What are HP's moves in the identity space?

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
06/27/05
Today's focus: What are HP's moves in the identity space?

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Today's focus: What are HP's moves in the identity space?

By Dave Kearns

There has been a lot of movement on the identity management
product front in the past month or so, especially from some
really big players. This week we'll take a look at three of the
players and their announcements to see what the trends are.

HP made two, if not really big, then certainly "good sized,"
announcements in the past month or so. In May HP rolled out NIS
- the "National Identity System."

<aside> Didn't anyone at HP remember that NIS also stands for
"Network Information Service," the newer name for Sun's "yellow
pages" service which is still used on Solaris and in Linux? Or
were all the other acronyms taken? </aside>

HP's NIS is intended for government use. It will, according to
HP, "enable modern national identification systems to allow
citizens to access e-government services and conduct secure
transactions." For example, the system is designed to fully
support the use of the soon-to-be-required biometric passports
as well as all aspects of the US-VISIT (U.S. Visitor and
Immigration Status Indication Technology) program of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.

Built in conjunction with Microsoft, and relying on Microsoft
operating systems, platforms and services, NIS appeals to large
government installations by supporting:
* Online and offline enrollment of demographic and biometric
data through live capture.
* Local request as well as regional/central verification and
registration.
* Multi-tier architecture.
* Secure management of the document lifecycle.
* Biometric and personalization subsystem integration.
* Online and offline identity verification.
* Fault tolerance and disaster recovery through design.

While HP seems to be ahead of the pack in supporting identity
management in a national security environment, its other release
definitely smacks of playing catch-up. It was just last week
that the company announced the release of the HP Compliance
Suite for Financial Institutions. Most other vendors' compliance
tools were released 9 to 12 months ago.

Still, this is a highly targeted release, unlike most other
all-purpose compliance suites. This one is specifically designed
to interoperate with HP's other financial services tools (such
as HP Open Bank and HP Open Payments) and implements compliance
with those regulations covering that industry. For example, the
suite doesn't need to know about the Food and Drug
Administration's Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR
Part 11) since the financial sector isn't involved with
producing food or drugs.

If you're in the financial services industry, or have clients
that are, you should explore HP's integrated products (
<http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/75794-0-0-0-121.html>
) including the new compliance suite.

That's just one company's announcements, though, come back next
time to learn what Sun's Sara Gates and BMC's Somesh Singh have
been up to. (And no, that's NOT what I mean!)

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

HP news release about HP National Identity System
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2005/050527a.html

BMC ups its standing in identity mgmt.
Network World, 06/27/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv2821
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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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