the Shohams (Gideon and Idan) as well as the new Chief…
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07.05.08 Omada Identity Manager 6.1
Over the past 2 years the Danish software company Omada has reached the position as Microsoft's most important technology partner in the field of MIIS and ILM. In cooperation with Microsoft…
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05.05.08 Building an Identity Bus
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29.04.08 After the conference is before the conference...
Now the EIC 2008 is history. Numerous participants, exciting lectures, interesting discussions in Panels and also during the breaks...the conference offered everything.
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29.04.08 Outstanding Identity Management projects honoured
For the first time, analyst group KCP has handed out the European Identity Award at the European Identity Conference 2008 (EIC), the leading European event for Identity Management and GRC…
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19.04.08 GRC and Role Management
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) is amongst the most important emerging market segments in IT. KCP expects that there will be tools which integrate analysis, attestation,…
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14.04.08 Product Report: Imprivata OneSign 4.0
Imprivata OneSign is a hardware-appliance-based solution for enterprise single sign-on, which supports mechanisms for strong authentication and convergence to physical access-control systems.…
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02.04.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Microsoft needs to U-Prove what its plans are for the Credentica Technology
On March 6th, almost a month ago, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Montreal based Credentica, a technology leader in the online digital privacy area. It’s been almost a month, but…
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18.03.08 IBM acquires Encentuate to boost SSO capabilities
On March 13th, IBM announced that it has acquired Encentuate, a maker of enterprise single-sign-on software, session management and strong authentication components. Enterprise single-sign-on…
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12.03.08 Ping Identity acquires Sxip Access product line
This morning Ping Identity, a maker of federation software announced that it had acquired the Sxip’s Access product line from Sxip Identity Corporation. This includes several products,…
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07.03.08 CEBIT: 10 top trends in Identity Management
As in the past years, the analysts Kuppinger Cole + Partner have worked out 10 top trends in Identity Management. Some developmental aspects of Identity Management have already raised…
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03.03.08 OpenID going Large Scale
OpenID, a standard for an open, decentralized and domain-independent identity management, was one of the hot new topics at last year´s European Identity Conference (EIC). This year,…
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25.02.08 Martin Kuppinger: Data basis – essential fundament of Identity Management
As the 2007 version, the KPC Identity Management Roadmap 2008 provides a multi-level structure for the development of Identity Management – starting from the basic aspects that rather…
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25.02.08 Felix Gaehtgens: Dot Net Factory EmpowerID Suite Version 4
The Dot Net Factory, a provider of Windows Identity Management modules, is launching Version 4 of the EmpowerID Suite, a comprehensive Windows-based Identity Management suite. Users of…
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04.02.08 Martin Kuppinger: Context-based Authentication
In the past few years, the approach of risk-based authentication has gained in importance, particularly in banking. The goal is to anticipate possible attacks on the basis of information…
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31.01.08 Finance Industry - Quo Vadis?
Just as a reminder: A bank´s business model usually is, to take risks and to get paid for doing so. If a bank takes the role to pay for risks taken, the business model is broken and this…
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10.01.08 Kuppinger Cole + Partner reinforce their Analyst Team
Felix Gaehtgens, formerly Chief Architect for the virtual directory product at Symlabs, has joined the KPC team as Senior Analyst.
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2007
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11.12.07 Vendor Report: BHOLD
BHOLD is a specialized vendor focussing on Enterprise Authorization Management, i.e. the administration of authorizations to access IT systems from business level. In our opinion, this clearly…
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05.12.07 Kuppinger Cole + Partner reinforces its team of analysts
Sebastian Rohr, formerly Chief Security Advisor with Microsoft Deutschland, has joined the KPC team as senior partner.
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22.11.07 Martin Kuppinger: Who is suitable for attesting entitlements?
Among the prevailing issues within Identity Management also ranges the problem of attesting. Its topicality has been pushed by growing auditing requirements, thus being tightly linked to GRC…
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22.11.07 BSM and IAM not more than a first step towards liaison?
