About IETF The IETF is the premier internet standards body developing open standards through open processes. While most IETF work takes place online, meetings provide in-person opportunities to advance work. My last IETF meeting was 48th in Pittsburgh in summer of 2000. So it’s been a while since that....
While browsing through LinkedIn, I came across this table in a post from Mark O’Neill, an analyst from Gartner. Looking at his very brief post promoting their $195 research note, I realised that at least one third of (their) view on required API security building blocks can...
James Bond, Ethan Hunt, Maxwell Smart, Johnny English have all been turned into relics. The Mission Impossible franchise is still up & running, but in the real world, the dark allies, wide brimmed hats and meetings on a park benches beside the Washington monument to...
Earlier this month I took the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn, across the Baltic Sea to attend the Ministerial eGov Conference on 6 October 2017. The highlight of the event was the announcement that all European Union Member States and EFTA countries signed the so-called Tallinn Declaration. Estonia is...
Quite a few of our blogs have recently been about projects we are participating in, technology deep dives or GDPR. Time to take a step back and go to the basics and figure out which are the fundamental features and benefits of Customer Identity and...
The big Equifax breach has been on the headlines for over a week. If you’re not aware of it – please google it. There are a lot of blogs and articles out there. This will be one of those blogs. According to sources, the information of UK...
New house, new job, your next holiday even, location has always been an important part of the decision making process. When it comes to powering your business, location is important too. Cloud hosted Software as a Service is nothing new, it was first proposed by John...
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) published the new guidelines on digital identity on June 22nd, 2017. The most notable change is the retirement of the concept of Level of Assurance (LoA) as an evaluation criteria when it comes to digital identities. IAL The new guidelines...
Steve Roylance, Vice President of Identity Services, Ubisecure, recently participated in the 40th IACA Annual Conference in Halifax and proposed a model where an organisation managing vetted identity information, such as a business registry could become an Identity Provider (IdP). Here are his thoughts. Unleashing the...
Guest blogger Richard Hancock continues his series on GDPR preparation. Today is a very important day. Exactly 1 year / 12 months / 52 weeks / 365 days, until enforcement of the biggest revolution in data protection, subject’s rights and organisation’s increased obligations! At the very core...