Agito working on solving the identity problem in the mobile field

Security: Identity Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Agito works on solving the identity problem in the mobile field By Dave Kearns We spend a great deal of time in this newsletter discussing identity in the enterprise as well as the user-centric identity that's used for personal Web-based access. Sometimes the two even overlap, as they did in the last issue. But there's another area which - while it can involve both the enterprise as well as the individual user - is, nevertheless, a completely different platform and paradigm. That's the identity associated with the mobile networking arena. I met last week with a start-up that's addressing identity in that space, something that's been overlooked by the major players for far too long. 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. 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