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Authentication Is Dead – Long Live Authentication!
We’ve recently returned from the Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego, which was an incredible opportunity to learn from analysts, do a little salesmanship, and share a drink with new friends. One...
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In Context: The Next Frontier of Your Digital Identity
I know I’ve been the Old Man of Novato, ranting about context all these years, but the market, the industry, and—most importantly—the technology are finally evolving toward this direction. For the...
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From Groups to Roles to Context: The Emergence of Attributes in Authorization
Last week, I introduced my favorite topic—digital context—and laid out a plan for how to consider the case. Today, we’ll dive in with a real-world example, looking at how freeing context from across...
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Attributes, Predicates, and Sentences: The Building Blocks of Context
We covered the key role of attributes in my last blogpost, moving from the blunter scope of groups and roles to the more fine-grained approach of attributes. Now we’re going to take this progression a...
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Man and Machine: Speaking the Same Language
In my last post on digital context, we took a trip back to logic class, looking at how we could begin to describe our world using “sentences” based on first order logic. This essential “predicate...
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How identity and context virtualization will change the way we manage identities My company invented the virtual directory to help take the complexity out of IdM. And now we’ve expanded on that idea to...
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Crawl, Walk, then Run on the Way to Identity and Context Virtualization After I published my post on identity and context virtualization, Tom Kaczmarek posted an insightful comment in the IAM section...
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Context is Coming: The Move from IdM to Identity Relationship Management and...
How a Federated ID Hub Helps You Secure Your Data and Better Serve Your Customers Welcome back to my series on bringing identity back to IAM. Today we’re going to take a brief look at what we’ve...
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