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Sxip News RSSArchives 2006 - Quarter 2
Identity Management In An Outsourced World
30 June, 2006 - 2:06pm
Do you know who's accessing your on-demand apps? If you use a hosted web application, how do you know that your data is secure? Identity management provides a sophisticated approach to ensuring that only the right people have access to your data and applications. Join Sxip's founder and CEO, Dick Hardt, at SaaScon (Software-as-a-Service Conference) this fall in San Francisco as he describes the benefits of identity and access management and discusses approaches to implementing it in your organization.
InfoWorld Authenticates to Salesforce with Sxip Access
28 June, 2006 - 3:36pm
InfoWorld Media Group has solved their single sign-on, centralized user management and authentication security needs to Salesforce with Sxip Access, our appliance for on-demand identity management. InfoWorld's CTO Derek Butcher stated, "Our employees like only having to remember one password. IT appreciates the improved security that comes from the easy provisioning and deprovisioning. Controlling user access is much quicker and more efficient now.” Read more in the new Sxip Access case study.
Identity 2.0 & America's Colleges
26 June, 2006 - 10:05am
Sxip's Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, is giving the opening plenary on Identity 2.0 at the upcoming technology conference for the AACRAO (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers). The conference is designed to provide the knowledge you need to apply technology in support of student services on your campus and will be exploring a host of topics including identity and access management, emerging technologies, open source applications, and more.
Disturbing Identity Reports
23 June, 2006 - 11:08am
A couple recent news stories reinforce our belief in the need for Identity 2.0. The Anti-Phishing Working Group reported that May was a record month for phishing scams. According to the APWG there were 11,976 phishing websites last month, the most ever recorded, and a more than three-fold increase from 2005. Also of note, 34% of all phishing sites worldwide were hosted on infected American PCs! Other troubling announcements are from several US government agencies regarding the theft of identity data, including that of the FTC, Veterans Affairs, and the NNSA (which oversees the American nuclear weapons program).
Why URL-Based Identity Matters
21 June, 2006 - 10:02am
Join us at the annual Digital ID World conference this fall and learn why URL-based identity matters to enterprises and individuals alike. Johannes Ernst from Netmesh, Dick Hardt Sxip's CEO, and Mike Graves from VeriSign will have a likely very lively panel discussion on the subject. DIDW's topical focus this year covers the decentralization of identity. Hope to see you there!
Identity Open Space in Vancouver
20 June, 2006 - 1:49pm
It's great to see an identity event being held in our lovely hometown of Vancouver. We look forward to participating in this "unconference" and discussing the technical and social issues with user-centric identity. The organizers are the Internet Identity Workshop folks and the Liberty Alliance who plan to cover standards and specs, use cases, emerging technologies, and policy issues. Register before July 19 for the online discount. More details are also on the Open Space Facilitator's site, Kaliya Hamilton.
Emerging IdM Technologies at Catalyst: User-Centrism & Appliances
15 June, 2006 - 4:26pm
It's great to see the increased focus on user-centrism at the annual Burton Group Catalyst conference. President Jamie Lewis remarked in his opening keynote that there's a lot of hype around it being a solution for privacy and identity theft and that there's diverging opinions as to how we'll achieve an identity metasystem -- whether it's Microsoft, Higgins, or DIX. Of note, analyst Mike Neuenschwander stated identity appliances and user-centric products such as those by Microsoft and Sxip, are two of the three emerging identity management technologies.
Sxip Supportive of Novell's Bandit Open Source IdM Project
12 June, 2006 - 9:43am
Novell just announced the creation of Bandit, an open source project intended to unify disparate identity systems and provide a consistent approach to securing and managing identity. We believe the identity management industry needs a common approach to secure, role-based access and compliance reporting for the enterprise and open source projects like Bandit from Novell and Higgins are a great step in that direction. We see this as a natural complement to the user-centric Identity 2.0 efforts being made with SXIP and DIX and are excited to work with them on adding support of Bandit, Higgins and eDirectory.
CEO Secrets: Dick Hardt and Other Mavericks on Succeeding
1 June, 2006 - 10:42am
The main story of this month's BC Business Magazine profiles some of BC's most accomplished entrepreneurs and explores the characteristics needed to build a successful business. Featured on the cover, Sxip's Founder and CEO Dick Hardt, is described by reporter Corinne Friesen as "a local tech genius who exemplifies what these entrepreneurs have lots of: self-reliance and intution". Other common traits she notes are "crazy-passion about their work, quick to praise, stubborn as hell, a strong vision, loads of confidence and a desire to make a difference". Read more in "Tips from the Top".
Identity 2.0 Video Seen By Almost a Quarter of a Million
26 May, 2006 - 9:48am
Sxip reached a new milestone this week and surpassed 225,000 downloads of our Identity 2.0 video series. Viewed a total of 229,195 times, the videos provide a compelling and provocative look at the problems with the current identity and access management industry, present trends, and our vision for a user-centric identity future.
User-Centric Digital Identity Story - Podcast Part Two
24 May, 2006 - 5:26pm
Aldo Castañeda interviews Netmesh's Johannes Ernst, Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt and Nokia's John Kemp in the second half of this 30 minute user-centric identity podcast on: whether government should be involved, how the protocols compare, and if we're at a turning point of interoperable momentum.
