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Bob Bragdon on Sunday, July 01, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
CSO Magazine
  
CSO Magazine is co-hosting this year's Digital ID World conference. In this podcast, CSO Publisher Bob Bragdon examines the identity marketplace and indicates why they have become so interested in it. Read More...

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Phil Becker on Thursday, May 10, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
  
Networks don't have "centers", rigid hierarchies, or even 100% definable structures. This decentralized, adaptive structural nature is one of the big strengths of networks, but identity and security technology has often fought against this nature of networks... Read More...

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Phil Becker on Sunday, April 08, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
Context & Perspective
  
This final article in a 4 part series examines various identity and identity based technologies, including some that don't quite yet see themselves as identity technologies, and explores how identity as a unifying organizing construct is driving products and architecture... Read More...

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Phil Becker on Saturday, January 06, 2007 (12:00 AM MST)
  
  
The final part of this five part series examines the many simultaneous changes occurring in the identity marketplace, putting them into perspective. Phil comes full circle, examining how identity management looks to those with a security and network infrastructure perspective, and how their outlook is evolving. Read More...

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Phil Becker on Thursday, November 16, 2006 (03:18 AM MST)
  
Context & Perspective
  
The language we use to talk about things dramatically affects how we are able to think about them. Read More...

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Phil Becker on Monday, May 14, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
General
  
Amidst the Web 2.0 buzz it is rare that pundits comment on its barriers. The main barrier is that while all this new connectivity and collaboration is taking place, there is no networked organizational paradigm to avoid chaos at scale with the new methods... Read More...
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Phil Becker on Sunday, May 13, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
General
  
"The Einstein Fallacy" refers to an apocryphal comment attributed to Einstein that "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." The Einstein fallacy is thus to conceptually oversimplify a problem in an attempt to make it easier to solve, creating a conceptually flawed model... Read More...
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Phil Becker on Saturday, May 12, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
General
  
This identity fallacy has kept identity management the province of very large companies for many years. Thankfully this is finally changing... Read More...
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Phil Becker on Friday, May 11, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
General
  
The fallacy that enterprise identity is hierarchical has affected and retarded the development of identity technology longer and more deeply than any other identity fallacy, but it just seems so logical... Read More...
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Phil Becker on Thursday, May 10, 2007 (12:00 AM MDT)
  
General
  
One of the most often encountered identity fallacies is that identity can be added into an application later - maybe even by someone else such as "the guys in the IT infrastructure, admin, or security groups." Closely related is believing that much less identity capability will be required by an application than ends up being the case... Read More...
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Spreading it far and wide
....the news, that is.... ...the news that you can find our new blog over on CSO Online (we've stopped blogging at ZDNet): the blog the feed...

Putting Marc in Context
Marc's making some comments about Dave Winer's comments about the recent Mobile Identity "unconference" (did you folllow that?). It is worth reading the whole post, as Marc makes some interesting points, but I feel obliged to offer up a few...

CXO Media and Digital ID World Partner
Big news from us today (of all places): IDG's CXO MEDIA, INC. ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH DIGITAL ID WORLD CIO and CSO Magazines Add Digital ID World Conference to Suite of Security Events; Security Pros to Convene in San Francisco September...

2007 Digital ID World Conference Dates Announced
All-star analyst advisory board formed to provide expert input on conference focus FRAMINGHAM, MA, November 14, 2006 - Digital ID World, the definitive gathering place for the identity industry, today announced that the 6th Annual Conference is scheduled to take...

The Upcoming IIW
Kaliya Hamlin sent along this note about the upcoming IIW: Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), Dec 4-6, 2006, Computer History Museum, Mountainview CA The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. User-centric identity starts with the...

The Dynamics of Networked Engagement
The following was originally posted in a different forum, and after some discussion, Phil and I thought that over time this thread might become relevant to Digital ID World as well. We shall see ;-) === I've been thinking a...

NIdM or NAC?
I'm spending a little time boning-up on my "NAC" knowledge in prep for the panels that I'm moderating about NAC (network access control) and IdM (identity management) at next week's Digital ID World (Did I mention that Digital ID World...

The IDDY and Digital ID World
As if we didn't already have a *boatload* going on at this year's Digital ID World, the Liberty Alliance has announced that they're going to be anchoring their new annual award presentation at Digital ID World. The IDDY (pronounced, "eye-d"...

IOS at Digital ID World
As I think I've said *endlessly*, our mission at Digital ID World is to be a supportive mechanism for the identity community. As such, we're very glad to have the Internet Identity Workshop involved in this year's event. IIW and...

Conferences
The "E3 shuts down" news (that's the 60,000 person gaming show saying that they're "downsizing" becasue their 4 major sponsors pulled out) has me thinking more and more about conferences - tech conferences, specifically. A couple of thoughts: 1. I...

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