In some of my blog topics I have discussed the interaction of BSM (Business Service Management) and Identity Management, also considering the expected as well as developments. By the way, I…
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14.11.07 In Our Ecosystem, Anybody Can Play
Interview with Tim McCormick, Vice President Business Solutions Group IBM Internet Security Systems Global technology Services
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09.11.07 Short analysis: Cisco buys Securent
Enterprise Entitlement Management is one of the topics which will drastically gain in relevance during the coming few years. This is also reflected by Cisco´s acquisition of Securent.…
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09.11.07 Martin Kuppinger: An intelligent approach to mobile security
Security in the area of mobile devices is one of the most predominant of present challenges. Some approaches do exist, such as large cards which are moved into the slot for SD chips,…
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22.10.07 SISA (Secure Information Sharing Architecture) - a Brief Analysis
A conversation with Tim Upton, founder and CEO of Titus Labs, recently drew my attention to SISA (Secure Information Sharing Architecture). Titus Labs offers a solution for the classification…
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22.10.07 Can Service Orientation Make Sourcing More Flexible?
A question I discussed in all depth in the past weeks, partly during the KCP workshop “Identity Management in SAP environments“, is whether service orientation in identity…
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28.09.07 Identity Management for Medium-Sized Businesses
Identity management for medium-sized businesses is a topic that has been on my mind for a long time now. That there is need for identity management for those businesses seems obvious enough to…
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28.09.07 Short analysis: Oracle´s takeover of Bridgestream
The takeover of Bridgestream marks a further step in Oracle´s acquisition strategy after recently having bought  Bharosa, a vendor of risk-based authentication. Bridgestream is…
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28.09.07 SmartCards
Undoubtedly, one of the underhand winners in the IT market for the past 18 months have been vendors of card- and USB-token-based authentication mechanisms, including the software involved.…
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28.09.07 Identity Theft ? state of affairs
Identity Theft is anything but new, but still an exigent as well as unsolved problem. Only recently, Reto Hartinger, initiator of internet-briefing-ch, told me about a rather glaring case of…
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08.08.07 Vendor Report: Secude
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25.07.07 Trend Report: Identity Services
Identity Management muss und wird sich von monolithischen, funktional orientierten Produkten in den kommenden Jahren in Richtung zu service-orientierten Ansätzen entwickeln. Dabei gibt es…
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25.07.07 Product Report Imprivata
Imprivata OneSign ist eine auf einer Hardware-Appliance basierende Lösung für Enterprise Single Sign-On, die Mechanismen für die starke Authentifizierung und die Konvergenz zu…
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23.07.07 Trust Management in complex federation relations
Undoubtedly, Identity Federation is one of the most topical approaches of IT. It allows identity data to be commonly used beyond the boundaries of applications and enterprises. Authentication…
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23.07.07 Identity Management as success factor
Is Federation capable of helping smaller companies to be innovative and in the end draw level with the leaders in their field? A really exciting question, as I believe.
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23.07.07 Information Rights Management
In each of the Webinars held on the results of our market study 2006 I got stuck with something which is also the subject of lively discussions within KPC: Why is it that Information Rights…
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15.07.07 Role management - where is it heading?
I am working on a comprehensive report on standard tools for Role Management and their vendors. This has long been an item on my to-do list, but only now it has gained top priority. The reason…
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15.07.07 Why Directory Services are after all strategically relevant
In one of the latest issues of this newsletter I had tried to explain why the lively discussion about Directory Services has flagged. They have become a commodity, the most important…
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10.07.07 User Centric Identity Management
Two of the protagonists leading the way in the wide field of - as my partner TimCole likes to put it – Identity 2.0 is the OpenID-community on the one hand and Microsoft´s digital…
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10.07.07 A business approach for access controls
On the European Identity Conference 2007, the participants of one of the early birds of a feather sessions were taking a look into the future of Provisioning. Among other issues, the question…
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10.07.07 Vendor Report: Oracle
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10.07.07 Vendor Report: Siemens
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10.07.07 Vendor Report: Novell
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10.07.07 Technology Report: Virtual Directories
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10.07.07 Technology Report: Connectoren
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10.07.07 Product Report: MIIS 2003 mit Service Pack 1
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10.07.07 Product Report: Siemens DirX Identity 8
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05.07.07 Trends in Provisioning
What will be “the next big thing” of Identity Management? I think there will be two development steps both deserving to be described like this.
