NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
07/25/05
Today's focus: What's IBM doing in the realm of identity?
Dear security.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Talking identity with IBM at Catalyst 2005
* Links related to Identity Management
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Today's focus: What's IBM doing in the realm of identity?
By Dave Kearns
I'm going to spend the next few newsletters going over the
conversations I had with the many vendors that attended the
recent Catalyst conference. But before I get to that, a note
about something I said last month.
In the June 20 newsletter,
<http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2005/0620id1.html>,
I talked about the Converge conference for users of Courion's
software and ended by saying that I would let you know what I
discovered at the show. A number of you have written - and
almost everyone at Courion has - to ask what happened to the
additional coverage. Truth is, I did write about it, but wound
up publishing it in the Wired Windows column in Network World
<http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/062705kearns.html>,
rather than in the newsletter. I apologize for not noting that
sooner.
Another thing I had promised to do (at least, promised to IBM
Identity Media Relations Wizard, Libra White) was to talk about
the new Tivoli Federated Identity Manager. I had talked to the
IBM identity gurus (Venkat Raghavan and Joe Anthony) at the
Digital ID World show in May and somehow never got around to
writing about our meeting. I did catch up with the two gurus
again at Catalyst where we talked about federation and about Web
services.
Tivoli Federated Identity Manager supports role-based access
control (RBAC) and supports most identity protocols (Liberty,
Shiboleth, SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Security and WS-Trust). This
is a long awaited offspring of the IBM acquisitions of Access360
and MetaMerge, and should go a long way towards helping
enterprises to:
* Simplify integration between those companies and their
partners' Web sites, including simplified session management.
* Improve business compliance by helping to reduce security
exposure.
* Improve end-user experience through single sign-on.
* Expand business reach of service providers creating
revenue-generating opportunities.
* Simplify administration of security in cross-enterprise
business processes by delivering "security as services."
* Deliver policy-based integrated security management for SOA
Web services.
It's a well-designed, well-implemented addition to both the
Tivoli line of identity products as well as to the burgeoning
list of federation servers (Ping ID, Symlabs, MaXware, Oracle
and the upcoming Windows 2003 Server R2).
At Catalyst, Raghavan, Anthony and I talked about the
announcement jointly made by IBM and Microsoft that more of the
Web Services Initiative (the so-called WS-* specifications)
would be turned over to the neutral standards body, OASIS
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=ws> for
stewardship. WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and
WS-SecurityPolicy will all be given over to OASIS Technical
Committees for review and approval as well as for ongoing
maintenance.
This is a small, but significant, step towards getting identity
exchange based on WS-* actually implemented. For some reason,
WS-Federation (which has been finished for over a year) has yet
to be turned over to OASIS. Anthony promised this would happen
"soon," but gave no indication of when - or why it was taking so
long.
Still, the significance here goes beyond the two announcements
as IBM positions itself as the bridge between the Microsoft camp
(WS-*) and the rest of the world (Liberty Alliance).
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To contact: Dave Kearns
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.
Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these
respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.
Kearns 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 e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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