Identity and Security on the Cloud Train
I’ve had many conversations with Dave Kearns over the years in hallways, a few beer halls, and conference panel discussions at events like the Internet Identity Workshop and the European Identity...
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Further into Identity as a Platform Play
A few weeks ago I had a great conversation with Matt Grant over at the Trusted Cloud Initiative. It was a lively conversation and Matt did a great job of turning it into a blog post. I’m not sure if I...
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Issues with Multi-tenant Cloud Services and Corporate Identity Providers
Updated 21 Jan 2011 to fix two broken links. Recently I have been trying, yet again, to understand social networking and its tools. I figure that, if people like Ben Goodman and Paul Madsen find that...
View ArticleMy Daughter Appears in an Arrington Post on TechCrunch
I have referred to my children numerous times in this blog. For some reason, their adventures are often rather technology focused – but this post is not about technology. It’s about the sheer techie...
View ArticleNCSS Demo at Cloud Connect
Both of my regular readers have pointed out to me that my abysmally low blog posting frequency has recently sagged. That has been somewhat due to the state of my current project, Novell Cloud Security...
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New Gig, New Rig, New digs
About 18 months ago, Julie and I left family and friends and our long-time residence in Utah and move to California. It’s been a wild ride. We’re enjoying it now, but initially it was quite a shock....
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Password anti-pattern alive and well at a financial institution
Wow. I would have thought that after the years of publicity describing the evils of the password anti-pattern, it would not be seen in any current web site that is serious about security. Today, I...
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Turtles all the way down
Photo of turtles on the VMware campus courtesy of Yvonne Wong, recruiter extraordinaire. Most of us on the Cloud Foundry identity team have been working together for just over a year. We work with a...
View ArticleIf you must have a password…
… make it easy to remember and hard to guess. We spend so much time trying to reduce the need for passwords it’s easy to overlook that password management itself can be improved. Some months ago the...
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Harmonizing OAuth2, OIDC and SCIM
The Cloud Foundry blog recently published my post about how we combined OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SCIM in the User Account and Authentication (UAA) service. The UAA and those three protocols are...
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