Posts with keyword: didw06

12 entries

Using Reputation to Combat Online Fraud

Mon Sep 18 15:28:00 2006

Last week at DIDW, I had the opportunity to sit down with Iovation CTO Dan Lulich. I'd met Dan at the Berkman ID mashup in June, but didn't really know what Iovation did. I found that we had much to talk about: Iovation does reputation. Iovation's reputation services aren't for people--they're for devices. Being able to link devices to undesirable activities and also to the accounts they log into is a great way to combat fraud in online gaming, eCommerce, and other places where money is at stake. Denise Howell just interviewed Iovation's CEO Greg Pierson on IT Conversations.
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Wrapping Up DIDW

Wed Sep 13 16:17:00 2006

One of the things that distinguishes a great conference from a good one for me is that I not only learn new things, but I'm inspired with new ideas. Occasionally I come away from a conference with lots of new ideas, having met lots of new, interesting people, and having deepened friendships with people I already knew. That happened at DIDW this year and that's what will keep me coming back. Phil and Eric hit the nail on the head this year. I'm headed out to the airport, sorry I'll miss Doc's closing keynote, but glad I came.
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whobar

Wed Sep 13 16:11:00 2006

SXIP seems to ta always come up with clever names for things. The entry this year is whobar, SXIP's software or relying parties that allows them to accept CardSpace cards, i-names, or OpenID itentifiers from users.
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Kaliya Wins DIDW Award

Wed Sep 13 15:45:00 2006

Kaliya Hamlin won a DIDW award for "behind the scenes" work on the Internet Identity Workshop and th Identity Gang. It was well deserved. Kaliya is a motive force in this area and someone who makes the community better. Over and above that, she's a genuinely nice person and someone who's a pleasure to work with. Congratulations Kaliya!
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Pretexting

Wed Sep 13 15:20:00 2006

The word for the week is pretexting.
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Passive Federation

Wed Sep 13 12:36:00 2006

Patrick Harding, CTO at Ping, is speaking with Kim Cameron on using CardSpace in the enterprise. Patrick discusses how traditional federation allowed user data to flow between enterprise systems without the user's consent. Rather than refer to the case where the user is structurally involved as "user-centric" however, he introduces the term "active federation," calling the traditional federation scenario "passive."
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Jamie Lewis Keynote: The Evolving IdM Landscape

Wed Sep 13 10:46:00 2006

Jamie Lewis, CEO of Burton Group(click to enlarge) Another highlight of DIDW each year is Jamie Lewis' keynote. Jamie is the CEO of the Burton Group (and, incidentally, wrote the forward to my book on Digital Identity). He believes that the market has moved beyond the products and suites stage to the services stage. Good news for the people I've met at the conference this year who are hoping to build service-based businesses. Stronger authentication is not going to solve most of the problems we see in the identity space. User IDs and passwords are still around and replacing them
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Digital Identity in BC Government

Tue Sep 12 16:20:00 2006

Dave Nikolesjsin, CIO, Prov. of British Columbia(click to enlarge) Dave Nikolesjsin is the CIO for the Prov. of British Columbia. No less an authority on identity than Dick Hardt has told me that I really had to see what they were doing in identity. So, when I saw that Dave as speaking at DIDW, I knew that was one session I had to attend. Serendipitously, I sat with Dave at breakfast and got a chance to get acquainted. The title of Dave's talk is "Citizen-Centric Identity." He shows a picture with a citizen, in this case a little girl from
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Location and Identity: A Powerful Team

Tue Sep 12 16:16:00 2006

Something Phil Becker said in his annual state of digital identity talk at DIDW this morning made me think about location and some of the things that go along with identity and mobile devices. I wrote those up and posted them at Between the Lines.
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Vitamins, Pain-killers, and Viagra

Mon Sep 11 17:57:00 2006

Dick Hardt(click to enlarge) Dick Hardt intro'd a panel on identity at big sites (meaning eBay, Yahoo!, Google, MSN, and so on). He used a great analogy of vitamins, pain-killers, and Viagra. We've been selling ID Management as vitamins. Everyone knows that they're good for you, but there's no urgency. With pain-killers, there's urgency. Viagra, on the other hand lets people do things they couldn't do before. User-centric identity is a pain-killer for users, but only a vitamin for big sites. How do you turn user centric identity into Viagra? He uses eBay as an example. By using a user-centric,
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Jim Harper on Identity

Mon Sep 11 17:26:00 2006

Jim Harper is the author of Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood. Jim is an analyst at the Cato Institute, a non-profit thinktank with Libertarian leanings. Phil Becker introduced him by saying his book was a great introduction to the theory of identification. He uses the discussion of a national ID card to launch into a discussion of identification and it's theory. There are serious challenges in identification and policy makers will do a better job if we do a better job of articulating what identification is, how it works, and why it fails. Surveillance is easier
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DIDW Opener

Mon Sep 11 16:56:00 2006

Phil Becker and Rob Clyde(click to enlarge) Our IOS event ended at 3pm. We had 5 sessions--too short, really, to get into the spirit of the event, but there were about 80 people there and lots of good discussion. We'll be doing a 3 day IIW in December. You can register now. Phil Becker started DIDW with an interview of Symantec CTO Rob Clyde. I've been critical of DIDW keynotes before, so I have to give them credit on this one. Phil did a great job of guiding the interview and keeping it from being a marketing speech. One of
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