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05.07.07 Identity-Driven Security
We may look at the relationship between IT security and Identity Management as a hen-and-egg problem: What was first? And what prevails? Is security a subset of Identity Management, or vice…
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05.07.07 Identity Management and Business
I always appreciate feedback on my newsletter articles – especially positive feedback, of course. Recently I was able to do so twice: The first positive feedback concerned my article…
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29.06.07 Microsoft ILM 2007
Microsoft is about to deliver the Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 (ILM). After a closer look, it reveals itself as a combination of Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS) and the…
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29.06.07 The future of role management
In connection with Identity Federation, a discussion repeatedly circulating about Role Management is being renewed. A closer look at the discussion, however, reveals as a main focus the…
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29.06.07 Governance automation
Recently, the term Compliance Automation has become quite common. But – as often with new terms – a consistent comprehension of its meaning is still missing. In the following I…
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29.06.07 More flexibility for identity
Comparing the latest development of Identity Management with other IT areas, you will realize that the end is still out of sight. Identity Management is on the way towards developing into a…
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29.06.07 Cardspace B2B
CardSpace is a solution for end users – at least according to general opinion. In other words: It is an important element in business environments. According to KCP CardSpace will be in…
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29.06.07 Functions for the customers
Briefings with manufacturers of Identity Management products usually result in interesting insights – not only with regard to their products, but also to completely different topics. For…
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29.06.07 Business of user-centric identity management
Visiting a “Tech Talk” of the working group Internet of the Swiss Efficiency Clubs ( www.efficiency.ch ), I had the opportunity of taking part in an interesting discussion about…
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25.05.07 Short Analysis: Omada Identity Manager
Danish Vendor Omada has within the last year reached the position as a leading Microsoft Business Partner in the Identity Management space - especially in regards to enhancing MIIS.
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16.04.07 HP Mission Critical Partnership
When failure is not an option, traditional forms of IT support are often not enough. Through its Mission Critical Partnership programme HP offers CIOs something money can’t buy, namely…
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07.03.07 Siemens TISA
According to the results of the PISA study, Germany is rather mediocre, at least as far as the academic performance of its students goes. But now, with “TISA”, Siemens is proving…
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28.01.07 Which path to IT Shared Services?
As vendors and users begin to think about identity as a service, questions about what IT Shared Services (ITSS) really are and how best to implement them are being asked more and more…
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2006
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08.12.06 KCP Identity Management Marktstudie 2006/2007
Deutsche Großunternehmen sind zunehmend bereit, in Lösungen zum Identity & Access Management zu investieren. Schwerpunkte des Interesses bilden neben dem bereits etablierten…
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08.12.06 novell microsoft english
The public announcement of the new alliance between Microsoft and Novell doesn't even mention the term "identity management". But in fact, identity is what the whole deal is all about.
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08.11.06 Is Identity Just Another Shared Service?
IT Shared Services are a big buzzword these days, and many in the identity community are starting to catch the ITSS bug in a big way, too. It is important to understand what the concept of…
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05.10.06 Interview with Andre Durand of Ping Identity
During Digital ID World 2006 at Santa Clara, Alan Durand, CEO of Ping Identity, talked with KCP senior partner Tim Cole about the future of federated SSO and how it feels to be the Switzerland…
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19.04.06 Interview with Tony Redmond
As one of the world’s largest enterprises, HP is a popular target for hackers and data thieves, and so security is a big issue internally. In the process of providing a secure…
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2005
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31.12.05 The time has come for RFID
Like it or not: 2005 will be seen as the year RFID came of age.
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31.12.05 Compliance
In the financial industry, but in others as well, not a single IT investment decision will be made in the next 12 to 18 months that isn’t directly or indirectly impacted by regulatory concerns.
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31.12.05 Federation and eGovernment
Identity is central to any discussion about eGovernment. Unfortunately, though, nobody seems to know exactly whose responsibility it is to manage the necessary complex and expensive infrastructure.
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12.04.05 Federation and eGovernment
Identity Management is the final frontier,  the last great unsolved problem for IT today. Why? Because if I don’t know who I am dealing with I can’t do business in a networked…
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10.01.05 Trend Report - kostenloser Download
In diesem kostenlosen Report werden die wichtigsten Trends im Identity Management 2005 vorgestellt und analysiert. Eine Pflichtlektüre für alle, die beruflich mit Identity Management zu tun haben.
