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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.
SaaS Under Attack: Phishing for Your Customers
28 November, 2007 - 11:45am
The rise in enterprise on-demand application deployments has become a new and attractive target for phishers. As recently covered by CNET, Washington Post, eWeek and many others; phishers are employing multi-phased attacks that acquire enterprise customer contact data in order to launch further sophisticated assaults that exploit the trusted relationship between the enterprise and their customers. Thus, if you're using popular software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for corporate email such as Google Apps, or for CRM such as Salesforce, you may be a target. Download our security bulletin (pdf) to gain a better understanding of the risks and the appropriateness of additional security measures.
SSO to SuccessFactors Now Possible with Sxip Access
26 October, 2007 - 11:32am
Sxip Access now provides single sign-on and centralized user management for SuccessFactors in addition to other popular software-as-a-service applications such as Google Apps and Salesforce. This past summer, Sxip enabled a major North American energy producer with over 6000 employees to have secure and easy authentication for their users to SuccessFactors with our Virtual Appliances. Sxip Access was chosen over Microsoft ADFS, CA SiteMinder and RSA Federated Identity Manager as the only solution able to deliver a simple and proven identity management product for on-demand applications. Read more in our new SuccessFactors case study.
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!
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!
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!
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!)
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.
Vote for Sxipper! Identity 2.0 App Nominated for CNET's Webware 100
23 May, 2007 - 2:48pm
Sxipper, our free internet identity manager currently in beta, has been named a finalist in the Webware 100 Awards for 2007 by the CNET Editors and Web 2.0 user community. For the Webware 100 Awards, 250 Finalists were selected by the editors from over 2,000 qualifying Web 2.0 services. The Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Voting is open to the public through June 11, where the top 25 finalists in each category will be listed. Please vote for *man's and woman's best internet friend*, Sxipper, in the Browser category.
Sun joins OpenID user-centric community
7 May, 2007 - 2:21pm
We're delighted to see Sun announce they intend to support OpenID. After being a proponent of old school federated identity technologies for so long, it's good for the user-centric community that another large player in the identity space has declared support for this emerging Identity 2.0 protocol. Earlier this spring Sxip announced we would collaborate with Microsoft and others in the community on interoperability between OpenID and Windows CardSpace to make the internet safer and easier to use. We hope all of our combined efforts further industry convergence to one simple identity protocol.
Sxip Chosen One of Canada's Top 25 Up & Coming IT Companies
26 April, 2007 - 8:53am
Sxip has been selected amongst this year's Top 25 Up and Comers by the Branham Group, who they believe could be the next who's who in Canadian technology. Their selection criteria was determined by the following: established after December 31, 2002, and show great promise within the IT industry based on creativity and innovation whether it be in a new technology area or optimizing existing technology in an innovative manner. See the full list in the current issue of Backbone Magazine.
Vote for Sxipper! Identity 2.0 solution nominated for Next Web Awards
18 April, 2007 - 2:20pm
Sxipper, our free digital identity manager, has been nominated for most promising service in the Beta & Stealth category of the Next Web Awards. Sxipper is a Firefox extension that manages passwords, fills forms, provides OpenIDs, and gets more accurate the more it's used. The public awards are for upcoming disruptive services, that will change the internet. Make your voice heard and vote for your favorite user-centric identity *retriever*, Sxipper...
Sxip Provides Essential SSO Solution To Salesforce for Cox Media
11 April, 2007 - 11:05am
Cox Media has deployed Sxip Access for single sign-on and centralized user management of their employees to Salesforce. Rolando Castellanos, National IT Manager for Cox Media, stated "Our users access all applications at Cox with the same login credentials. We therefore view Sxip Access as an essential solution in extending our single sign-on capabilities to Salesforce. Plus with nearly 1000 users in 20 markets, it's imperative for our Operations Group to have one place to manage IDs and passwords." Read more in our new case study.
Vancouver Ranked Best City in North America
2 April, 2007 - 4:53pm
Vancouver was voted the best city in North America and third best in the world for overall quality of life by UK-based, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, in their annual global survey. Mercer's study is based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 39 key quality of living determinants, including: political, social, economic and socio-cultural environments; schools and education; recreation; and natural environment. Find out for yourself why it's so awesome to live here! Sxip is hiring. Check out our careers page for more details...
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.
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.
