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barge: Web Services Group Issues Guidelines
The Web Services Interoperability organization finalizes guidelines to make sure that Web services products interoperate as advertised.
A vendor-backed standards group on Tuesday released guidelines designed to help developers build software that complies with early Web services specifications.
The Web services Interoperability organization (WS-I) was created last year at the behest of Microsoft and IBM to ensure that a series of Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based standards, called Web services, will allow software from different providers to work together as advertised. The WS-I has about 150 members, including information technology (IT) companies and their corporate customers. Web services standards are designed to allow disparate systems share information. But differences in how IT providers write products from specifications--which are the software equivalent of building blueprints--can create conflicts and incompatible software.
With that in mind, the WS-I has finalized its first guidelines for how software providers should create products from Web services specifications to ensure interoperability.
The goal of the guidelines is to drive adoption of Web services with corporations and to simplify the lives of software developers who write Web services applications, said Rob Cheng, WS-I spokesman and product marketing manager for Web services and emerging technology at Oracle.
"We're trying to reduce risk," Cheng said. "One of the things that's slowing adoption of Web services is that end users and companies are worried about jumping on a beta format that doesn't get picked up in the industry."
From a software provider's perspective, the interoperability tests will allow companies to focus on building marketable products rather than sort out technical glitches, he said.
The initial "Basic Profile" from the WS-I addresses the first Web services standards to take hold in the marketplace. These include the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1, Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1, Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) 2.0, and XML document formats, or schema.
Several IT companies on Tuesday voiced support for the WS-I guidelines. WebMethods, which joined the WS-I board this year, said its integration software supports the Basic Profile while IBM said its WebSphere Studio development tool would adhere to the specifications later this month.
Also, DataPower said it will comply with the Basic Profile in its specialized hardware products for accelerating and securing the transmission of SOAP messages. And Mindreef released a diagnostics tool that will allow developers to check whether their Web services applications comply with the WS-I-sanctioned WSDL specification.
In about two months, the WS-I will make available testing software and sample applications that will certify compliance. At around the same time, it will introduce a logo program that will allow companies to claim they have passed the certification tests done by the WS-I.
The logo program and the certification process are self-enforcing, which means that the WS-I will not independently verify or police whether companies' products adequately adhere to guidelines.
The WS-I's first interoperability tests address the base-level Web services specifications that cover basic data exchange and formatting issues. But IT providers are busy proposing a second wave of industry specifications that will make Web services applications more reliable and secure, and generally more attractive to corporate customers.
The WS-I has established a working group to build interoperability guidelines for several security standards that are being worked on under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The working group expects to have a draft security interoperability guideline by the end of the year, Cheng said.
However, the WS-I is staying clear for the moment of the most recently proposed Web services specifications for reliable messaging, management or business process automation. Standards proposals for these more complicated functions are still being developed in standards bodies and, in some cases, beset by political wrangling.
These latest standards, which have seen overlapping proposals from rival companies, indicate that the specifications are not mature enough to form a working group in the WS-I to sort out incompatibilities, Cheng said. However, he said he was encouraged that the WS-I could act an effective forum to sort out providers' differences.
"It's nice to have a forum where vendors sit across the table and have a lot of pressure to work out some solution, particularly when their customers are involved because they don't care about the politics," he said.
Hi snackman,
I just read your post from Saturday. Now, you're really going to be in a happy place in your life. We've both been up to our eyeballs in reading these boards, which is an expense of time that has other, deeper costs. I'm sure mrs snackman and scrabble will welcome your new-found liberation.
I cannot find the words to express my admiration for all you've done for the community. I hope you enjoy your rest and will check in often.
Take care,
kevin
From Saturday's Seattle Times:
Chip to combat piracy raises privacy concerns
Q: I was reading in the paper about how the new PCs that Microsoft has been creating include a new chip that will make it nearly impossible for someone to download pirated software. Now, we all know people do this all over the world, but to think that someone can put an end to this by adding an extra chip to the computer is outrageous. In my opinion they are wasting their time, as anyone who has any computer knowledge can remove this software. However, it was also said that it may be built right on the logic board as well, ... which would make is very hard to get rid of. Do you not think this is a waste of time, since anyone who really wants to pirate software will do it, regardless of the costs?
A: Well, first of all, Microsoft doesn't make PCs. Intel, however, is working on a next generation of processors that will include a feature that can identify the computer you're using when you visit Web sites.
