 Security: Identity ManagementThis newsletter is sponsored by The Dot Net FactoryNetwork World's Security: Identity Management Newsletter, 10/01/07Identity shows galoreBy Dave KearnsAnother Digital ID World has come and gone (this was the sixth annual event) and while much was familiar there was a different feel to the event. It was as if you were visiting old friends but in their new house. The furniture was recognizable, but the arrangement was quite different. It was last year that Digital ID World impresario Phil Becker decided that the logistics of show management were getting to be just too much for him. Or, more likely, for his delightful wife Kathie. So he made a deal with IDG. <disclaimer>Network World is part of the IDG family.</disclaimer> IDG does put on a lot of shows, so it’s understandable that there would be some “economies of scale” making them at least similar if not identical. There were some new and different vendors, some new features (meals within the trade show area) some missing features (the pre-show reception) and some different features (electronic surveys for the sessions). The one thing that didn’t change, though, was the content. That was still firmly controlled by Phil and his sidekick, Eric Norlin. Lots of real world experience presented to an enthusiastic audience with plenty of interaction. The speaker’s platform isn’t dominated by vendors or "talking heads," but by people on the front lines of the identity battles. May it always be that way.
In talking with people at the show, the thought that there are so many venues for identity these days came up. Digital ID World, of course. Catalyst and the RSA Conference (both the U.S. and European events) and now, OracleWorld. Even LinuxWorld is beginning to have an identity track. There’s the Gartner ID summit and the European Identity Conference. There’s also the smaller, more targeted, shows such as NetPro’s Directory Experts Conference, the Marcus Evans events in the Asia-Pacific region as well as other regional events – or industry-specific events – throughout the U.S., the U.K., Europe and Asia. Finally, there are the “user group” style events – Courion’s has grown into a mini-trade show. I know I have trouble deciding which shows I’ll go to, what do you do? Unless you’re a vendor it’s likely you don’t have the travel budget to hit them all. So which shows do you try to get to, which do you wish you could get to and (for bonus credit) which do you avoid? Drop me a note at the address below and I’ll tabulate the results. Probably the biggest news out of Digital ID World this year was the announcement by Orange, the mobile carrier arm of France Telecom, to adopt the OpenID registration/identification standard for its 40 million-plus subscribers. This is the first move by a mobile carrier into the OpenID space and simply reflects an undercurrent to the conversations at the show last week – mobile identity is the Next Big Thing. There’s still a lot of jockeying for position and a search for the “killer app” for mobile identity (the consensus I heard, though, was more along the lines of a “killer service”) but the mobile space is quite likely the next frontier, one we’ll explore in more depth before the year is out. Upcoming events from the IdM Journal calendar: Four interesting webinars are scheduled next week; at least one should be interesting to each of you – * Oct. 9: A More Effective Approach to Securing Sensitive Enterprise Data
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| Contact the author: 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 e-mail. Comments to this newsletter can be e-mailed to Dave here. This newsletter is sponsored by The Dot Net FactoryARCHIVEArchive of the Security: Identity Management Newsletter. BONUS FEATUREIT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICESTo subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: security.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007 |
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