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Sicherheit
Firewalls sichern Netzwerke auf Protokollebene ab. Dieser Schutz ist einerseits unabdingbar, andererseits bei weitem nicht ausreichend. Unternehmensnetzwerke lassen sich heute nicht mehr mit…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Provisioning
User Provisioning war in den letzten beiden Jahren das Top-Thema im Identity Management-Markt. Das ist nun vorbei. 2005 wird User Provisioning als ein Baustein von vielen im Identity…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Applications
Die Erkenntnis, dass Identity Management ein Kernelement jeder IT-Strategie sein muss, wird sich 2005 durchsetzen. Systemmanagement-Lösungen, die keine enge Kopplung an Identitäten bieten,…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Privacy
Die Omnipräsenz der digitalen Identität und der durch Standardisierung aus technischen Zwängen befreite Daten- und Informationsfluss führt zu einer verstärkten öffentlichen Diskussion über die…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Mobile Security
Mobile Daten- und Kommunikationsgeräte wie PDAs, Smart Phones und Blackberry-Multifunktionsgeräte bilden durch mangelhafte Authentifizierungsmechanismen bei immer größeren Speichern ein…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: RFID
Radio Frequency Identification wird eine massenhafte Verbreitung als Ersatz für Barcodes zur Erkennung von Gegenständen finden, nicht jedoch 2005. Einerseits verhindern die noch zu…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Phishing
Das Vortäuschen falscher Absender im Web, um an Identitätsdaten und Kreditkartennummern zu gelangen ? das so genannte ?Phishing? ? ist 2004 in die Schlagzeilen geraten. Doch das war nur der…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Password Management
Die übliche Kombination von Benutzername und Passwort bietet heute keinen ausreichenden Schutz mehr vor dem Missbrauch digitaler Systeme. Doch die meisten Unternehmen werden noch eine Weile…
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Compliance
Firmen werden 2005 mehr Geld denn je für IT-Sicherheit ausgeben, aber es werden nicht die IT-Abteilungen sein, die diese Entwicklung vorantreiben, sondern die Geschäftsleitung ? und die Controller.
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10.01.05 Trends 2005: Federation
Identity Federation wird im kommenden Jahr das Thema Nummer eins im ohnehin dynamisch expandierenden Markt für Identity Management sein. Kuppinger Cole + Partner erwarten, dass die gemeinsame…
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10.01.05 Die Top Trends im Identity Management
Das Jahr 2005 verspricht auch in Deutschland den endgültigen Durchbruch beim Identity Management. Die Analysten von Kuppinger Cole + Partner sagen in ihrer Prognose für das kommende…
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2004
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29.07.04 IBM auf dem Weg zur Liberty Alliance
Überraschende Ankündigung am Rande des Burton Catalyst Conference letzte Woche in San Diego: France Telekom wird mit IBM das größte Federated Identity Projekt Europas durchziehen. 50 Millionen…
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28.07.04 Der Reiz des Einfachen
Meta Directory-Projekte sind komplex. Oft reichen aber einfachere Synchronisationslösungen für Verzeichnisse aus. CPS Systems SimpleSync macht seinem Namen Ehre.
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15.07.04 CAM-Kolumne
CRM war gestern - CAM ist heute. Beim Customer Asset Management spielen Identität und Beziehungsmanagement im engen Doppelpass, um dem Unternehmen vorausschauende Erkenntnisse über den…
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05.07.04 Kolumne: Richtlinienbasierende Administration
Die meisten Anbieter im Identity Management nutzen Richtlinien für die Administration. Damit soll alles einfacher werden ? nur: Bei so vielen verschiedenen Richtlinien wird das Problem eher…
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05.07.04 10 Fragen zum Identity Management an HP
Identity Management und Digital IDs sind mehr als Schlagwörter. Christoph Pfister, Leiter des IT Process and Data Management-Bereichs in der Adaptive Management-Organisation von HP,…
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29.06.04 Provisioning: Mehr als Verzeichnisdienste
Novell?s File System Factory zeigt, dass Provisioning mehr als Identitätsmanagement ist ? und dass Identitäten für das Provisioning eine zentrale Rolle spielen.
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21.05.04 Glücksspiel mit der Privatsphäre
Wer schützt uns vor unseren Beschützern? Der Europa-Abgeordnete Marco Cappato hat Stoff zum Nachdenken geliefert. Er warnt vor dem Entstehen von "E-Diktaturen" - und zwar auch bei uns.
