During my recent visit to Euro CACS - the Computer Audit and Control Symposium - in Stockholm the event night was held at the Vasa museum. This museum contains the preserved remains of the Vasa a 16 th century man of war that was recovered from the sea near Stockholm. The story of this ship is one that...

Excuse me while I blow our own horn a bit via the title of this blog. I recognize that excessive horn-blowing is not blogger couth. I do have a more general point to make in this blog – that the technology particulars of federation systems still do matter. But, first the facts. Recently CA and five other...

In 2006, the UK House of Lords undertook a far ranging study of the problem of internet crime and the resultant impact to individuals, businesses, and the economy as a whole. On August 10 th 2007, the results of the study were published under the title of “The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee...

It’s a little hackneyed to talk about how the Internet is expanding and how the potential to live, work and play on the Internet grows proportionately to this expansion, but it’s still true. We are almost daily exposed to new, “up-and-coming” services and ways to interact with one another, the most recent...

Being a contrarian by nature, I view the recent session at Burton Catalyst on Federation by Burton analyst Mike Neuenschwander, ( Evaluating the Growth of Federation Deployments: Is There a Glass Ceiling ?) and a companion research report by Mike ( Federation’s Future in the Balance: Teetering Between...

I was on an Identity Services panel at the recent Burton Group’s Catalyst conference in San Francisco. Burton Analyst Mark Diodati summoned architects from several companies (Phil Hunt/Oracle, Nick Nikols/Novell, Bill Dettlebeck/BEA, Don Bowen/Sun as well as CA) to talk about Identity Services. Topics...

Many CA-folks attended the Burton Group Catalyst conference a couple of weeks ago. Not to be a shill for Burton, but I have always found this conference to be one of the most informative of all the major industry events. The sessions typically have more depth than most conferences, and there are a number...

Recently I attended the IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) in Mountain View, CA at the Computer History Museum. If you ever get the chance to visit the museum, I highly recommend it. This conference is normally attended by about 100 technology individuals from all walks of life -- major vendors, educational...