Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
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 develop a secure, standards-based and interoperable online identity ... Read More
Identity Proofing – the Next Mobile Business Opportunity?
It is clear that high assurance identity on the internet is going to require identity proofing. With more than 1 Billion Web users, and 3 Billion mobile users increasingly connected to the Internet, scalability is going to be essential ... Read More
Cloud Identity, Trust and the Liability Elephant.
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 the Open Identity Exchange and is based on ... Read More
Greek Heroes, Facebook and 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' body into the water of a river that ... Read More
PCI for the Cloud
For most enterprise and security vendors, the cloud is fascinating both as a technology and a business disruptor. In fact, SAAS CEOs such as Successfactor, SalesForce and NetSuite are hot shots in Silicon Valley these days. Yet, most of us ... Read More
Open Identity: the end of childhood, the age of assurance
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 combination of market forces that are making federated ... Read More
Open Identity Exchange: enabling all the VISAs of identity
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 as the NIH to embrace open identity standards ... Read More
Rethinking Internet Trust and Reputation
Today, we are launching the VeriSign Trust Seal, a new service for small and medium businesses with an online presence. It is a big day for everyone at VeriSign who has been working really hard on the new service the ... Read More
Google Hacked or Why the Cyber World Could Get M.A.D**
As the world already knows, Google and a few other prominent US companies got severely hacked around Christmas time last year. Sophos has an interesting analysis of the exploit. Web malware and a zero day vulnerability in IE6 were ... Read More
