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Sxip News RSSArchives 2007 - Quarter 1
IIW: Moving User-Centric Identity Forward
21 March, 2007 - 3:26pm
Sxip is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming Internet Identity Workshop this May in Mountain View. The IIW is organized using open space principles and is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. As they aptly describe, "User-centric identity starts with the individual... It is not about a centralized solution, or anybody's silo. As such it solves different problems than the familiar ones of providing authentication and authorization services within a single organization, or federation between different organizations." Join us there to find out more and for the latest on OpenID and on our Identity 2.0 technologies such as Sxipper.
Cognos Securely Authenticates to Salesforce with Sxip Access
13 March, 2007 - 4:10pm
Cognos has solved their Salesforce authentication security needs with Sxip Access, implementing our on-demand identity management solution in under a day. Cognos' Chief IT Architect George Ellis stated, "Our Salesforce deployment is a global application with sensitive data. It was critical that we have the same extensive security controls in place for our on-demand applications as we do for those that are internal. Sxip was the only solution able to provide secure access for our users that was both simple for our employees to use and easy for IT to install and deploy." Learn how Sxip Access enabled their: IT team to centralize user management, internal web services authentication, and employees to login with two-factor authentication in our new Salesforce case study.
Identity 2.0 in Europe
5 March, 2007 - 3:07pm
Sxip's founder and CEO is giving a keynote on "User-centrism: The Solution to the Web Identity Crisis?" at the First European Identity Conference this spring in Germany. Following the keynote, Dick will be on a User-Centric panel with several Liberty Alliance / Federation advocates including Andre Durand and Conor Cahill in what will no doubt be a very lively debate. Hope to see you in Munich!
Sxip & Google on Integrated Security for Collaborative Computing
26 February, 2007 - 12:35pm
The move to on-demand "desktop" applications will profoundly alter how individuals retrieve, share and manage business-critical information. This trend offers businesses tremendous cost savings, improves efficiency and enhances productivity. However flexible access and integrated security requirements mean that IT departments must choose the right technologies to manage the security of online applications. Sxip's Founder & CEO Dick Hardt and Google's Enterprise Specialist Jeff Keltner will be presenting on "Integrated Security: Keeping Pace with Shifts Towards Collaborative Computing" at the Software-as-a-Service Conference this spring in Santa Clara. Find out why on-demand is in demand and join us there!
Sxip Identity Delivers On-Demand Identity Management for Google Apps
22 February, 2007 - 6:25am
Sxip today announced the availability of Sxip Access for Google Apps. The only identity and access management solution for Google Apps, Sxip Access extends the access privileges, security policies and manageability of the corporate network to the online world.
Identity 2.0 for the Next Web
19 February, 2007 - 5:50pm
Sxip's Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, is speaking on user-centric identity at the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam this summer. Join him and other internet visionaries in a discussion on the future of the web and how new technology, business models, innovation and culture affect the web's direction and the way we do business.
Vancouver firm major force in OpenID collaboration
13 February, 2007 - 8:36am
There's been a lot of great press coverage of the OpenID / Microsoft CardSpace announcement last week. The Vancouver Sun wrote a piece today stating, "The problem of having multiple Internet identities -- being forced to employ user names and passwords for every website that requires a sign-in -- may become a lot easier to handle. And that's thanks, in part, to Vancouver-based Sxip Identity." Another excellent article from last week's ITPRO said of the collaboration, "two of the most prominent technologies come together to deliver a phish-proof internet."
How to create a user-centric website using OpenID and PHP
8 February, 2007 - 10:28am
Want to make it easy for your users to login and easily provide you up-to-date data, while ensuring their privacy is protected? Join us at the upcoming Vancouver PHP conference where Sxip's OpenID tech lead, Johnny Bufu, and Bryght co-founder, James Walker, will give a joint session for PHP developers on how simple it is to get up and running with OpenID 2.0.
Microsoft to Work With the OpenID Community, Collaborating With Sxip, JanRain, and VeriSign
6 February, 2007 - 9:01am
Sxip, JanRain, Microsoft, and VeriSign will collaborate on interoperability between OpenID and Windows CardSpace to make the internet safer and easier to use.
Sxip Audit Named "Essential" Application in AppExchange
29 January, 2007 - 4:27pm
Sxip Audit, our free security dashboard for Salesforce, was recently chosen by salesforce.com as an essential tool in AppExchange. Listed in AppExchange Essentials, these are tools that are popular with users, quick to deploy, and easy to use. The apps on these hand-picked lists are good bets for test driving and installing. Sxip Audit allows administrators to monitor their organization's security status and activities. If you're a system administrator either using or test driving Salesforce, find out how secure your data is and download it for free!
