OpenID Momentum

15 February, 2008 - 3:07pm

Following last week's exciting announcement of numerous tech heavyweights joining the OpenID Foundation, it's great to see the new board move so quickly with their first meeting this week (you can follow their activities on the mailing lists). New to the board are: Google's DeWitt Clinton, IBM's Tony Nadalin, Microsoft's Mike Jones, VeriSign's Gary Krall, and Raj Mata with Yahoo!. Sxip's founder and CEO, Dick Hardt is a community member of the board and is the treasurer as well as the co-chair of the marketing committee. With over 10,000 websites currently supporting OpenID and approximately 350 million OpenID log-ins, we look forward to seeing OpenID momentum build even faster with help from the new board members!

Identity 2.0 & Controlling Your Digital Representation

13 February, 2008 - 3:15pm

Interested in a forum for presenting and discussing state of the art thinking, research and practice around managing identity in the 21st Century? Hear Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt at the Managing Identity in New Zealand Conference this spring. He and other internet luminaries will discuss the development and future directions of identity management (IdM), and its wider implications for users (with a particular focus on new digitized forms of IdM). Do you believe the future of IdM will be establishing user-centric IdM? Then join us in Wellington and contribute to the evolution of the Identity 2.0 discussion...

You are a directory entry? Why Identity 2.0 matters to MySQL

12 February, 2008 - 12:30pm

Are you just a directory entry? Much of the data in a database is about people, however with the lack of an identity system for the Web, it is very difficult for people to prove something about themselves online and hard for them to easily move their identity data. In this new version of Sxip CEO Dick Hardt's Who is the Dick on My Site? keynote, he will provide a background on Identity 2.0, discuss current roadblocks and future opportunities, and explore the potential impacts these will have on databases. Hope to see you at the MySQL conference in Santa Clara in April!

OpenID Gains Major Corporate Backing

7 February, 2008 - 2:53pm

It's great to see Identity 2.0 technologies like OpenID gain yet more traction with today's announcement by Microsoft, Google, IBM, Yahoo!, and VeriSign joining the board of the OpenID Foundation. The Foundation was formed last year by seven community members (including Sxip) with the goal of helping support and promote the technology developed by the OpenID community.

Cuesta College SSO to Gmail with Sxip

30 January, 2008 - 12:41pm

Cuesta College, a community college in the heart of California's scenic central coast, has solved their provisioning and single sign-on problem for Google Apps with Sxip Access. Janice House, Cuesta's Director of Computer Services stated, "we contacted some other identity management vendors, but Sxip was the only company that offered a simple solution for automation and SSO to Gmail, something we need for the constant overturn of 27,000 student accounts." Read more on Sxip Access' SSO, mobile support, and automated access control in the new Cuesta College Case Study.

Over half of North American Businesses to Use SaaS in 2008

25 January, 2008 - 4:13pm

Will this year be the tipping point for SaaS usage? New research from many analysts predict it. Saugatuck Technology states that by year end 55% of North American businesses will have deployed at least one Software-as-a-Service application. Similarly, by 2011 Gartner predicts SaaS will grow at double the rate of the total enterprise application market. And Forrester notes that the poster-child for SaaS, salesforce.com, is having a disruptive effect on the entire CRM market, suggesting that SaaS will comprise 25% of all new business software by 2011. With this growth however comes significant management and security challenges.

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OpenID 2.0 Triples Adoption With Yahoo Support

17 January, 2008 - 5:47pm

Identity 2.0 got another boost today with Yahoo's announcement of support for OpenID 2.0. As one of the co-authors of the new OpenID 2.0 spec, we're delighted to see major internet portals like Yahoo with their 250 million user IDs, stand behind this emerging user-centric protocol. (For a great overview of OpenID 2.0's new capabilities see last month's ZDNet article, OpenID 2.0 Specification Released).

Identity breaches now over 200 million: losses doubled last year

9 January, 2008 - 4:44pm

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reports that identity data breaches as of January 5 have now reached over 215,000,000, more than double the amount reported as of January 5, 2007 of 100,000,000. Based on 2007 trends, it may well get worse. According to the Identity Theft Assistance Center, a non-profit coalition of major financial institutions, this year will bring more challenges for business and law enforcement with data security breaches growing in importance as a business issue. This is precisely why we need Identity 2.0, user-centric technologies that provide for greater privacy online.

Phishing for a decade: From Zero to $3 billion in 12 years

3 January, 2008 - 1:16pm

On this, the 12th anniversary of the first phishing attack it is dismaying to see phishing increasing not only in number to affecting in the US alone 3.6 million people at a cost of $3.2 billion, but also in new consumer and enterprise targets such as facebook and SaaS apps. This is precisely why we need Identity 2.0, with greater privacy and control for users online. Hopefully 2008 will see a reversal of this scary security trend, with the mainstream deployment of secure user-centric technologies such as Information Cards from identity selectors like Microsoft’s Windows CardSpace and Novell’s DigitalMe.

Trust 2.0: A Safe & Accountable Internet?

2 January, 2008 - 5:02pm

Identity, trustworthiness, a persistent reputation and accountability -- is it possible to have an online world that is safe? Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt will discuss this in a new version of his infamously rapid fire keynote on "Trust 2.0" at the Second European Identity Conference. The IdM conference by Kuppinger Cole provides an unbiased source of new insights and ideas on a broad scale from business-oriented briefings to hands-on workshop sessions. Hope to see you in Munich in April!