| 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. First, though, a correction. How a universal directory might work Provisioning across organizational boundaries using either traditional technologies or those associated with federation has been our subject the past few issues. In the last newsletter, the subject of a universal directory was mentioned. Today let's see how that might work. 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. Creating an identity management plan is like a game of Monopoly I was talking with Toby Weiss, from CA last week. He’s senior vice president of eTrust security management, the man responsible for the various identity management offerings from what is, arguably, the company longest in the field - at least if you trace their products lineage. We’d last spoken about 18 months ago, right after CA had acquired Netegrity. At the time, I worried that either CA’s traditional enterprise clients or Netegrity’s SMB focused clients might feel short-changed by the merger. Weiss believed that CA could successfully merge the technologies while keeping existing customers of both companies happy. As I said then, “Time will tell.” And it has. 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. April giveaways galore
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