Sxip is "Ready to Rocket"
25 January, 2007 - 11:46am
We're delighted to be selected as one of 25 BC companies "Ready to Rocket" by Rocket Builders. Published annually, Ready to Rocket is a unique business recognition list that profiles technology companies with the greatest potential for revenue growth. The "Ready to Rocket 25" list is the only predictive list of its kind in North America. In past years, the list has accurately chosen companies that have significant revenue growth, that are more likely to receive investment and that are more likely to get acquired.
Sxipper - Man's Best Friend for 2007
19 January, 2007 - 3:04pm
A new beta release of Sxipper, our identity manager for the web, is available. Sxipper is more accurate with thousands of more maps completed and enables you to do more semantic mapping (if you so choose!) You can now edit the map, Sxip the form or reload the map by right clicking in a text field, and forms not recognized by Sxipper can be mapped and reported. Read what others have to say in some great posts: such as "Sxipper - Man's Best Friend for 2007" Chuck writes, "pushing the envelope with their theories on “identity 2.0, but now they are putting it to good use. I downloaded Sxipper today and it doesn’t disappoint." And "Firefox plugin the gap that Microsoft fails to fill", Sam writes "a great new add-on from Sxip which provides “federated” OpenID login credentials to participating websites."
Committed to OpenID enabling your site?
18 January, 2007 - 5:43pm
Last night's OpenID Vancouver Mash Pit was a lot of fun, informative and quite productive! After a round of lightning talks on OpenID, Drupal, Federation, Open Search, Attribute Exchange, and the Java/Perl libraries, the serious hacking got underway in the PHP/Drupal room. A large group committed to OpenID-enable their sites as well as reciprocal testing/QA. Tres cool! Read more about the evening on James Walker's blog and check out some of the photos on my and Richard Eriksson's flickr sites.
Identity & Web 2.0
17 January, 2007 - 10:29am
Sxip's founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, is giving the closing keynote at the Web 2.0 Kongress this spring in Germany. Find out why Web 2.0 needs Identity 2.0 and how these disruptive technologies can resolve the current online identity problems.
On the Vanguard of Identity 2.0
11 January, 2007 - 12:44pm
Join us at the upcoming TTI/Vanguard Identity & Trust Forum. Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt is speaking on Identity 2.0. Other luminaries presenting include Kim Cameron, Scott Cantor, and Jamie Lewis, to name a few! TTI/Vanguard is an advanced technology forum for senior executives. They introduce, discuss, and evaluate emerging tech on the two-to-five year horizon with corporate and government leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and academics, to envision the future's future technologically. In highly interactive sessions, led by a world-class Advisory Board and today's most influential thought leaders, debate is stimulated and breakthrough ideas flourish. Register online by January 29...
Start the New Year with OpenID 2.0 in Vancouver
8 January, 2007 - 10:09pm
Join us for the only Canadian OpenID Mash Pit evening next week at the Sxip offices in downtown Vancouver. Learn more about OpenID 2.0 or come and share what you're already doing, and spend an evening hacking on the new code. We'll do a brief introduction on OpenID 2.0 and the new stuff you can do with it such as attribute exchange with the email verification service, followed by 5 minute lightening talks on whatever you want to demo or discuss, and then break out into small groups to help people actually dig into the "doing" of OpenID enabling their site. We'll also have a live webcast with the folks in Portland holding their Mash Pit event at the same time. More information and sign up is on the wiki. See you on the 17th!
User-Centric Identity: The Holy Grail to E-Commerce?
8 January, 2007 - 4:02pm
Sxip's Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, was featured today on the front page of the new Entrepreneur section of the National Post. The article, A Massive Opportunity, notes that for "companies, governments and virtually anyone who uses the Internet for business, how you prove who you are is turning into one of the biggest hurdles yet to be solved. It's the holy grail of e-commerce". We couldn't agree more and are engaged in the search! Stay tuned for more Identity 2.0 development coming soon...
Identity Breaches Tops 100 Million: US President Seeks Public Input
4 January, 2007 - 11:56am
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse recently reported that there have now been over 100 million incidents of compromised identity records in the US. As of today, the security breaches containing sensitive information totaled 100,453,858. In response, the Federal Identity Theft Task Force announced that they are seeking public comment on ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of federal government efforts to reduce identity theft. The Task Force was established last summer and will accept comments on their website until January 19.