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Kuppinger Cole News

• The identities of core business objects
• breaking a habit - UNDO
• It’s the authorisation, stupid!
• More Crystal Balls… PKI v.2, convergence and the like
• Felix Gaehtgens: Sun's new Access Manager is now OpenSSO Enterprise

Articles

Marne Gordan´s Keynote at EIC 2008 21.05.2008 Joerg Resch

Marne´s brilliant keynote on the 32 Billion $ (2008) GRC Market. Talking about some famous examples in finance and health industries, she reminds us, that it is all about human behavior, when it gets down to the question, why GRC is so important. Read the article

Information Rights Management 23.07.2007 Martin Kuppinger

In each of the Webinars held on the results of our market study 2006 I got stuck with something which is also the subject of lively discussions within KPC: Why is it that Information Rights Management as one of the ?future issues? is not believed to be as important as other topics? I myself, though, am convinced that it not less relevant as for example Identity Federation. Read the article

Role management - where is it heading? 15.07.2007 Martin Kuppinger

I am working on a comprehensive report on standard tools for Role Management and their vendors. This has long been an item on my to-do list, but only now it has gained top priority. The reason is of course that Role Management was a cutting-edge issue on KPC`s European Identity Conference. Read the article

Why Directory Services are after all strategically relevant 15.07.2007 Martin Kuppinger

In one of the latest issues of this newsletter I had tried to explain why the lively discussion about Directory Services has flagged. They have become a commodity, the most important strategical decisions usually having been made before. What´s more, the enterprises have realized that one Directory Service is rarely enough. The result is in many cases a bunch of Application Directories besides some strategical directories. Read the article

Trends in Provisioning 05.07.2007 Martin Kuppinger

What will be ?the next big thing? of Identity Management? I think there will be two development steps both deserving to be described like this. Read the article

Identity Management and Business 05.07.2007 Martin Kuppinger

I always appreciate feedback on my newsletter articles ? especially positive feedback, of course. Recently I was able to do so twice: The first positive feedback concerned my article about Roles Management in one of our latest newsletters, the second referred to the text on Data Quality some time before. In both cases, I would like to add some important thoughts to the discussion. Read the article

The future of role management 29.06.2007 Martin Kuppinger

In connection with Identity Federation, a discussion repeatedly circulating about Role Management is being renewed. A closer look at the discussion, however, reveals as a main focus the question how to best model roles ? suggesting that no big change is in sight! Read the article

More flexibility for identity 29.06.2007 Martin Kuppinger

Comparing the latest development of Identity Management with other IT areas, you will realize that the end is still out of sight. Identity Management is on the way towards developing into a service infrastructure. In the new scenario, the products will no longer be in the focus ? they will be replaceable. Read the article

Events

Conference: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) Forum 2008 18.11. - 19.11.2008 , Frankfurt am Main

Je komplexer die IT-Infrastruktur, desto angreifbarer ist sie und desto höher die Aufwände (und Kosten) für Compliance. Für die erfolgreiche Einführung einer unternehmensweiten GRC-Plattform ist es deshalb von entscheidender Bedeutung, einerseits deren Fundament in Form einer zukunftsorientierten Identity Management Strategie darauf auszulegen, aussagekräftige Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen, und andererseits durch einen Risk-orientierten Compliance-Ansatz die Kunst der Beschränkung auf das Wesentliche zu üben. Die Kuppinger Cole Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) Jahresveranstaltung 2008 fokussiert Strategien und Vorgehensweisen, Technologien und Werkzeuge, die Ihre Unternehmensführung in die Lage versetzen, wettbewerbs- und kostenrelevante Entscheidungen in Kenntnis aller wesentlichen Informationen und Risiken zu treffen - ohne dass Ihre Compliancekosten ausufern. Information

Congress: European Identity Conference 2009 05.05. - 08.05.2009 , Munich

With more than 450 attendees from 23 countries, EIC is a major platform in Europe to create, support and foster the dialog between GRC and identity management thought leaders and users, but as well between thought leaders themselves, between Europeans and Americans, vendors, vendor partners and users, between open source initiatives and the market. Information

EIC 08 Sessions

Identity Enabled Information Management within the Max Planck Society 24.04.2008 10:30-11:30 Dr. Thomas Soddemann, Max Planck Society

As service providers for the scientific communities in the Max Planck we are faced with a growing demand for access to distributed resources. Among these we find computing resources as well as various types of data bases, archives and infrastructure components (e.g. networks, sensor arrays, experiment controls). Providing a scalable infrastructure for accessing information in general is the challenge we are going to meet. It is self-evident that authentication and authorization play a major role in the given scenarios. The status quo shows a mixture of evolutionary grown solutions ranging from IP based authentication for accessing journals online to manually maintaining user databases and firewall rules at the various institutes. Currently, a group of service providers within the Max Planck Society (RZG, Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverbeitung, Göttingen, General Administration, Munich, and Max Planck Digital Library, Munich) and IT departments of several... View details

Business-centric Identity Management 22.04.2008 15:00-15:30 Keith Grayson, SAP

In the enterprise Identity Management has been seen as the domain of IT Security and IT Operations, whereas most company processes are driven by the business. This keynote looks at the thoughts that SAP has on linking the domains of IT security and operations with the business to create business-centric Identity Management solutions. View details