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Sxip News RSSArchives 2007 - Quarter 3
CBC TV on BC government, citizen-centric ID & Sxip
27 September, 2007 - 4:13pm
CBC TV reported yesterday that the BC government will early next year test virtual identity cards enabling citizens to more safely and easily connect with the government's online services. Ian Bailey, director of application architecture for the province's Office of the Chief Information Officer, notes that "it will give us better privacy protection for individuals." He also stated that it would be done in accordance with the Seven Laws of Identity by Microsoft's identity architect Kim Cameron. The CBC concludes that the project includes identity companies CA, Microsoft and Sxip.
An Identity Interoperability Catalyst
24 September, 2007 - 10:01am
Interested in learning how the industry can move forward with identity interoperability? Join our founder & CEO Dick Hardt at Catalyst Europe, where in addition to his talk on the State of User-Centric Identity, he will be participating in a panel on Protocol Preferences: How All this Stuff is Going to Work Together led by the Burton Group's Bob Blakely. Then stop by the Interop session that evening to see the technologies in action. Contact us for a free pass to the Interop hospitality suite.
Sxipper Wins People's Choice for Best Web 2.0 App
23 September, 2007 - 8:31am
Sxipper, our internet identity manager, was voted Best Web 2.0 App in the PopVox awards last evening. The people’s choice awards for the Vancouver International Digital Festival, PopVox recognizes all major sectors of the digital media industry and celebrates its creativity, talent, and achievements. Sxipper was nominated in two categories, the Homegrown Best of BC and Best Web 2.0 App. See the New Media BC press release for more details. Our sincerest thanks to everyone who voted for us!
Brilliant Identity 2.0 Media
19 September, 2007 - 12:40pm
This identity video remix is just absolutely brilliant, kudos to Dominic Sayers and of course Bob Dylan! (If you haven't seen the original video, check it out on our Identity 2.0 blog.) Other great recent posts on user-centric identity include this thoughtful examination by Sam Curry at CA "The Significance of Identity 2.0" and this detailed summary by Brian Schmitt "Research Post on Identity 2.0".
Vote for Sxipper in New Media Awards!
13 September, 2007 - 10:09am
Sxipper has been nominated in two categories for the Popvox awards, the people’s choice awards for the Vancouver International Digital Festival. The Popvox awards recognizes all major sectors of the digital media industry and celebrates its creativity, talent, and achievements. Please vote for your favorite identity *retriever* in the Homegrown Best of BC and Best Web 2.0 App. Note that you need to register in order to vote, which is a snap since the site has naturally been trained by Sxipper!
NY Times on OpenID, Phishing & ID Theft
11 September, 2007 - 4:18pm
Melissa Lafsky in her New York Times blog, recently queried whether OpenID is the solution to online identity theft. She suggests that many internet giants like AOL, Microsoft and VeriSign have announced support and cites Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt's perspective that OpenID is the next generation of managing ID on the web. She also, however, expresses some concern with possible phishing issues. We agree there are some security issues, which is why Sxip has worked with others in the community on phishing-resistant technologies for OpenID such as Pape and Sxipper. Check them out and tell us what you think!
Vancouver Voted #1 Yet Again by the Economist
24 August, 2007 - 12:51pm
We really are the Best Place on Earth! Vancouver was chosen for the fifth straight year in a row as the most livable city on the planet by the Economist. Their annual survey assesses living conditions in more than 125 cities around the world based on the following categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and infrastructure. Vancouver was deemed the most attractive destination due to our low crime rate, little threat from instability or terrorism and a highly developed transport and communications infrastructure. Sxip is naturally headquartered here and we're hiring. Check out our careers offerings and come join us!
ID Theft Prevention & User-Centric Identity
21 August, 2007 - 1:36pm
Interested in ID theft prevention and management and how Identity 2.0 technologies will help address many of the issues plaguing the web today? Join Sxip at the IDSP Plenary meeting in Washington DC next month, our founder & CEO Dick Hardt is giving the keynote address. The IDSP is a coordinating body of the Better Business Bureau and American National Standards Institute who are working on various identity fraud-related problems. The September meeting will focus on the issuance, exchange and maintenance of identity data. Learn more and make sure to register by the September 10 deadline!
Identity 2.0 is a Picnic
16 August, 2007 - 1:21pm
Interested in learning more about Identity 2.0? Find out why we need these simple, secure, and open user-centric technologies to realize the full potential of all those great new and not so new Web 2.0 apps. Sxip's founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, will be giving a keynote at the Picnic conference this fall in Amsterdam on Identity 2.0: Who are we now, as well as on a panel with Marc Canter and other internet luminaries discussing Portable Social Networks.
Gartner: SaaS market to surpass $5 billion this year
15 August, 2007 - 10:52am
New research from Gartner predicts that the Software-as-a-Service market will increase 20% this year over last to $5.1 billion and that by 2011 it will more than double to $11.5 billion. The drivers they list for this growth over traditional software include, "Ease of use, rapid deployment, limited upfront investment in capital and staffing, plus a reduction in software management responsibility.” With multiple SaaS application usage however comes traditional enterprise IdM needs, such as securing user access, managing users, and of course web single sign-on. Our on-demand identity management solution, Sxip Access, addresses these issues and more for the majority of popular SaaS applications including Salesforce and Google Apps.
Gartner: Identity 2.0 On the Rise
13 August, 2007 - 3:50pm
Gartner's 2007 Hype Cycle Report on Identity & Access Management Technologies published earlier this summer positions user-centric, Identity 2.0 technologies such as OpenID, CardSpace and Higgins as "technology triggers" that are "on the rise", though two to five years away from mainstream adoption. They recommend that consumer facing organizations monitor the evolution of these "Personal Identity Frameworks".
