| DeVault Helps Protect Against Identity Theft If you need to protect personal and sensitive documents from prying eyes, you'll find deVault 2009 an excellent, free solution. It uses Blowfish 256-bit encryption to keep your documents private, and offers plenty of features for encrypting, decrypting, and managing your documents. Identity thieves beat Obama to stimulus package punch Although the U.S. government's economic stimulus package hasn't even gotten out of Congress, scammers aren't waiting; they've launched multiple campaigns that tempt users into revealing personal information, a security researcher warned Thursday. Is a pseudonym the same as a persona? We were recently having one of our interminable discussions on the Identity Gang mailing list (this was the privacy vs. anonymity discussion which dates back, oh, dozens of years) when Oracle's Nishant Kaushik - identity architect at Oracle and author of the Talking Identity blog - raised an interesting question: "Isn't a pseudonym the same as a persona [as defined in the identity management world, by my understanding]?" Well, there's nothing I like better than chewing over the meaning of words - so I did. Different facets of a single identity I was contemplating the Christmas season and what it means to those of a religious bent when it occurred to me that the idea of "persona" - different facets of a single identity - is thousands of years older than our digital world. Learn how Web sites collect private info on you (and your kids) In honor of Data Privacy Day, Cisco launched a Website, whitepaper and Facebook page which teaches consumers the hows and whys of Website data collection, reports blogger Jamey Heary. Do more with less...staff Speaking of Quest, as I was in the last issue, my friend Quest Senior Director, Product Management Jackson Shaw recently blogged about his predictions for 2009. One, in particular, resonated with me: "Do more with less (employees, consultants, temporary staff)." AccessStream releases open source identity access management package As the new year came in, a new project was revealed to the public: an open source identity access management package from AccessStream. The package was released as a Beta 1 version but AccessStream said it should be treated as alpha code. A second release is imminent, though, so maybe it's time you took a look. Who goes there? Identity management is all about who you are and what you should be allowed to do. This Product Guide describes the technology and how it works. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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