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Analysis - Identity verification for online businesses and thoughts from EiG
News We're Watching - current news items in the age and identity verification space
Privacy for Online Businesses
Identity and Access Management, IAM, is critical to all enterprise markets, especially those involved in transactional activity where the protection of privacy is essential. IAM involves several steps, one of which is the authentication of the identity prior to any provisioning administration being invoked. As long as internet use for business purposes continues to rise, the threat of hackers will continue to grow - therefore requiring security and authentication processes while maintaining compliance and business regulations.
Many IAM Solutions fit within the Software Oriented Architecture (SOA). The SOA adoption has been held up with confusion as to whether it is a business-oriented architecture or an IT integration process. It is really both which is why there has been difficulty with SOA becoming the key enable of the 21st century. However IAM has been an integrated and necessary process with transaction based organizations for dozens of years and will soon find its position as an essential process within the SOA platform.
Amy Penn
EiG: View from Barcelona
Having just returned from the European I-gaming conference EiG in Barcelona, it really feels like industries and politics is are in a constant state of rebuilding - where countries, companies, and people stand on each others shoulders and rely on each other to build solid policies or structures. I saw a great metaphor of this up close with the Castellers of Barcelona that I watched and actually joined over the weekend at the Merce' festival, the celebration of the city's patron saint. The goal of the Castellers is to build the most fantastic human castles, or structures, by tightly binding themselves together in a coordinated effort. The goal is to provide such a safe and sturdy structure that a 6-year-old girl can climb to the top.
To extend the metaphor... Aristotle is working to provide a more stable structure for the castle and ideally for the kids that we seek to protect.
At the EiG conference, I was struck by how strongly the industry and regulators are coming together to explore global solutions for age verification - it's time to put aside the "competitive fire." By coming together we can build a healthier political environment for the gaming industry, and even a better public attitude toward I-gaming worldwide.
Michael Bolcerek
News We're Watching
IBM bails out HP IAM software customers (10/1/08)
IBM has announced migration services and migration for abandoned HP Identity Centre security software customers with the goal of helping the HP customer benefit from IBM's broad capabilities for securing and efficiently running IT for their business.
The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine announce Synovus Financial services company as the winner of the SOA Case Study Competition (9/30/08)
The goal of the SOA case study competition was to highlight business success stories and lessons learned to provide proof points and insights for other organizations considering or pursuing SOA adoption. The next SOA Consortium Meeting is in Santa Clara on December 10-11, 2008.
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