Sxip & Salesforce.com Introduce Free Security Auditing Tool for AppExchange
24 May, 2006 - 7:53am
Sxip and salesforce.com today released Sxip Audit for Salesforce. Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, administrators can quickly and easily utilize Sxip Audit for a real-time snapshot of their Salesforce user activity -- and enables them to rapidly assess potential access control security and support issues.
Why Web 2.0 Needs Identity
23 May, 2006 - 2:01pm
ZDNet's Eric Norlin recently posted an excellent article commenting on a series of stories by Dion Hinchcliff on Web 2.0. Eric identifies the problem with this in that, "applications are creating data stores of identity information and attributes. And, by default, those applications are not interoperable with other Web 2.0 applications. Thus, we are 'silo'ing' even more identity data as we build out Web 2.0." He correctly identifies Identity 2.0 as the solution, noting that to do otherwise we are "still locking up identity data — in essence, keeping that section of its architecture 'web 1.0'."
User-Centric Digital Identity Story - Podcast Part One
22 May, 2006 - 2:56pm
Aldo Castañeda interviews Netmesh's Johannes Ernst, Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt and Nokia's John Kemp in this 30 minute podcast on: what user-centrism means, what they foresee for digital identity in 20 years, and their reflections on the recent Internet Identity Workshop.
Sxip Awarded Most Promising Startup Finalist by the BC TIA
19 May, 2006 - 9:48am
Sxip Identity has been chosen "Most Promising Startup" finalist by the BC Technology Industries Association. The award acknowledges an early-stage technology company (less than three years old) with commercially available products that demonstrates significant potential, creativity, and a promising future. The winner will be announced at the Technology Impact Awards Gala on June 8. Stay tuned!
Who Controls & Protects the Digital You?
17 May, 2006 - 1:58pm
Explore the role of identity systems in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil liberties and new forms of civic participation and commerce at the upcoming Identity Mash-Up Conference. The three day event is hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Sxip's Dick Hardt, Jamie Lewis of the Burton Group, David Winer creator of RSS, and other Internet visionaries will be speaking. Hope to see you there!
InfoWorld Chooses Sxip Among 15 Tech Startups to Watch
15 May, 2006 - 1:56pm
InfoWorld has selected Sxip Identity as one of 15 Tech Startups to Watch, whose "technology meets tough IT challenges and introduces intriguing new capabilities". InfoWorld's editors based their picks on those companies that address IT problems in a new way, rather than merely refining what has gone before and believe that we have something special to offer enterprise customers. Find out what they have to say about Sxip Access, our IdM solution for ASPs such as salesforce.com, and about SXIP 2.0, our next generation Internet identity solution in Sxip Simplifies Identity Management Across Domains.
XML Digital Signatures and SXIP 2.0 Claims at YAPC
9 May, 2006 - 1:30am
Our SXIP Tech Lead, Keith Grennan, is speaking next month at the grassroots Yet Another Perl Conference on some of the cool new things developers can do with SXIP 2.0. He will give examples of signing and verifying XML with Perl, then describe how SXIP 2.0 signed claims (assertions) work, and show how they solve one of the most annoying problems of the Web - that hundreds of sites have interesting things to say about you but none of them speak the same language. Hope to see you in Chicago!
Sxip podcast from Internet Identity Workshop
8 May, 2006 - 1:49pm
Our founder and CEO, Dick Hardt, did an in-depth interview last week at IIW with Tom Maddox of Opinity. In this 30 minute comprehensive podcast they discuss: what digital identity management should look like, Sxip's support of Open Source technology, some of the limitations of Microsoft InfoCard, and more.
Phishing at record levels according to APWG
2 May, 2006 - 1:37pm
A recent study by the Anti-Phishing Work Group has found that phishing attacks and phishing-based Trojans have reached record numbers, up by 30% and over 100%, respectively since last year. This and analysis like David Sifry's new State of the Blogosphere that show 60% of pings are from spammers, really make the case for Identity 2.0 and why we need a new means for handling identity and reputation on the Web.
User-Centric Identity: Is it Really Identity We Need to Manage?
17 April, 2006 - 4:45am
Identity management is quickly becoming a societal issue for Internet communications, but as existing IdM technologies are applied to extra-enterprise uses, assumptions regarding spheres of control and top-down management appear outmoded. Is a new user-centric system the right approach for the enterprise in the future? Find out at the Burton Group Catalyst conference this summer. Hear from Sxip's Founder & CEO Dick Hardt, Microsoft's identity guru Kim Cameron, and Jamie Lewis the Burton Group's CEO & Research Chair, as well as other identity and privacy management visionaries in what's bound to be an entertaining and thought-provoking panel.
SXIP 2.0 Ruby On Rails Implementation Now Available
12 April, 2006 - 3:44am
We now have a Ruby On Rails Membersite implementation for SXIP 2.0 courtesy of developer Daniel Venkitachalam. The code, API documentation and a demo are available off his site at expandingbrain.com. Check it out and see how easy it is to get your website up and running with SXIP 2.0 using Rails!
Can New Identity Schemes Defeat Phishing?
7 April, 2006 - 2:44am
Will new user-centric intiatives help in the fight against identity theft issues like phishing? Will emerging standards like SXIP be the key? We're discussing these issues and others at the upcoming Anti-Phishing Working Group Meeting in two weeks in Chicago. The roundtable panel includes Sxip's Founder and CEO Dick Hardt, Microsoft's Identity guru Kim Cameron, and VeriSign's Principal Scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker. Stay tuned for their findings.