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Moving Blues 2

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

In January 2011 I posted a blog called ‘Moving Blues’. Having moved this month from a well-known university town in Belgium to the rural depths of France, nearly two years later it’s disappointing we seem to be moving backwards in terms of … Continue reading →

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IdentitySpace has moved

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

Welcome to  Marcus Lasance’s Identity Management blog. News IdentitySpace has moved to from BlogLines to WordPress. Why I have stuck to BlogLines for so long can only be explained by man’s inherent conservatism or my lazyness.  BlogLines did for several years what it … Continue reading →

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What exactly does user centricity mean?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

Today I have been reading the June 25, 2010 draft of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace  as published by the US Department of Homeland Security. To me it is a sound document that makes a lot of … Continue reading →

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Logging on to two single sign-on systems, is that really possible?

Posted on July 12, 2010 by

It should be a contradictio in terminis but some companies do have them: To log a fault ticket with the IT help desk you log into the first SSO system with one set of credentials, then a moment later when … Continue reading →

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Open Identity Exchange (OIX) Launched, Verizon joins as member

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

The first fruits of our labour are already attracting the attention of the industry   See as an example Link to Press Release On BusinessWire….. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/open-identity-exchange-formed-to-build-trust-in-online-identity-management-2010-03-03?reflink=MW_news_stmp Link to release on OIX site itself …. http://openidentityexchange.org/press-releases/oix-launch-2010-03-03 Now we only need to … Continue reading →

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OpenID or OpenIdentity?

Posted on February 15, 2010 by

My employer has recently decided to join the InformationCard Foundation (ICF) and I take some credit for that simple fact, as followers of my different articles and blogs will no doubt understand. The real exciting news will have to wait … Continue reading →

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Moving Blues

Posted on January 31, 2010 by

I recently moved house, to Leuven in Belgium actually. This is one of the reasons for a lack of postings in January. We needed a break so after returning the U-Haul van we headed off to a beach down-under, where … Continue reading →

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Headline items on identity for governments

Posted on November 3, 2009 by

In preparation of a Government Roundtable at the RSA conference in London last month I wrote the following positioning paper on Identity Management topics that governments should be concerned about. I hope some colleague in government will find it useful.   … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of an Identity theft

Posted on October 9, 2009 by

In May 2006, while we were celebrating a friends’s 50th birthday party in the Chech Republic, when we got an anxious late night call from our teenage daughter who was ‘house sitting’. An opportunist intruder had entered the alleyway leading to … Continue reading →

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