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Aussie Cell Phone Identity
Here is an interesting view on how cell phone numbers are becoming the key personal identifier in Australia. From the article: Most Australians can be identified by their date of birth, driver’s...
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Moving On
They say the only constant in life is change, and now indeed is a time of professional change for me. Jan 31st will be my last day working for BMC Software. This is a big change for me as after nearly...
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An Optimal Solution for Virtual Directories
Today at DEC2008 Optimal IdM unveiled their new Virtual Directory product. The Virtual Identity Server (VIS) is unique in that it is a pure .NET virtual directory intended for use with AD in a...
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An interesting question not asked enough
Matt Flynn relays an interesting question about federation. The question essentially boils down to this: How do we audit federation-enabled access to business services? What I find interesting is not...
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I have failed to communicate
Clayton Donley of Oracle makes some excellent points here about my “Elephant in the Room” post. But I have apparently done a poor job in communicating the whole point of the post. In his post: What I...
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Some advice about AD schema extensions
There was a little kerfuffle about AD schema extensions recently. Jackson Shaw smacked Mark Wilcox around about spreading FUD about Vintella and Mark walked it back a little later. I thought I would...
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The intersection of identity and ITSM
There has been an interesting discussion recently about the practice of application developers wanting to use SQL as a means of querying identity information rather than LDAP. You can read Kim...
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BMC and IdM
Felix Gaehtgens of Kuppinger Cole has some interesting observations about BMC’s new position on IdM (and gives me a nice mention as well). Radovan Semančík has some interesting speculation as well....
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Depressingly Familiar
Dave Kearns recently quoted some vendor numbers on the state of orphaned accounts in enterprises that are pretty scary. It’s not that I don’t believe the numbers. Quite the contrary, they are...
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Not necessarily so complicated
Ashraf Motiwala of Identropy points to an interesting SaaS WAM offering from a company called Symplified. In praising Symplified, Ashraf makes this assertion: Anyone who knows idenity knows that WAM...
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