Intel says its Processor Serial Number Control utility will protect e-commerce transactions. When the feature is activated, the computer's identifier can be matched against the sensitive information the user inputs, validating the exchange.
According to Intel, this feature should also make pirating software more difficult since it removes anonymity and would create an electronic stamp of the material's point of origin.
There is also conjecture that the feature could be used to eliminate pirated software, since software could be configured to be used only on a computer with the correct identifying number. The problem with this, of course, is that legitimate users who want to uninstall a program on one machine and install it on a different machine would be unable to do so, at least not without contacting the vendor for a fix.
Many people are understandably concerned, however, about the privacy implications of the feature and want assurance that the feature could not be used identify users who visit sites without making a purchase and without agreeing to give out that information.
As for Microsoft, what you may have been thinking of is their "Palladium" initiative, which is called the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) for Windows. (I, for one, would rather it left the name Palladium, since it's a lot easier to say and to write than NGSCB.)
NGSCB is a proposed technology that combines software and hardware to produce a secure computing platform. Under the Microsoft proposal, chip makers would develop a processor that allows the operating system to be protected from attack by hackers. Other features include encryption and certification schemes to protect data.
Finally, like the Intel solution, Microsoft's NGSCB proposes a computer identifier that lets other computers know your computer is the computer it claims to be and that it is running specified software.
Yes, Microsoft talks with Intel and with other hardware and software manufacturers. Any such changes in technologies that actually reach market will no doubt be a combination of initiatives undertaken by individual companies. Will Microsoft's NGSCB incorporate Intel's Processor Serial Number Control utility? It is entirely possible.
At the same time there are, as you suggest, some experts who say that hackers will be able to find their way around whatever features Intel or Microsoft come up. Does that mean software and hardware vendors shouldn't bother to try to stop piracy and hacking? I don't think so.
If reasonable concerns about privacy are addressed, there's nothing wrong with vendors taking steps they consider cost-effective to prevent theft. And if the public feels its privacy has not been protected, it can vote with its wallet by refusing the buy the new technology.
no howard, you're wrong
The stock traded up to and stayed in the $20s for many months after April 2000. One could argue you cost people money then and again by suggesting to those who read the basher board Wave probably wouldn't survive. Folks could've paid for college or retirement had they not listened to you.
Anyway, judging by the volume on the basher board I think many, if not most, have re-evaluated the value of both your opinion and Wave's potential and have come up with much different conclusions than they held a week ago.
BerthaB
Did you see the other guy? area code is North Carolina...
BTW, did everyone see this?
From the basher board; I hope there isn't a hit piece coming...
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=WAVX&read=406335
journalist seeking long-term WAVX investors
I'm a journalist for a major financial website and I'm working on a story about WAVX. I'm interested in speaking with investors who've been with the company for several years and who might have some insight (or opinion) concerning the recent activity surrounding the company and the stock. If you have a few moments to speak with me, please email me your contact information at financial_journalist23@hotmail.com.
kantB...
This topic was discussed on the old RB board some time back. You should ask Schwab to put your shares in Safekeeping where they cannot be loaned. Two things to remember though.. first, it will affect your buying power and, second, there may be a fee ($25 at most firms) to certificate your shares.
mongo, check this out..
the farther you scroll the more
funny it gets!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_person.asp?membernum=23643
RE: shareholder's meting
who's going?
sam, especially this part:
from a variety of vendors
alea,
I meant to comment on a few of your posts yesterday, as I thought they were great. On this issue, I think you are simply wrong. If wildman262, rachelelise, or even you had asked the question it would have been in the spirit of discussion and disagreement. This question is posed by someone who is more into distortion than discusion.
kevin_s5
Thanks Cricket; great insight! e/
C2, re: your discussion w/ Greg S
Did you see this from ExtremeTech?
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1208342,00.asp
The trusted modules are generally considered to be the first step along the road to the Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), the Microsoft initiative formerly known as Palladium. NGSCB would use a "nexus", a form of OS kernel, in conjunction with a hardware component to encrypt and decrypt data within a PC.
Since the Intel-Wave deal does not specifically include Wave's modules, the implication is that Intel will either develop modules itself or jump straight to LaGrande, a comparable security technology that will be built into the Prescott processor. The deal calls for Intel to use Wave's Embassy trusted computing software.
