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Satya Nadella and President Xi Jinping

‘China’ Azure Breach: MUCH Worse Than Microsoft Said

| | Active Directory, Authentication, azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Entra ID, Exchange, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Azure Security, OpenID, Outlook.com, SB Blogwatch, Storm-0558, Wiz
Storm-0558 Breaks: Satya and Pooh, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G ...
Security Boulevard

Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

| | Authentication, Cloud Security, Cloud Trust, identity, OpenID, security
Last week, the White House announced its official National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). NSTIC is the largest-ever effort by the federal government and private sector partners (including Symantec) to ...
Blue Ocean

Cloud Identity, Trust and the Liability Elephant.

| | Authentication, cloud computing, Cloud Security, Cloud Trust, identity, OpenID, security, Trust
I have been involved with a couple similar initiatives around certification for identity and thought it would be interesting to explain the logic behind these efforts. The first initiative is led by ...
Blue Ocean

Greek Heroes, Facebook and Trust

| | Cloud Trust, identity, Media & Advertising, OpenID, security, Social networks, Trust
When Achilles was a baby, the oracle predicted that he would die in battle from an arrow. Thetis, Achilles' mother who did not want her son to die decided to dip Achilles' ...
Blue Ocean

Open Identity: the end of childhood, the age of assurance

| | Authentication, digital rights management, OpenID, security, Trust
This week is the week of the OpenID summit in Mountain View, California. We are all hoping that 2010 will be another pivotal year for open identity. There seems to be a ...
Blue Ocean

Open Identity Exchange: enabling all the VISAs of identity

| | Authentication, identity, OpenID, security, Trust
The Open Identity Exchange was launched this morning at the RSA conference in San Francisco. It is a significant step for federated identity as it will enable US government web sites such ...
Blue Ocean

US Government moves towards OpenID

| | AOL, Chief Information Officer, CIO Council, Department of Interior, E-Authentication, Equifax, Federal Identity Credentialing Committee, Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority, google, Gov 2.0 Summit, HSPD 12, Michael Mongold, National Institute of Health, O'Reilly, OpenID, Paypal, Technweb, Vivek Kundra, Yahoo
Jason Miller reports for Federal News Radio about the US government’s attempts to consolidate logins and potentially integrate current PIV card holders into a unified authentication and identity repository for accessing government ...
Michael Mongold's Technology Security

The breadth and complexities of identity management

| | Burton Group, CA, Enterprise Strategy Group, entitlement management, Federation, Forrester Research, Gartner, GCN, HSPD 12, IBM, Identity and Privacy Strategies, identity audit, identity management, metadirectories, Michael Mongold, Microsoft, Multi-Factor Authentication, Novell, OpenCard, OpenID, Oracle, password management, Peoplesoft EmpowHR, piv, privileged user, role management, Science Applications International Corp., Shibboleth System, SIAC, single sign on, Sun, User Provisioning, user-centric identity, virtual directories, web access management
From multi-factor authentication to single sign-on to user provisioning: identity management can be an incredibly broad and complex endeavor. In a great article, Drew Robb writing for GCN gives a high level ...
Michael Mongold's Technology Security