Sxip: a hot Vancouver start-up
9 August, 2007 - 2:31pm
Two recent articles by Montreal Tech Watch and Tech Confidential name Vancouver as Canada's greatest startup city and suggest that Sxip is one of a handful of tech companies to watch. Victoria Revay, editor at NowPublic.com, states "Vancouver is currently the place to be for anyone wanting to be involved in a booming startup and tech scene." She cites a host of factors on why Vancouver rules, such as: gorgeous scenery, mild climate, great quality of life, investor confidence, proximity to Silicon Valley, unique educational programs, talent pool, thriving arts and culture, and Whistler and the 2010 Olympics. Find out for yourself why it's so awesome here and join Sxip. Check out our careers page for openings. (Monopoly prowess not required, but is an asset!)
The State of User-Centric Identity In Europe
3 August, 2007 - 10:30am
Missed us at the Catalyst conference in San Francisco? Sxip's Founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, is giving a new version of his State of User-Centric Identity talk at the Burton Group Conference this fall in Barcelona. Amidst all the hype surrounding user-centric identity, he'll separate fantasy from fiction and leave you with what's really happening in this emerging set of technologies. Hasta luego en España!
Defragging Identity
2 August, 2007 - 10:37am
Sxip's founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, will be giving a new Identity 2.0 keynote at the Defrag conference this fall. Similar to PC Forum, Defrag is about turning the loads of information on the web into layers of knowledge and accelerating your "aha" moment. Join the community of builders, implementers and evangelists working around the technologies we're all familiar with (wikis, blogs, search) and many new, developing technologies (context, relevance, next-level discovery) and view them all through a new prism. Hope to see you in Denver in November!
The Next Identity: The Hardt Way
30 July, 2007 - 11:10am
Our founder & CEO, Dick Hardt's Identity 2.0 keynote from the Next Web Conference last month in Amsterdam is now online. Double it's usual length at a whopping 800 slides in 30 minutes, he covers the spectrum of digital identity issues such as: user-centric identity vs federation; emerging user-centric technologies such as OpenID 2.0, CardSpace, and Sxipper; the IdM issues faced by the burgeoning software-as-a-service market; six identity predictions for the future of the web; and why Identity 2.0 will happen. Find out why and how Identity 2.0 will make the internet simple, safe and secure and watch the video for yourself.
OpenID Code Bounties Awarded: Congrats Drupal, Plone & DotNetNuke
26 July, 2007 - 10:57am
Congratulations to the open source projects Drupal, Plone and DotNetNuke for their integration of OpenID, a user-centric digital identity framework. Announced at this year's O'Reilly Open Source Conference, each project will receive $5000. The OpenID Code bounty program was introduced last year at OSCON with the goal of raising awareness and increasing adoption of OpenID. These three winning projects are the first of ten which will be awarded by the newly formed OpenID Foundation. Sxip Identity is proud to be a part of the Foundation's Board and looks forward to continuing our role in helping manage all of the legal and infrastructure details that come with a large open source project like OpenID. For more details about the bounty program and how you can participate, visit http://iwantmyopenid.org/bounty.
Mitigating Business Identity Theft: SaaS Anti-Phishing & Sxip Access
25 July, 2007 - 10:31am
Analyst James Van Dyke expressed concern in the Javelin Research blog last week about recent phishing emails where a popular software-as-a-service application was being impersonated. He worries about the ramifications of a company with such a huge database being the target of ID theft and recommends a "prevention, detection and resolution" model for battling criminals and keeping customers. Our on-demand identity management solution, Sxip Access, can assist with the prevention component of that battle. We provide enhanced phishing protection for SaaS apps through a number of methods including: two-factor authentication, CardSpace access support, and single sign-on with SAML tokens.
The Most Compelling Reason to Install Firefox as Your Primary Browser
19 July, 2007 - 10:56am
We've been continuing with Sxipper's improvements and greatly appreciate the extensive input from beta testers and their semantic mapping contributions to the community. Some of the comments we've recently received, Dave Kearns of Network World, "for me, it's the most compelling reason to install Firefox as your primary browser" and "I’d be severely impacted if it were no longer available to me. It’s really the best, if not the first, user-centric identity tool." Tod Maffin's first todbits.tv podcast (go to episode one, 18-28 minutes in) says that he likes Sxipper's password management and web form fill functionality, "Sxipper automatically fills that kind of stuff out for me, which is very clever indeed." Check out the latest release (including OpenID anti-phishing, disposable email addresses, and more) for yourself and tell us what you think!
How Companies Swiftly Deploy Apps
18 July, 2007 - 12:45pm
CIO Insight recently wrote an in-depth article on why businesses are turning to software-as-a-service citing "fast software implementation with reduced upfront investment and minimal IT staff resources". They examine a number of SaaS uses cases such as Optimus Solutions, who needed a new CRM system that was a short ramp to implementation and simple to use for employees. They selected Salesforce along with several integrated applications, including Sxip Access, for its authentication and ability to synchronize IDs and passwords from their corporate Active Directory. Optimus' satisfaction has lead them to look at "the SaaS market to see if there is an appropriate solution each time we open the books on a new business challenge".
Vancouver: the Next Outsourcing Hotspot?
12 July, 2007 - 2:57pm
eWEEK has just published an interesting article, Uh-O Canada: The Newest Nearshore Threat? on why U.S. IT companies, like Microsoft, are opening shops in Canada. They highlight Vancouver in particular, citing a host of factors on why the city is so desirable such as: it's beauty, #1 quality of life ranking, ease of immigration, and diversity of the population. We agree that this is the most awesome place on earth to live and work! Find out for yourself -- we're hiring developers -- check out our careers page for openings.