Intel executives have said that LaGrande will be simply enabled in the first Prescott chips, and not necessarily turned on. NGSCB, meanwhile, is officially a part of Microsoft's Longhorn operating system. A client version of Longhorn is due in 2005 or later; a version of Windows server running the Longhorn code base is due in 2006.
knfcc
That's either a bad print or an out-of-sequence from yesterday. Yesterday showed a low of $3.12 before it got down there.
Kevin
This feels about right:
lol!!
http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf
Trading pace has slowed to a crawl....
This is EXACTLY how the MMs cover,
I'd expect a resumption of more "normal" trading
now that they've squared their books...........
Wave Systems Press Release Spurs Confusion
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Wave Systems Corp. (WAVX), a small security software company in Lee, Mass., has seen its stock price skyrocket more than 400% since Thursday after making two announcements trumpeting relationships with technology giants Intel Corp. (INTC) and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).
Much confusion ensued after the company's Monday press release. In it, Wave Systems discloses that its security software can now "work with the IBM embedded security subsystem." Investors, believing that company had inked a bundling deal with the PC maker, pushed the stock up 21% Monday and 18% earlier Tuesday.
Lark Allen, executive vice president, clarified the release in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. He said that the company's software has been approved by IBM as an official independent software vendor. This means IBM will point IBM customers interested in taking more security measures toward Wave Systems' security software.
The software will still be sold by Wave Systems on a CD-ROM, Allen said. Wave Systems hopes to eventually sell its software through IBM's reseller channels, he added.
Mariam Sughayer of Text100, who does public relations for IBM, also said that IBM will not actually be bundling the software.
Financial terms were not disclosed. Allen said there are no revenue sharing terms.
The IBM announcement followed on the heels of another announcement Thursday heralding a pact with Intel. In its press release, Wave Systems said it had reached an agreement with the chip maker that "will enable Intel to bundle Wave's software and services with a future Intel desktop motherboard."
Allen said Wave Systems could not be more detailed in its announcement out of respect to Intel's wishes. Wave Systems is "working with them to bundle our products. It's a step beyond the joint marketing with IBM," Allen explained.
Intel spokesman Robert Manetta confirmed the agreement with Wave Systems and said that Intel would include the software with its new motherboard, which will start shipping in the fourth quarter. The motherboard will be for PC desktop computers and targeted to business customers.
Allen called the announcements from the last few days "validation from two of the most important players in the space that [Wave Systems] has got good products."
He said the company expects to gain revenue from IBM's customers and called the pact with Intel an important distribution channel.
"Wave System's primary challenge has not been technology. ... It's been how to get into marketplace," Allen said.
Wave Systems reported a net loss of $43.5 million in 2002 including one-time charges, on revenue of $447,000. The company has not been profitable for the last four years. KPMG, its auditor, has expressed "substantial doubt" of the company's ability to continue as a going concern beyond the second quarter of 2003. In a recent filing with the SEC, Wave Systems disclosed it has only enough cash to fund operations through approximately Oct. 15, 2003.
The company is not followed by any analysts tracked by Thomson First Call.
After hitting a high of $5.24, an 18% increase over Monday's closing price, Wave Systems shares closed the day at $4.53, up just 2.5%.
Snackman, absolutely correct, and
I think the relationship IBM has with its other ISVs is the same one they have with Wave.
snackman, DJ is correct
Wave does not have a "contractual" agreement with IBM in the way they have a contractual agreement with Intel.
Like the other ISV partners, what Wave has is a marketing relationship. This relationship is being telegraphed to the existing population of TPM-enabled machines and "should" result in sales. At some point soon, you'll see Wave listed with the other ISV partners, including Cisco, Checkpoint, RSA, Verisign, etc.
Kevin
OT: SSPX
We'll, this is interesting. I know it isn't much in terms of dollars, but there's only one reason why insiders buy....
ISSUER: SSP SOLUTIONS INC
SYMBOL: SSPX
FILER: RUBENSTEIN JOEL K
TITLE: Director
TRANSACTION: Purchase 1,000 7/28/2003 $0.80
OWNERSHIP: 3,000
The Form 4 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by any
insider buying or selling their company's shares. This form must be
filed within 2 business days of the transaction.
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Wave Systems Corp. (WAVX) shares shot up for the second straight day on news that the company signed a deal with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to put its security software onto the computer maker's laptops and desktops.
In a press release early Monday, Wave Systems, Lee, Mass., said its security software would be included in IBM's ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Shares recently traded at $4.95, up 53 cents, or 12%, on Nasdaq volume of 24.6 million, compared with average daily volume of 2.2 million. Shares rose 21.1% Monday.
