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RSA Federated Identity Manager: A Technical Overview
White Paper This paper summarizes the concepts underlying federated identity, explores the standards and specifications that are emerging to support identity federation, including the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and... [05 Oct 2009]
Cloud: Resistance is futile
News According to Courtot, a number of improvements are needed before cloud computing will be able to take off, including the development of more secure browsers, stronger authentication and federated ID in the cloud, secure... [27 Apr 2009]
eBay: Let us look inside your PC
News According to Cullinane, eBay is also considering introducing a federated identity system in future, which could simplify the log-in process by moving towards a single login across eBay and other sites and services. [23 Feb 2009]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News F is for Federated identity Fraud-as-a-service is opening up computer crime to people with no technical expertise warned Uri Rivner, head of new technology at security company RSA. Speaking at the... [31 Oct 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News F is for Federated identity Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Microsoft chief security advisor Ed Gibson, who helped advise government on the newly formed Police Central E-crime Unit (PCEU),... [30 Oct 2008]
Protecting the Beijing Olympics from hackers
News F is for Federated identity At the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Vladan Todorovic, information security manager for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, described how the team coped with the alarms triggered... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News F is for Federated identity Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London he said: "We see frequent attacks on organisations for the purpose of theft of property. The computer systems of critical... [29 Oct 2008]
Credit crunch storm looms for IT security
News F is for Federated identity Industry is facing the looming threat of new data auditing rules in the wake of the credit crunch, combined with the security headache of the introduction of cost cutting technologies, warned... [28 Oct 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News F is for Federated identity Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. Employees and insiders... [17 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News F is for Federated identity Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. [16 Apr 2008]
Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'
News F is for Federated identity Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. At this year's... [14 Apr 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News F is for Federated identity Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing... [11 Apr 2008]
Insider security risks exposed
News F is for Federated identity Employees are still one of the biggest threats to corporate IT security both through malicious and accidental actions. Vipin Samar, VP of database security at Oracle, said: "You see a whole... [10 Apr 2008]
How Google keeps its tech security tip top
News F is for Federated identity Google director of product management Scott Petry - founder of Postini, which is now owned by the search giant - gave the low-down on the web giant's approach to security at the... [10 Apr 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News F is for Federated identity Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. President of the... [10 Apr 2008]