http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/kearns.html The complete Network World opus of Dave Kearns. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/070609id1.html The buzz around Identity as a Service is heating up. I'll be discussing this in an online Webinar later this month ("Externalizing Identity into the Cloud,") but there are a couple of things I want to mention today that should be of interest. Dave Kearns 2009-07-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/062909id2.html I had a chat with Imprivata CTO David Ting last week about the new Imprivata OneSign FastPass. It's interesting in its own right, but what grabbed me was something that's on the horizon for an upcoming release. Dave Kearns 2009-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/062909id1.html Lots of announcements hitting the wires over the past couple of weeks, so we'll do a quick roundup in this issue and the next, and then go in depth in later issues for the announcements that warrant it. Dave Kearns 2009-06-26T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/062209id2.html Last week, with great fanfare, the Kantara Initiative was announced. In a burst of bravado, the initial press release was headlined "Kantara Initiative Reshapes Global Identity Landscape Based on Industry-Wide Collaboration." But just what is this group? Dave Kearns 2009-06-23T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/062209id1.html A couple of weeks ago I used the abbreviation IaaS for "Identity as a Service". Some people (including my editor) wondered about the alternative IdaaS. I said I'd stick with IaaS, but a paper I just read leads me to change that. Dave Kearns 2009-06-19T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/061509id2.html There's an important new document available in the field of "user-centric" identity, and it's one I think we should all read. Dave Kearns 2009-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/061509id1.html With everyone seemingly caught up in cloud computing, I was struck by this quote from a CNN story: Microsoft's "newest Internet software and applications project, Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS), aims to provide services to businesses such as records storage, billing, personalization, voice-to-text translation and other capabilities delivered via the Internet rather than by way of a local server." Sounds like cloud-based computing, doesn't it? Dave Kearns 2009-06-12T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/060809id2.html Everyone these days seems to want to talk about "the cloud". Cloud computing is the latest buzz phrase that all vendors seem  to want to attach to their product. But, as I mentioned some weeks ago ("Identity management is key to the proper operation of cloud computing", proper identity management is often lacking in the rush to cloud-enable services and applications. While the Cloud Computing Manifesto (see that earlier newsletter) pays lip service to identity needs, what's actually happening in the marketplace? Dave Kearns 2009-06-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/060809id1.html In one of the mailing lists I read (and I do read a ton of electronic bumpf in order to glean an enlightening paragraph or two), there's been a discussion lately of the phrase "Level of Assurance" (LoA) with at least one gentleman (well known in enterprise architecture circles, but who shall remain nameless here) trying to equate it with "trust" or even "level of trust" (a new coining, I think). So what does LoA really mean? Dave Kearns 2009-06-05T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/060109id2.html The mantra of the federation generation could be "no corporation is an island" and that's been taken as the marketing slogan for a new identity-as-a-service start-up called "GLUU." Dave Kearns 2009-06-02T12:00:00-04:00