Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Creating a reputation system that's easy to use, safe and secure Last issue, in talking about Ethoca, I mentioned that their fraud-fighting scheme might be the basis for constructing the type of system we've been talking about for years without ever getting close to realizing a working system. If you read the last issue, you can probably guess that I'm talking about a reputation system. Fraud fighting service Next month at the European Identity Conference I'll be talking about Risk Management ("Risk Management for Better Health, Fiscal and Physical"). In doing some research for that keynote, I came across a company which hosts what they call a "fraud fighting" service, but which comes under the risk management heading and just might be the pre-cursor to a type of service we've only thought of as "pie in the sky" until now. Why reputation works as an identity management element Last issue I began to talk about reputation as a component of an identity system. If you missed that issue, you should visit the Web site for Sxore, to learn more about Sxip's implementation of a reputation-based system. Today, I want to look at the implications of a reputation-based identity system. Microsoft’s cloud identity platform on track Microsoft's identity cloud platform code-named Geneva which will complement Microsoft’s Azure cloud OS, will grab a spotlight at next month’s annual TechEd conference. Human ear could be next biometric system British scientists are investigating the viability of a new biometric technique that would make use of the human ear as a way for a third party to identify the person they are speaking to. April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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