Vancouver Named Best City in the Americas
1 November, 2006 - 11:19am
For a third consecutive year, Vancouver was chosen "Best City in the Americas" in the Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards. City ratings were based on ambience, friendliness, culture/sites, restaurants, lodging, and shopping. Find out for yourself why it's so awesome to live and work here. Sxip is conveniently located in downtown Vancouver and is hiring! Check out our careers page for openings.
Vancouver Again Voted Best City in Canada
29 August, 2006 - 11:27am
Travel and Leisure, the world's leading travel magazine, recently announced that Vancouver was voted best city in Canada for the second year in a row. Winners of the Annual World's Best Awards are selected by the magazine's readers. Cities were rated on the following criteria: sights, culture/arts, restaurants/food, people, shopping, and value. We wholeheartedly agree and are looking for others to join our team here! Check out our careers page for positions currently open.
Sxip joins consortium funding OpenID development
26 July, 2006 - 2:38am
Sxip has joined an alliance of IT companies that will be providing bounties of $5000 to encourage the integration of OpenID into leading open source projects. In addition to Sxip, the consortium includes claimID, Cordance, Four Kitchen Studios, International Webmaster Association, JanRain, NetMesh, ooTao, Opinity, VeriSign, ZoomR, and ZP3. We hope the Bounty Program will accelerate adoption of the user-centric, Identity 2.0, approach to digital identity on the web.
SXIP Protocol Renaming?
19 July, 2006 - 8:05am
Since our first release of the SXIP protocol in September 2004, we've received a ton of feedback on a number of issues, one of which we've yet to address -- that of the name itself. We've found there's been some confusion of SXIP with our company, Sxip Identity, and concerns over whether there was a clear seperation between the protocol and the company. Although we've tried to address this with open source licensing, we believe that with the Identity Open Space meeting tomorrow and Friday here in Vancouver, that now is an appropriate time to revisit the protocol name and would appreciate community involvement in the process. Accordingly, we'd like to receive input from the IOS attendees and others in the identity space. Looking forward to a great two days of discussions! If you can't attend, please feel free to give us your comments below...
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.
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!
Where Business is a Pleasure: Vancouver #1 Again
30 January, 2006 - 6:10am
Vancouver has been rated the number one city in the world for business travellers by The Economist. The criteria was based on "cost and comfort factors", which helped Vancouver top the list of 127 cities. Those factors include our climate; good, relatively inexpensive hotels; as well as proximity to recreation.
Vancouver Again Voted Best City in Canada
17 January, 2006 - 10:05am
For the third consecutive year Vancouver was chosen the best city in Canada to visit in the Travel Weekly Reader's Choice Awards for World's Best in Travel. Travel Weekly is the primary national trade publication for travel industry professionals.
Sxip Is Ready to Rocket
12 January, 2006 - 11:33am
Sxip Identity was recently selected as a "Ready to Rocket" company for 2006. The "Ready to Rocket 25" list names twenty-five private B.C. companies who are best positioned to capitalize on the information technology trends that will contribute to faster growth than the IT sector as a whole.
Vancouver Chosen A Global Fast City
19 December, 2005 - 9:35am
Fast Company recently published their list of Global Fast Cities and our hometown of Vancouver was selected! Fast cities are up-and-coming places which show the highest rates of creative class growth. The article suggests that talent is shifting to regions that offer dense concentrations of other talented people, tolerance of differences, and a great quality of life. These are the places that lure what Richard Florida, the Hirst Professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, calls the "creative class."
Sxip located in the "Best Cities in the Americas" -- Join Us!
1 November, 2005 - 7:26am
For the second year in a row, Vancouver was voted the Best City in the Americas by the Conde Nast 2005 Readers' Choice Awards. We couldn't agree more and are headquartered in the heart of this beautiful city. We've also recently opened an office in San Francisco, which was chosen Best City in the United States in the same Conde Nast poll (for the 13th year in a row!). The results are published in Conde Nast Traveler's November 2005 issue. We have positions available in both locations. For more info, check out our careers page and our annual top 10 list of reasons to work here!
Become a Sxipster: Top Ten Reasons to Join Sxip
28 October, 2005 - 11:02am
Sxip is hiring and we're looking for a few stars who work brilliantly, meet deadlines and live to innovate. We thought of some compelling reasons of why someone might want to join the company:
Vancouver Voted World's Most Liveable City -- Join Us!
