Product Watch: New Microsoft Identity Technology Aims To Protect Online Privacy – DarkReading. All the way back from March.  Can’t believe I missed this for so long.

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Consumers Accept Device Fingerprinting, Study Finds — InformationWeek. Much as I’d like to say that consumers aren’t so much against “working for” strong authentication as they are at recognizing that KBA isn’t actually providing any security, at least the results are the same.  KBA is being rejected.  KBA doesn’t protect against even phishing and is [...]

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I’ve taken a lot of questions lately on the topic of KBA.  KBA (Knowledge Based Authentication) is a general term that covers several types of scenarios where users are asked a set of questions to verify their identity for situations where there isn’t another credential available to authenticate the user.  There are various cases where this [...]

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TriCipher, Persistent Systems unveil secure single sign-on to Oracle Siebel CRM – Middleware : News.

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http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2432093/

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218200003 Interesting comparison and contrasting of offerings, though oddly enough, Ping seems to be fairly well behind the other two on the surface of it.

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If you are still in the misguided camp of those thinking that OTPs (One Time Password) are the end-all be-all of online security then you may find this information interesting.  Of course this particular instance is not the first case of OTPs being successfully attacked, Citibank and Nordea Bank both had reasonably well covered attacks [...]

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Facebook First Big Site To Really Embrace OpenID Finally an announcement in the OpenID world about an RP! Everyone wants to rule the world as IPs, but no one (that matters) wants to reciprocate. Guess I can’t say that anymore as FB certainly matters (for now). How to Spot a Fake Census Worker Remember, if [...]

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Funny that discussions around identity systems always come back to being analogous to payment systems such as this post wishing OpenID to be the next Visa.  Similar to my thoughts on looking for Identity’s version of PayPal, though I don’t think OpenID as an organization has any hope in Hades of becoming the Visa of [...]

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I ran across this initial post OpenID, Information Cards, and Passwords in my newsreader which then led me to the original article “Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense” as well as a bunch of other responses to the Goodbye article by Kim Cameron, Axel Nennker and Dave Kearns. Great posts and all of this is marvelous commentary on [...]

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