Dow Jones headline; story to follow?
NEWS HEADLINES FOR IBM
12:46 *DJ Wave Systems Up 16% On News Of IBM Deal>WAVX
C2,
fyi, some firms have their own requirements that could result in a +$3 stock being non-marginable.
kevin
snackman, any Las Vegas party updates? e/
WAVE SYSTEMS CORP (WAVX)
Up for the third-straight session on its agreement with Intel Corp. (INTC) that would help both companies speed up development of applications and services to make personal computers more secure.
Price: $4.20
Net Change: $0.55
% Change: 15.07% Gain
Volume: 17.0M Shares
lhf
who gets your desk?
Sam,
see post 975. I'm really surprised it didn't generate more comment.
ks5
We're now on the TCG press page:
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/press/
RE: today's move
Keep in mind folks that this anouncement has caught the market makers by surprise as well and they're probably getting killed as they short the stock to fill market orders. They'll undoubtedly try to walk this stock back down so they can cover. Watch for a sudden drop in the bid as they try to scare longs into selling.
kevin_s5
New CB Marazine excerpts
1) A series of technical specifications for a personal smart card reader connected to a computer, the FINREAD standard has undergone compliance and interoperability tests with several card reader manufacturers. Given the positive results of this work, UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking, the foremost personal asset manager and the Swiss leader in consumer business and banking services, has decided to run a FINREAD pilot project. The project concerns a new secure solution based on a smart card with a certificate to provide access to the bank's home banking service.
The choice of the FINREAD solution was, in particular, dictated by the concern for maximum security for this application; the level of security will be further strengthened by the use of a bank smart card.
In the second half of 2003, UBS will launch the first phase of its FINREAD pilot project.
An initial pilot phase is planned for the second half of this year with a small sample of the bank's customers. It will be followed by a second phase that will then involve a panel of around 1,000 customers outside the bank.
UBS is considering offering its customers a multi-application card next year that can be read by a portable card reader using a "challenge-response" type procedure. This is in addition to the FINREAD solution adopted for the home banking application, which requires a higher level of security. According to the bank, these expected developments will be consolidated by the future creation of a Certification Authority for this standard
2)Since July, FINREAD has been the subject of a "feasibility model" by GIE SESAM-Vitale. Four FINREAD readers (from two different manufacturers) are being tested for two separate applications: updating the Vitale medical benefits card, and reading the patient's secure Vitale card via the health professional's card (CPS).
The aims of this model are to validate the sound technical operation of SESAM-Vitale applications on FINREAD card readers, guarantee increased data security and confidentiality (use of the SSL secure data encryption protocol), and test the interoperability of FINREAD card readers.
3)Cartes Bancaires will be present at this event during which Guillaume de Longeaux will present Embedded FINREAD, and security expert Claude Megglé will talk about getting the best out of the static data authentication (SDA) method offered with EMV in a session dedicated to POS terminals and ATMs.
As in previous years, e-Smart will include a series of conferences by international experts. This is an opportunity to review the smart card market trends and perspectives (slowing telecommunications market but growing identity, financial services, transport and security markets), to present the latest developments on regional markets, notably in the United States and India, as well as identification applications (such as the European eEpoch project). The current technological challenges in the area of payment terminal security will also be addressed. Alongside the conferences, companies from the smart card industry will give numerous demonstrations of their latest innovative applications.
Microsoft's Patent Problem (wow!)
In the biggest patent case ever, the tech giant is getting trounced.
FORTUNE
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
By Roger Parloff
Last month, when Microsoft announced its bellwether decision to award employees restricted stock instead of options, it also made news in a federal courtroom--the kind of news you keep quiet about.
Microsoft suffered utter defeat at a crucial pretrial hearing in what appears to be the highest-stakes patent litigation ever--one in which a tiny company called InterTrust Technologies claims that 85% of Microsoft's entire product line infringes its digital security patents. (See Can This Man Bring Down Microsoft?)
InterTrust's engineers developed and patented what they say are key inventions in two areas: so-called digital-rights management and trusted systems. The technologies are essential to the digital distribution of copyrighted music and movies, and to maintaining the security of e-commerce in general. At its prebubble height, InterTrust (founded in 1990) employed 376 people and marketed its own software and hardware products; today it consists mainly of a patent portfolio, 30 employees, and this lawsuit. An investor group led by Sony Corp. of America and Royal Philips Electronics bought the company in January for $453 million, hoping to convince consumer electronics and tech companies--beginning with Microsoft--of the need to license its patents.
