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Not much has changed on the directory front

Ten years ago this month directories were all the rage in this newsletter. Well, it was called the Directory Services newsletter. I introduced many of my readers to IBM's directory offering, then called "SecureWay" but now known simply as IBM Directory ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Microsoft Corporation,  Unisys,  Symantec,  European Union

Sailpoint, Aveksa announce offerings at Gartner Summit

Last week I put in a brief appearance at the Gartner Group's Identity and Access Management Summit in San Diego. This is a conference I've had few good things to say about in the past (and which Gartner Vice President Ray Wagner reminded me about this ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.

The importance of context

Context is important. I know I say that a lot, but I'll keep saying it until you all agree. That is to say, you're entitled to your own opinion but if your opinion is that context isn't important then your opinion is just wrong. To clarify for those of ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  6 Nov 2009

Centrify takes to the cloud

Centrify announced last week that it has added Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition to the long list of non-Windows operating systems whose authentication it has integrated with Active Directory. It has supported Ubuntu for quite some time, but what really ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Steve Young

Active Directory in spotlight 10 years ago

In this issue I'd like to take a look back 10 years -- to the October 1999 issues of this newsletter's predecessor, Network World Fusion Focus on Directory Services. The majority of those issues were concerned with the upcoming release of Active ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Symantec

Secrecy vs. privacy

When Bob Blakley talks, I listen. Blakley is vice president and research director for the Burton Group's Identity and Privacy Strategies. Before that he was chief scientist for security and privacy at IBM. He rarely speaks about identity and ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Gartner, Inc.

More views on cloud computing security

I recently had the opportunity to speak with the two old-line purveyors of privileged user management software (also called Privileged Identity Management and Privileged Password Management) -- Cyber-Ark and e-DMZ Security. In separate phone ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  6 Oct 2009

Novell does the right thing

When a company makes a big mistake I'll call them out on it. And when a company recognizes a mistake and corrects it, I'll give them a big pat on the back. Novell gets a pat on the back today. First, though, there's a bit of a mistake I made that I ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Novell does it again

There was a time, perhaps a dozen years ago, when Novell owned the identity management market. Of course, it's always been said of Novell that they have great technology, and abysmal marketing. They have managed to shoot themselves in the foot numerous ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.

The shine is off directories 10 years later

Ten years ago this week we launched the newsletter which, over time, became the one you're reading today. But back in September of 1999, "identity management" wasn't a phrase known to many people. So what Network World launched was called "Fusion Focus ...

From DAVE KEARNS, NetworkWorld,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

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