Wednesday, August 31, 2005

CA Extends Identity Federation Leadership With SAML 2.0 Support in eTrust SiteMinder

Support for SAML 2.0 Helps Reduce Cost and Risk of Connecting Distributed Business Applications and Users Across Web Domains.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Sun's President & COO: "A Federated DRM Solution Must Be Built By the Community, For the Community"

Details here.

Monday, August 29, 2005

CA Named Top Identity and Access Management Software Vendor for Fifth Consecutive Year

News here.

Friday, August 26, 2005

New biometrics standards from BSI business information

Details.

Digital Insight and TriCipher Partner to Enhance Online Banking Security With Multifactor Authentication

Partnership Will Provide Middle Market Financial Institutions With Customizable Solution That Helps Protect End Users and Administrators Against Online Fraud and Identity Theft

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Poor print exposing Pin numbers

The Pin numbers of millions of consumers are being put at risk by shoddy printing, warn security experts.

Explorer to get anti-phishing early

Microsoft will release an anti-phishing filter for Internet Explorer months ahead of its original schedule.

PassMark picks up voice authentication

PassMark Security has agreed to acquire Vocent Solutions, a move that will let it add Vocent's biometric voice authentication to its own Internet ID verification.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

BBC NEWS | Technology | ID theft spyware scam uncovered

Security firm Sunbelt Software said it stumbled across a US-based server storing megabytes of data stolen from compromised computers while researching spyware infections.

Identity Standards Rely on Trust Among Companies

To succeed, federated identity products and identity-based Web services need true interoperability.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Tech Companies to Watch

See here for details.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Enterprises Under-Spending for Security Budget Dollars Going to Regulatory Compliance

Despite growing risks posed by security threats and government regulations, enterprises have increased their security spend only 1.6% since 2003 and 75% of that increase has gone into compliance initiatives rather than security systems and technologies.

Windows 2000 worm hits US firms

More than 100 companies have been hit by computer viruses that exploit a recently found loophole in Windows.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Tips for Tackling Identity Management

CISO of Lehman Brothers, answers readers' questions about a hard-to-implement security-enhancing technology.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

India E-security Summit

economictimes.com, the online entity of the country’s leading financial daily, The Economic Times, is organising the India E-security Summit on August 23 and 24 in New Delhi and Mumbai respectively.

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

A Guide To Provisioning And Identity Management

Michael Burling of Thor writes an article on Identity Management and Provisioning.

A Guide To Provisioning And Identity Management

Michael Burling of Thor writes an article on Identity Management and Provisioning.

ComputerPartner - ActivCard buys Protocom

Authentication software vendor ActivCard Corp. has completed its acquisition of Australian identity management company Protocom Development Systems Pty. Ltd.