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Merry Christmas!

Hi to all you Identricity readers, Thanks for visiting and engaging during 2010 and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Cheers, Adrian

Westpac joins CBA with SMS security expansion

So, Westpac and CBA have introduced SMS One Time Passwords (OTP) to provide second factor authentication (2FA). I bank with CBA (email address on my About link, phishers) and its good to see them finally introduce additional security measures – especially after reading articles for the past 12 months describing how CBA customer credentials are the most [...]

Will CA staff cuts impact IAM product development?

Wow. CA has made some major cuts to its local research and development workforce. There’s surely going to be some impact to their IAM products as a few notable pieces are developed out of Melbourne such as Identity Manager (parts of it anyway), Directory and SOA Security Manager (did this used to be transaction minder?). Being [...]

9 Vulnerabilities in Sun Identity Manager

For those of us or with clients running Sun Identity Manager, there are 9 vulnerabilities addressed in the latest patch. The affected product versions include:   Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.0 Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.1 Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.1.1 Sun Java System Identity Manager 8.0 Check the IT News article [...]

If IBM buys SUN, whose IAM suite wins?

We’re living in interesting times. With share prices at an all time low for many tech giants, its a great time to go company shopping if you’re big and cashed up. I remember the days when Sun IM was the beez neez of provisioning and identity life-cycle management and IBM Tivoli IM still shipped with [...]

Sun identity hero game

I’m sure it’s been around for long a time, but I’ve just come across Sun’s Identity Hero game. This definitely provides a chuckle (unless you’re an auditor or responsible for SOX) . Remember not to run over the “disgruntled employees” without an “Access Management” powerup. You’ll loose a life. I got to level 6 and [...]