federated identity in comment and analysis
Are we losing the security war?
Comment F is for Federated identity Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. What can be done to turn the tide, asks Simon Moores. A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise... [29 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment F is for Federated identity Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change, says Danny Bradbury [28 Mar 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment F is for Federated identity Data leaks are a growing problem. Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting out, let alone how to stop it. Tools exist to shore up those vulnerabilities, says Anthony Plewes. [19 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment F is for Federated identity Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. Hardly a week passes without another big data... [10 Mar 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment F is for Federated identity The issue of data encryption has been brought into sharp focus recently with the HMRC data loss fiasco. Paul Bentham explains why it is important government staff adhere to guidelines around it. [21 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment F is for Federated identity The fallout from the loss of sensitive data held by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs on 25 million people is only just beginning to be felt. From my point of view, it's rare indeed that the subject of two silicon.com... [21 Nov 2007]
Plugging and preventing data leaks
Comment Companies also need to think about how they can share confidential information with third parties, and this is where federated identity management comes into play. Although federated identity is still relatively unknown in smaller organisations, it... [07 Mar 2007]
Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended
Leader F is for Federated identity In this post-Enron era the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of white collar crime and corporate fraud is something still high on the agenda for the US authorities. [22 Nov 2006]
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader F is for Federated identity The Financial Services Authority is currently investigating. As the news broke you could almost hear the criminals, somewhere in Eastern Europe, counting to 10, waiting to launch a phishing scam exploiting this news. [14 Nov 2006]
Security in the spotlight
AS Analysis The country’s views on encryption and federated identity will be interesting to observe as business links develop with the west. Security has never been a more important issue in the business world than it is right now, as a record number of... [26 Sep 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Trusting Trustworthy Computing and m-commerce made easy
Comment In light of recent announcements from the Liberty Alliance camp, it is interesting to observe that a significant amount of effort has been put in to support a federated trust environment. It supports PKI, data encryption, identity management... [12 May 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile IDs, Novell does Linux and Adobe PDF mindshare
Comment It encourages the use of open, federated identities across multiple service providers, while providing the user with a single point of sign on. Project Liberty is all about creating, managing and authenticating online identities and brokering... [28 Apr 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft does CRM, the Liberty Alliance and Scient's nadir
Comment Liberty, on the other hand, will operate as a federated collection of supporters that are physically and commercially no closer than a signature on a contract. To provide an open standard for network identity spanning all network devices. [22 Jul 2002]
Microsoft - the company which shot the Liberty Alliance?
Comment The main aim of the alliance is to create open and federated single sign-on identity standards. News that HP and Mastercard have joined the Liberty Alliance was almost overshadowed by Microsoft's expressed interest in joining. [19 Dec 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Sun's web services progress, Toys R Us e-turnaround and the software slump
Comment To support this claim, Sun is one of the key members of the Liberty Alliance Project that has been formed to create an open, federated, single sign-on identity solution for customers using their channel of choice for business interaction. [02 Dec 2001]
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