http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan Hitachi ID Systems, Inc. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:24:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An amusing graphic that everyone could benefit from: (click on link to see the picture) http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2012/01/27/is-it-a-discussion-or-a-lecture/ Does your organization do business in Europe? Sell any products or services to EU citizens? If so, you'll want to watch developments regarding a refresh to the EU privacy directive. There is a proposal to turn it into a uniform regulation (at least it will be the same in ... http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2012/01/25/eu-gets-serious-about-privacy/ Just read this: windowsteamblog.com Looks like Microsoft is going to use Windows Update to push out a "patch" that finally drives a nail into the coffin of IE6/IE7. Hooray! The world will be a better place with that ancient piece of junk gone. Just think of all the HTML ... http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/12/20/ie6-is-finally-going-to-go-away/ It used to be that nobody in their right mind would connect mission critical SCADA systems to the Internet. That was certainly the "accepted best practice" many years ago when I used to do pen tests. It seems that some people these days place convenience over security, and the result ... http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/11/18/scada-system-hacked/ I just came home from San Diego, where I was at Gartner's Identity and Access Management conference. A good event, actually. Lots of smart people in one place, all passionate about identity and access management and sharing their real-world experiences. One session that really struck a chord for me was Ian ... http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/11/17/ian-glazers-talk-developing-a-business-centric-identity-and-access-management-strategy/ Just in time for Halloween and definitely worth a read: Dark reading. http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/10/31/best-or-worst-hacks-of-2011-thus-far/ https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/10/05/fun-and-interactive-password-strength-calculator/ I noticed an advertisement in an in-flight magazine yesterday. It was for an HP tablet. I checked the magazine - it was dated September. Just think: this ad was purchased by HP very recently, and in the very short time between advertising purchase and when I picked ... http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/09/28/sometimes-we-forget-how-fast-things-change/ I had the pleasure of upgrading the OS on my laptop the other day. And I use the term pleasure very loosely, because I had to move around about 150GB or data - so much fun. Anyways, I was not surprised to see that the most recent patchlevel of VMWare ... http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/09/20/vmware-workstation-655-on-ubuntu-1104-natty-narwhal/ I just got a demo from our engineers of an integration they completed for a higher-ed customer. The customer is using a prominent ERP for higher ed and needed to send onboarding and deactivation requests, in real time, to our identity manager. This was to be done using ... http://blogs.hitachi-id.com/blogs/idan/2011/09/17/spml-is-dead-long-live-spml-envelope/