4 October, 2005 - 6:13am
Vancouver was selected the world's best place to live in a survey published yesterday by the Economist Intelligent Unit. The EIU assesses living conditions in 127 cities around the world by looking at nearly 40 individual indicators grouped into five categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and infrastructure. Vancouver topped the list as most liveable city in the world. We couldn't agree more! Interested in living here and working with Sxip? Check out our careers page and submit your resume to
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Digital Identify Defined
29 September, 2005 - 8:50am
Our Identity 2.0 video of Dick's keynote at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference this summer is continuing to pique people's interest. ZDNet's Dan Faber wrote yesterday, "Must watch: I've seen Dick Hardt's presentation on the nature of digital identity evolve over the last several months, and the version available here really captures the complexities of participating in an online world and how identity is at the center of the Web experience."
Sxip Builds Critical Mass: Brain Gain from Across the Globe
16 August, 2005 - 8:21am
Sxip has acquired top talent from across North America and Europe to accommodate its Vancouver expansion and new office in San Francisco. In addition to new recruits for development, the senior management team welcomes Chuck Mortimore, Vice President of Product Architecture and Alfie Karmal, Vice President of Sales. Their immediate focus will be on further development, sales and marketing of Sxip Access, the only identity management solution designed specifically for on-demand applications.
Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Work at Sxip
19 November, 2004 - 11:47am
We're hiring for quite a few positions. The most recent one posted is for a Systems Support Engineer, and we thought of some compelling reasons of why someone might want to join the company.
Top 10 reasons why you should join Sxip:
1. no stupid politics, no idiots, and a place where your opinions matter
2. waterfront office with a rooftop deck
3. we know that shell and Perl have nothing to do with the ocean
4. being a member of the tinfoil hat brigade isn't seen as paranoid
5. we're Canadian, eh!
6. working with open source is fun
7. Vancouver based - need we say more?
8. you can call the CEO a "Dick"
9. weekly sci fi movie nights
10. Have your interview at 230 KPH (down a cobblestone street)
Check out our careers page for a complete listing of available openings.
Web Developer Seeking a New Home?
9 November, 2004 - 11:49am
Sxip might be the right place for you. Do you have a flair for design and technology? Want to work with a bright team of people who are setting new standards for personal digital identity?
We're a well-funded tech company located on the harbor front in beautiful downtown Vancouver, Canada. We're looking for an exceptional Lead Web Developer who has the right skills to take our current web presence to the next level in function, usability, and design. We have high standards for technical expertise as we work with a wide variety of Open Source projects.
A good candidate will enjoy the web, be current with the latest trends and technologies (RSS, blogs, wikis), and be comfortable taking responsibility in a great team. Strong communication skills both written and oral with the ability to help drive the company's message are necessary.
Specific areas of technical skill:
- Ability to code valid (standards compliant) CSS and XHTML
- Understanding of Drupal, MovableType, and Plone
- Comprehensive knowledge of website security including XSS
Preferred qualities:
- Programming experience in PHP, Perl, Python, Java, and JavaScript
- Active participant in the open source community
- Experience as a webmaster
If you have the personality and enthusiasm to work for a fast-paced Internet startup please apply at 
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Want a career on the cutting edge of digital identity?
4 November, 2004 - 11:51am
We're hiring .NET and Active Directory developers!
Interested in social networking and online communities? We are too!
Sxip is the first distributed public identity network. We're located on Canada's west coast in the heart of beautiful downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, and are looking to add to our team.
We're seeking exceptional .NET developers with a proven track record implementing large scale, mission critical web solutions through all phases of the lifecycle. Minimum three years development experience required.
In addition we're seeking a developer with proven expertise designing and implementing solutions centered around Active Directory.
If you're interested in Sxip Networks and think you've got what it takes to work in the forefront of new technology, contact .
For more information visit our careers page.
Sxip looking for Mac and Linux software developers
20 October, 2004 - 11:55am
Are you looking to join an innovative company on the cutting edge of personal digital identity? Interested in social networking and online communities? Love working with open source? So do we!
Sxip Networks, the first distributed personal digital identity network, is a well-funded startup located on Canada's west coast in the heart of beautiful downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
Successful candidates will be exceptional developers with a proven track record implementing large scale, mission critical web solutions through all phases of the lifecycle.
Experience contributing to or participating in Open Source development projects is a definite asset. Minimum three years development experience required. Details on the specific job responsibilities and experience are posted on our careers page.
If you think you've got what it takes to work in the forefront of new technology please contact 
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