OpenPages takes on the least glamorous parts of identity managment

NETWORK WORLD Article: DAVE KEARNS ON SECURITY: IDENTITY MANAGEMENT notification 04/23/08 OpenPages takes on the least glamorous parts of identity managment By Dave Kearns Last issue I promised a look at a veteran company in the governance, risk and compliance sector that I'd been planning a closer look at for over a year. And today we're actually going to take a look at OpenPages, a company that's been around since 1996 and yet still might be considered an "overnight success."Read full story Dave Kearns is the editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management as well as a consultant to both vendors and users of IdM technologies. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Complete Guide to eDirectory." His other musings can be found at the Virtual Quill , an Internet publisher which provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by shopping . Comments to this Article can be shoppinged to Dave here . This Article is sponsored by Symlabs, Inc. Download Virtual Directory / LDAP Proxy! Symlabs releases even more powerful Symlabs Virtual Directory Server and Symlabs LDAP Proxy Version 4.0! They make joining disparate data from multiple repositories simple ... and with the best performance in the industry. Download and try the software for free! Better Control your Virtual Environment Learn how to minimize your company's exposure to risk by protecting your virtual machines from internal and external attacks in this whitepaper. Proactive configuration assessment and automated change detection tools will allow you to ensure the same level of stability is maintained within a virtualized environment as in traditional environments. Download this whitepaper now. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Online privacy: railing against the accepted I frequently use this column to rail against threats to the privacy of Internet users, both from government and the private sector. (For example, see last week's column). I just found a survey published late last year by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that reports that people are coming to support, or at last not object too strongly to, some types of spying. Mobile Browsers Aid Phishing Scams Are mobile devices to become the bastion of phishing identity theft attacks? That very well could be the case according to a paper by UC Davis', Yuan Niu, called iPhish: Phishing Vulnerabilities on Consumer Electronics. The researches believed that the restricted presentation of information in smaller mobile and game system browsers makes it much easier to fool users into visiting phishing sites. This was confirmed by creating a fake Bank of America site that fooled iPhone Safari browser test users. Identity theft is a hot topic of the new book, Zero Day Threat, by USAToday reporters Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz. Researchers tout 'functional encryption' that knows who's who, 04/21/2008 Researchers detail innovative cryptographic method they call "functional encryption" based on the concept that a complex mathematical system can produce an encrypted record that only people matching certain "attributes" will be able to decrypt. PayPal denies plan to block Safari, 04/21/2008 PayPal has denied claims it plans to lock Safari users out of its online payments service as it reinforces its protections against online credit fraud. Compliance platforms emerging, maturing Compliance has been one of the dominant themes in the post-Enron age of corporate IT. Many software providers tout their offerings as solutions for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and every other regulatory mandate, industry best-practices framework and corporate internal policy. Flood of compliance tools coming Four vendors this week plan to unveil products that do double duty: help companies monitor operational and system risks, and facilitate compliance with industry mandates such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. PCI standards body moves ahead on cert, 04/16/2008 PCI Security Standards Council releases list of certified payment applications under Payment Application Data Security Standard, while Council general manager Bub Russo describes upcoming standard efforts, and office-supply company Staples offers a glimpse into an innovative technique the company came up with to protect customer card information, which it calls "Data Aliasing." APRIL GIVEAWAYS Don't miss April's giveaways: Microsoft Subnet is giving away a Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 courtesy of New Horizons; and 15 copies of the book "System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed." 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