Continued from yesterday’s V=(EI)2, Part One The Function of V=(EI)2Encapsulating this in a simple profit motive expression we show: V = all Value of identity from all sources E = the Essence of an identity. This includes an assessment of energy, intelligence, financial strength, and overall capacity to engage, whether physically or virtually ...

Fresh from a Burton Catalyst meeting in Munich I was musing over the extraordinary change in attitude and approach towards the handling of so called “higher level assertions”, or the Rule and Role combinations that comprise the richness and “business intelligence” in an identity. (Also known somewhat dryly as “Access ...

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the future will be a world where the portability of identity credentials is fundamental: context and boundaries will be too fluid to use traditional hierarchical IT architectures to structure and control your business. In this model even application ownership will become less relevant, as ...

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the future will be a world where the portability of identity credentials is fundamental: context and boundaries will be too fluid to use traditional hierarchical IT architectures to structure and control your business. In this model even application ownership will become less relevant, as ...

One or two recent sharp digs in the side have invigorated me to put pen to paper and respond to the thesis that RSA Security has a disjointed portfolio in its relevance to the mega-trend of Identity Management. The stone-throwing seems to come from an improper understanding of the world ...

Since the FFIEC issued its recent guidance on authentication in the Internet banking arena (as blogged by my colleague Shannon Kellogg), a number of articles have rightly weighed up the merits – and deficiencies – of the various two-factor authentication solutions on the market. Many of these articles have drawn on ...

If you’ve ever wondered what intelligence agencies have in their basements, maybe it starts with the equivalent of several dozen 2.2GHz-Opteron-CPUs. That’s the amount of computing power the research team of F. Bahr, M. Boehm, J. Franke, and T. Kleinjung applied over a five-month period to factor the RSA-640 ...

Earlier this week, the Liberty Alliance Project announced the formation of a new Strong Authentication Experts Group. This is an important development because Liberty is a serious global organization that includes within its membership key technology vendors and large user organizations from around the world It also has a ...

TV spots in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco at the end of last week demonstrated the ease with which ‘live phishing’ can be carried out on the streets–to camera. RSA Security ‘researchers’ in the capital, working under the guise of performing a tourism survey, gleaned information including dates and ...

TV spots in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco at the end of last week demonstrated the ease with which ‘live phishing’ can be carried out on the streets–to camera. RSA Security ‘researchers’ in the capital, working under the guise of performing a tourism survey, gleaned information including dates and ...