http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/id.html The latest identity-management news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/060509-unboundid-synchronization-server.html Directory and identity start-up UnboundID has released a free tool for Sun users to help them add missing capabilities to their directories and migrate off the platform. John Fontana 2009-06-05T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/060209bradner.html The idea that the White House would be interested in cybersecurity is not new. At least since former President Bush appointed Richard Clarke as National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism there has been some level of attention to this topic. But this attention has seemed to fade quite quickly after someone is appointed to a high-level cybersecurity czar-like role. Most people who have taken on that role have quickly quit in frustration. Scott Bradner 2009-06-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/microsoft-june09-book-competition.html In conjunction with Pearson Education, Microsoft Subnet is giving away 15 copies of the hot title "Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services 2008 How-To" by John Policelli (a $39.99 value). Deadline for entries is June 30, 2009. Julie Bort 2009-06-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/060109id1.html Those of you who know me know that I rarely get excited about hardware. And while I'll be telling you about two hardware companies in this newsletter, it isn't the hardware I want to talk about, but what these companies do with it. Dave Kearns 2009-05-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/techexec/2009/052509bestpractices.html Network access control is one of those technology categories that has a lot of promise but not a lot of users, despite the fact that solutions have been available for years. There are so many challenges to deploying a NAC solution, including cost, network security and infrastructure. A couple of veteran Cisco engineers set out to address those challenges and came up with a standards-based solution that combines NAC with identity management. Linda Musthaler 2009-05-21T05:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/051109id2.html Last week's European Identity Conference was, as always, a wonderful look at not only European advances in identity management, but what's happening worldwide. I had the opportunity to host panel discussions that included people from Germany, Holland, Sweden, Norway, France, Italy, the U.K., Belgium, Canada, the U.S., Australia and India. It's a wonderful way to discover that although identity management theory is pretty much the same the whole world over, the practice, or implementation, of that theory has many regional, cultural and national differences. Dave Kearns 2009-05-13T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/042709id2.html Last issue I started talking about the Oracle acquisition of Sun and what it means to the identity management industry and, most importantly, the identity management customers. One issue that cropped up in my conversations with vendors, consultants and users surprised me, since I thought we were well beyond the glory days of FUD. Dave Kearns 2009-04-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/042709id1.html Last week was the annual RSA Conference, which was the reason for lots and lots of press releases being, well, released. Unfortunately (depending on your point of view), most of them got overlooked because two Silicon Valley "legends-in-their-own-time" shook hands on a blockbuster deal as Oracle agreed to purchase Sun. Dave Kearns 2009-04-27T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042209-sun-ties-identity-to-google-apps.html Sun Wednesday tied its identity federation software to Google Apps and added its directory and Web application server to the cloud platform it is building for developers to build and test applications. John Fontana 2009-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/042009id2.html Regular readers will know that I'm a big fan of context-based access. I like the idea of gathering as much context information as possible and using it for authentication and authorization as well as governance and entitlement. But suppose we could make contextual judgments about access even before authentication? Dave Kearns 2009-04-22T12:00:00-04:00