* Compliance Manager for File Shares is designed to protect sensitive information in unstructured data formats found in file shares
* Purchase of Völcker Informatik AG will give Quest the chance to provide a much more complete IAM solution
* Catalyst conference panelists conclude that no identity provider today can address the issue of having employees all over the world
* Unless improvements are made to LDAP, it may be time to move to a different protocol
* The explosion of identity-rich applications poses a challenge to the earlier belief that dictories would be the backbone identity systems for the Internet
* Task force formed to study federation; Novell offers free licenses for Sun IdM users
* OASIS Identity in the Cloud TC will develop profiles of open standards for identity deployment, provisioning and management
Ten years ago I wrote: 'Using a directory for relational data or a relational DBMS for directory data is like using a hammer to cut wood: It can be done, but a real carpenter wouldn't do it.'
* Just-in-time provisioning can be as useful within the enterprise as it is between two enterprises, or an enterprise and a cloud-based service provider
Oracle's lead lead strategist for identity management suggests that 'user provisioning of these services has to mimic the dynamic, highly automated nature of the cloud'