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21.05.04 "Federated Identity löst das Security-Problem mit einem Schlag"
Federated Identity ist aus den Kinderschuhen raus und kann mit Hilfe der von der Liberty Alliance entwickelten Standards implementiert werden - mit weitreichenden Folgen für die vernetzte…
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10.05.04 RFID identifiziert Personen - nicht nur Güter
Vielleicht haben Sie ja auch schon bei der Aktionärsversammlung eines großer Unternehmens so ein supermodernes Namensschild bekommen, das mit RFID-Tag ausgestattet war. Mir passierte das jetzt…
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25.04.04 Kolumne: Liberty Alliance wird konkret
UMTS verschlang schon viele Milliarden und noch immer fahnden die Mobilfunkanbieter nach den ersten Killeranwendungen für den mobilen Breitbandstandard. Das Liberty Alliance Identity Web…
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08.04.04 10 Fragen zum Identity Management
Kuppinger Cole + Partner stellen Verantwortlichen der Identity Management-Anbieter 10 Fragen zum Thema. Die Sichtweise von Novell liefert Alan Nugent, Senior Vice President und Chief…
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07.04.04 Kolumne: Identitätsmanagement ? Politik, Strategie, Technologie
Identity Management-Projekten wird nachgesagt, dass sie zu 80% Politik und zu 20% Technologie sind. Die Realität bestätigt dies leider immer wieder. Zu viel Politik ist aber nicht die einzige…
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06.04.04 Zukunftssichere Geschäftsprozesse
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01.04.04 Web Services Security
Geschäftsprozesse, die sich über die Unternehmensgrenze hinaus erstrecken, sind längst Realität. Mit Web Services werden die Schnittstellen zunehmen ? und damit auch die Herausforderungen im…
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31.03.04 Digitale IDs und Identity Management
Die digitale ID steht im Mittelpunkt. Sie bildet die Basis für immer mehr Anwendungen. Mit Identity Management-Technologien werden die digitalen IDs gespeichert und verwaltet. Das Grundmodell…
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31.03.04 10 Fragen zum Identity Management
Kuppinger Cole + Partner stellen Verantwortlichen der Identity Management-Anbieter 10 Fragen zum Thema. Die Sichtweise von Siemens liefert Jürgen Görtz, Vice President Business Development bei…
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31.03.04 Kolumne: Identity Management und On Demand-IT
HP übernimmt TruLogica, nachdem schon Teile von Baltimore gekauft wurden. Sun kauft Waveset. IBM hat unter anderem Access360 erworben. Das alles zielt darauf ab, Komplettlösungen für eine…
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04.03.04 Über digitale Signaturen
Mit einem "Bündnis für elektronische Signaturen" wollen Wirtschaft und Staat in Deutschland endlich das Patt bei der Einführung digitaler Ausweise überwinden. Digital ID sprach mit…
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24.02.04 Von guten und schlechten Passwörtern
Passwort-Diebstahl ist in den meisten Unternehmen ein alltäglicher Vorgang, zumal die meisten Leute sich Kennwörter selbst nicht merken können und deshalb auf einen Zettel schreiben und…
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13.02.04 RFID im Vormarsch - Q&A mit i2 Managern
Der US-Handelskonzern Walmart hat mit seiner Entscheidung, seine wichtigsten Lieferanten zur Einführung von RFID zu zwingen, mit einem Schlag eine neue Diskussion um die Zukunft der…
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30.01.04 Management by Identity
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22.01.04 SAML: Der zentrale Standard für Identity Management
World Wide Web im Wandel: Neben Menschen nutzen immer mehr Maschinen die globale Datenautobahn. Damit verlagert sich aber auch der Innovationsschwerpunkt für Entwickler auf der ganzen Welt.…
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15.01.04 Identity Management als Führungsaufgabe
Chancen und Risiken fürs Unternehmen einzuschätzen und richtige Entscheidungen zu treffen gehört zu den Grundaufgaben des Managers. Das gilt genauso für das Thema Identity Management.
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12.01.04 Alptraum Konsolidierung
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11.01.04 Authentifizierung
Gemeinsam mit anderen Sicherheitssystemen ist die Authentifizierung Grundvoraussetzung für das Verfügbarmachen von Ressourcen und Anwendungen für autorisierte Benutzer wie…
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10.01.04 Vokabular: Identity Management
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10.01.04 Virtualisierung statt Integration?
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10.01.04 Identity Theft
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10.01.04 Kein Web Service ohne Identity Management
Web Services sind auf dem Vormarsch. Im Prinzip geht es darum, standardisierte Ansätze für die Kommunikation zwischen unterschiedlichen Systemen zu schaffen. Getrieben von Herstellern wie…
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10.01.04 Digital IDs: An Enabling Technology
Heute werden digitale Identitäten vor allem im Zusammenhang mit Sicherheitstechnologien betrachtet. Das ist aber nur der Anfang, denn digitale IDs machen viele neue Anwendungen überhaupt erst…
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10.01.04 Kerntechnologien des Identity Management
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07.01.04 Identity Management
Virtuelle Identitäten sind heute Realität. Weit über die Hälfte der Deutschen hat eine eigene eMail-Adresse, sehr viele sind bei Diensten wie Passport oder eBay registriert und agieren damit…
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