NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT 08/16/04 Today's focus: Six degrees of separation in identity management
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As one writer explains: "If I were to run into Elvis in the Grant Line Road Kroger store's produce department, we'd hardly be to the dairy case before establishing that he was in King Creole with (1) Dolores Hart, who was in Where the Boys Are with (2) Paula Prentiss, who was in Catch 22 with (3) Richard Benjamin, who was in a remarkably brief TV series, Quark, which featured (4) the Barnstable Twins, whose grandmother, (5) Ellen Haverly, gave a pressure cooker to (6) me as a wedding present. Voila! Only six degrees separate the King and me!" ( <http://www.louisville.com/loumag/mar/bacon.htm> ) The theory played out for me over the past week. Approximately 10 days ago, I was speaking to Consul Risk Management Chief Technologist, Kristina Lovejoy. Among the things we discussed, Lovejoy brought up Consul's philosophy that knowing Who, What, When and Why an event occurred is intrinsic to regulatory compliance reporting. That, of course, refers to what I've called Context Based Access, an idea that I've floated a number of times but which also was featured prominently in Archie Reed's electronic book "The Definitive Guide to Identity Management". A few nights later, I had a conversation with Reed, formerly with Critical Path and TruLogica and now director of strategy at HP (TruLogica's new owner). Shortly thereafter, while talking with MaXware Director of Worldwide Marketing Ira Horowitz, I learned that HP had licensed MaXware's Identity Center provisioning product to supplement its own identity management offerings. Provisioning reminded me of Courion, whose recently released ComplianceCourior product (see <http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/dir/2004/0719id1.html> ) is based on technology licensed from - Consul Risk Management. It is, indeed, a small world. Consul, by the way, is a well-established security organization whose expertise in the field of digital auditing has attracted the attention of many players in the identity management space that need to structure a complete regulatory compliance solution. Those of you with older, or "roll-your-own," identity management would do well to investigate Consul's Consul Insight Suite. While compliance might not be an issue with you today, it will be very soon. Reed, who was TruLogic's vice president of strategy when the company was acquired by HP, tells me he now spends most of his time patiently explaining to the (mostly) hardware company's clients and partners what identity management is, why it's important and how they can go about implementing it. Hmm, "what," "why" and "how" - sounds like context to me. MaXware's Horowitz wanted to remind me (so that I could remind you) that it offers both virtual directory and metadirectory services and that the two offerings are built on entirely separate code bases. It's not simply a question of storage (i.e., metadirectories include a datastore while virtual directories are join engines pointing to various datastores) but the basic architecture is different, as it should be to get the most out of each product. Horowitz had another concept to float, but I'll get to that in the next issue. Hurry back. _______________________________________________________________ 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Oracle An Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper: From Grid to Great? Grid computing is breaking out. Familiar mostly to academics, government groups, and scientific researchers, this technology that links together the power of diverse computers to create powerful, fast and flexible systems is beginning to catch on in the corporate world. 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