NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
09/21/05
Today's focus: Novell should return to its identity management
roots
Dear security.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Why identity management could help put Novell way higher on
the map
* Links related to Identity Management
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Today's focus: Novell should return to its identity management
roots
By Dave Kearns
Novell has gotten a lot of negative publicity lately, with
shareholders and analysts suggesting that wholesale product and
division divestures as well as major management changes were
needed. The timing of this publicity is particularly bad for the
Waltham, Mass., operating system company as it made some major
announcements at its recent BrainShare Europe conference that
portend a re-emergence as a leader in the identity management
space.
The company has announced a new version of Novell Identity
Manager, now in beta-test mode, that includes a visual designer
for advanced workflow and an enhanced self-service application
to help customers reduce the costs of managing their
provisioning processes. These features should significantly
reduce the time and effort needed to configure complex
provisioning processes that can provide instant access to
company resources.
Novell also announced Novell Access Manager, also in beta
testing, which implements the Liberty Alliance and Security
Assertion Markup Language specifications, enabling business
partners to seamlessly and securely share user credentials.
Rather than simply sharing identity information between
partners, Access Manager also provisions a new account when one
does not already exist across partner Web sites, combining
federation with provisioning. Both products are scheduled to be
released later this year.
These are not trivial enhancements or additions but are products
that should once more put Novell into the forefront of the
identity management arena - an arena that Novell essentially
created when it introduced eDirectory (under the name NetWare
Directory Services, and later Novell Directory Services) a dozen
years ago.
I've outlined in this week's Network World NetWare Tips
newsletter the criticisms that Blum Capital Partners and Credit
Suisse First Boston have leveled against Novell. Among the
suggestions are that the company divest Cellerant and Cambridge
Technology Partners, both consulting operations. I'd agree with
that only with the proviso that the old Novell Consulting
organization (which emphasized identity management) be revived
and revitalized. The SuSE Linux business shows no signs of ever
being a profit powerhouse, but the identity management products
could provide the core of a very profitable business.
Maybe, as both Blum and Credit Suisse suggested, new management
is needed - perhaps dumping CEO Jack Messman and returning Chris
Stone, former Novell vice-chairman. Stone, at least, understood
that identity management was a major growth opportunity for the
company.
Check out both Novell Identity Manager and Novell Access Manager
when they're released and see if you don't agree that Novell is
back on the path to identity management leadership.
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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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This newsletter is sponsored by HP
FROM THE NETWORK CORE TO THE NETWORK EDGE
Traffic management becomes critical as your network
infrastructure expands to support different types of traffic and
users. Most traffic management solutions have serious
limitations: too expensive, difficult to use, and overly taxing
on bandwidth. However ProCurve Networking by HP addresses these
requirements, overcomes the limitations of other solutions, and
gives you valuable insight into LAN performance. Click here to
download HP's Traffic Management Whitepaper
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=115440
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