Microsoft argued in court that crucial phrases in InterTrust's patents were too vague to be enforceable, and that others required such narrow interpretation that they would have been hard for Microsoft to infringe. But in her July 3 ruling, an Oakland judge resolved 33 of 33 disputed issues against Microsoft and rebuked the company's lawyers for wasting her time by promising proof that never materialized--legal vaporware, in essence.
"This is simply another step in a long legal process," says a Microsoft spokesman, putting the best face on it. "Microsoft will continue to defend itself against what we believe are groundless and overbroad claims."
As agreed before the hearing, the parties now enter a round of settlement talks. Though InterTrust declines to place a pricetag on the suit, it's hard to imagine the company settling now for any sum that does not have a "B" in it. InterTrust claims that its inventions cover technologies that Microsoft has been weaving into its Windows XP operating system, Office XP Suite, Windows Media Player, Xbox videogame console, and .NET networked computing platform, to name just a few. If settlement talks fail and InterTrust prevails in court, it would be entitled to a court order halting sales of all those products. InterTrust CEO Talal Shamoon asks rhetorically, "How much would that be worth to Microsoft?"
DigitalID article...........
By: Phil Becker
Topic: General
Posted: Sunday, July 27, 2003 (12:00 AM MDT)
DIDW: How do you see the trends in and awareness of identity changing over the last year, given your experiences at General Motors and in the various forums you visit?
Scott: I end up participating in a lot of external events, forums, discussions, etc. and what's been interesting to me over the last year is the rising barometer around awareness of, and also concern about digital identity. There's hardly a session I go to these days where it doesn't come up in some form - whether you're talking about intrusion detection, who's on our network, who should be on our network, or application strategy. I was with a group yesterday that were talking about "compute on demand" and how you would enable that infrastructure. Not surprisingly the conversation wound around to identity management. It seems to be a very pertinent and rising issue, particularly in corporations. Especially as you go collaborative as GM has, where we do a lot of work with outside partner vendors and suppliers. That is heartening, because without some fundamental understanding of the issue and potential solutions, you can't get very far.
DIDW: So you would say that the awareness in the enterprise of the interwoven nature of identity, and the fact that all of these apparently separate things end up leading to identity has risen dramatically in the past 8 to 12 months?
Scott: Yes. Everything goes through the hype cycle. I think [identity] is something that has gone through the initial "ok, this is interesting" phase, and now people are discovering the real down to earth nitty-gritty issues associated with digital identity in corporations.
DIDW: At GM, you saw a lot of this well in advance of most companies. You wear a lot of hats with GM's involvement in things like Liberty Alliance, etc. Do you feel like things that you learned a while back are coming into other people's view finders? What tells you that awareness is growing?
Scott: The way [growing awareness] has manifested itself is a lot of questions about "what are you doing?" "What have you learned?" and "What would you do differently?" And the good news in these forums is there seems to be a lot more information to share than there was a year ago. Things they have done, problems they've run into, different views on the problem, more breadth than you would have seen a year ago. A year ago people were strictly thinking "how do I get Single Sign-On." And while that's a huge issue, it's not the only issue that people are running into at this point.
DIDW: Is there an increased awareness that SSO isn't a target by itself but rather a group of things that lead there?
Scott: Yes. In fact there is the admission in some places that in the whole scheme of things as I put digital identity in place, one of the last or near the end things I might be able to accomplish is Single Sign-On. But there are a whole bunch of other benefits along the path.
DIDW: You talked about the fact that many people are starting to see the thread of identity in even places like intrusion detection and the management of on demand computing. A year ago that was a relationship it was difficult for many to see. What is causing them to see it now?
Scott: [A year ago] it wasn't real for a lot of people, but now it's becoming apparent or rising to the surface.
DIDW: Is this a reflection that for many of your corporate peers, we have reached a point where they are getting closer to having to take action on some of these things rather than just talk about them? Maybe to the point of running a test project or two that has grounded their outlook in a way it wasn't a year ago?
Scott: I think that's fair. I see two things in particular that have acted as catalysts [to increasing awareness.] One was SQL Slammer, where if you were a typical corporation (and I think we were fairly typical) this thing hit very quickly. It forced us to go around and very quickly identify where we had instances of the Microsoft SQL database running. This thing had a doubling time measured in seconds or minutes and within a couple of hours it was everywhere in the corporation. We had to put filters in our routers and firewalls; this was quarantine big-time. We found stuff under people's desks and everywhere.
