| Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. The other federation technology While we've seen, over the past few issues, that federated provisioning still has a long way to go there's another technology, an older technology, which might bear another look. The promise of provisioning Way back in the dark ages, 10 whole years ago, I first wrote about provisioning as the "killer app" for Identity Management. Actually, I called it the killer app for directory services, since the identity management tag hadn't yet been promulgated. In a piece I wrote for Novell's Web site (now, sadly, no longer available), I touted Business Layer's eProvision Employee application and talked about what was to come. Sometimes prognosticators are wrong. Enterprise Provisioning vs. Federated Provisioning When last we spoke I left you thinking about deprovisioning both your people from apps you don't control or your apps from people you don't control. It's a big issue with software-as-a-service (SaaS) and federated provisioning. It was the Burton Group's Ian Glazer who said: "...there should be no reason why deprovsioning from an application like Salesforce.com is any harder than deprovisioning from LDAP." And, in truth, maybe it isn't. Provisioning and federation Federated provisioning is the topic, and the raging dispute about its pros and cons is today's subject. It started with the comment by Daniel Wakeman (CIO, Educational Testing Service), who said "It's a 'huge shortcoming' that SaaS [Software-as-a-Service] vendors do not embrace 'federated identity management' standards allowing centralized identification and validation of users via a single sign-on process..." Identity Governance Framework sprints to the finish line Setting a pace that the IETF and other slow-moving standards bodies could envy, the Liberty Alliance announced last week the completion of market requirements document (MRD) for the Identity Governance Framework (IGF). ... Radiant Logic, SailPoint give their products an 'identity change' Before completely leaving the events of the recent Digital ID World show there were a couple of announcements that I wanted to point out since they concerned identity and identity products on multiple levels. Two old friends of this newsletter, Radiant Logic and SailPoint, announced upgrades to their flagship products. They also announced what could be called an "identity change" for the products. Buzzblog: Here's how to keep the government from spying on you The Electronic Frontier Foundation yesterday launched its "Surveillance Self-Defense" site, which is designed to provide Americans with practical advice on how to keep their government from snooping into their private communications and stored computer data. 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. | 
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