A lot to be thankful for in identity management

NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile A lot to be thankful for in identity management By Dave Kearns Happy Thanksgiving to all of my U.S. readers, and there is a lot to be thankful for this year both for you, the consumers of identity applications and services as well as for the vendors of that software. The biggest vendors kept getting bigger this year âÂ?Â? both through acquisition as well as by creating new services. At the same time, though, new vendors either were starting up or moving into the identity space for the first time. Just in the past couple of weeks, the number of identity-related announcements came along at a rapid pace. Read full story 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.  SPONSORED BY COURION CORPORATION White Paper: Results Driven Provisioning Download the latest white paper from Courion, the provisioning and access compliance experts, to learn best practices for developing a user provisioning and access management strategy, evaluate key considerations when selecting an automated provisioning solution, and Courion's results-oriented approach to automated user provisioning. 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