The natural discussion that took place after SQL Slammer was "How can we figure out who's attaching things to our network and what are they attaching?" It turns out there are a lot of good solutions out there for the "what" - inventory applications, asset management applications, etc. I'm not saying all solutions are equal, but there's a lot of stuff out there. But for the "who" part, guess what? It's a lot more difficult. It turns out that at most corporations you don't need any credentials of any kind to attach anything to the network. Anybody can walk in, plug in, hook up and within some very broad guidelines be on the network with whatever they want. People worry about wireless networks, because wireless makes this just a tad easier, but it really was always easy. So SQL Slammer was huge just in terms of creating that awareness.
The second thing - and this is a subtle one - is spam. All of a sudden, everyone I talk to says spam is out of control. They've all reached their breaking point. They could tolerate a certain level of it, but it's gone beyond that threshold. I haven't met anybody in the last couple of months that when asked hasn't said "Yup, I'm there and I'm willing to do something about it."
When you start peeling away the onion on how you are ever going to actually [address spam], identity is key. Every conversation I have had in the past couple of months around spam, it is widely accepted that a major part of the solution is some form of reliable digital identity.
DIDW: Isn't that a shift in understanding of spam from a few months earlier? Didn't they use to think that with enough filters it could be solved?
Scott: Yes. If you talked to people six months ago, they would say "we can develop filters", "I've got this really smart algorithm", or "I've got this other technology answer to the problem." We've now proven it just doesn't work.
DIDW: GM has been involved with Liberty, and was talking about bringing it into GM for some pilot projects. What is the status of those efforts?
Scott: Our objective was to make sure that Liberty advanced to the point that companies were producing products that we could then use. With the release of the Version 1.1 spec, that occurred - products hit the market. So this year, 2003 portfolio year, we launched the first projects in GM to use Liberty compliant software for digital identity management. Those projects were funded and initiated. We use a fairly typical project life cycle here. We go through Plan, Define, Build, Deploy stages. Those projects are now in the Plan and Define stages and one of them is in the Build phase. So we don't have any "implemented production results" yet, but I would say the projects are moving along nicely and build on top of our directory strategy that we had made quite a bit of progress on even before this year.
DIDW: What is your time frame to see field results from these projects that you can evaluate?
Scott: End of this year. We launched the projects in April and May, and they are moving smartly through their project phases. The one area that will be interesting as we get into it is the volume testing. We have a reputation for finding out if things scale. We're not in that stage yet, but we're looking forward to seeing how broadly we can make this scale within GM.
DIDW: What will be the first of these Liberty-enabled projects to come online?
Scott: We have already established a corporate-wide people LDAP directory and we have an employee portal that's wide spread. So now we are integrating the identity management software in with that directory and portal architecture. We have rules about changing passwords. The plan is to put in stronger password aging rules and single sign-on enable a set of applications with [Liberty] company wide for 100,000 employees.
DIDW: You are using it initially to link the internal use applications, what about things that are common in employee portals such as 401k providers that are external to GM?
Scott: Stay Tuned. We have strong interest from a major 401k provider in doing the external link using federated digital identity.
DIDW: To summarize then, you see that in the enterprise awareness is rapidly growing that identity is a theme in many problems as opposed to one or two. You also see us leaving some of the earlier, primitive, "build it yourself" arenas and starting to get more settled on what the approaches should be. As a result, people are gaining awareness of the place of identity in corporate infrastructure and many are starting pilot projects.
Scott: Yes. Also, I think there is a greater understanding of where this fits architecturally in the whole scheme of things, how central identity is to enabling the infrastructure and applications of a company to really work.
CL, I'm volunteering for the assistant's job! lol
Anyone know him?
Or if it was the Lee MA Wave Systems he worked for?
TWS Systems appoints veteran researcher
TWS Systems Inc. in Dunedin announced that it appointed Bradley Palser vice president of technology.
Palser, who has more than 20 years management experience, will lead research and development for the privately held financial services company.
Before joining TWS Systems, Palser was vice president of engineering for Saratoga Systems Inc., where he provided technical and architectural direction for shifts in business plan goals. Palser also led research and development for Wave Systems Corp. and was vice president of software engineering for Cimetrix Inc.
TWS Systems is a provider of automated teller machine management services to banks and credit unions.
flyer, I noticed cl, but
have hhh and trance tried to post?
kevin_s5