Identity Management

Open FAIR Blog Series – An Introduction to Risk Analysis and the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge

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By Jim Hietala, VP, Security and Andrew Josey, Director of Standards, The Open Group This is the first in a four-part series of blogs introducing the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge. In this first blog. we look at what the … Continue reading →

Case Study – ArchiMate®, An Open Group Standard: Public Research Centre Henri Tudor and Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg

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By The Open Group The Public Research Centre Henri Tudor is an institute of applied research aimed at reinforcing the innovation capacity at organizations and companies and providing support for national policies and international recognition of Luxembourg’s scientific community. Its … Continue reading →

The Enterprise Architecture Kaleidoscope

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By Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, Business & IT Advisory, KPN Consulting Last week I attended a Club of Rome (Netherlands) debate about a draft report on sustainability and social responsibility. The author of the report described his approach as … Continue reading →

The Power of APIs – Join The Open Group Tweet Jam on Wednesday, July 9th

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By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group The face of technology is evolving at breakneck speed, driven by demand from consumers and businesses alike for more robust, intuitive and integrated service offerings. APIs (application programming interfaces) … Continue reading →

Heartbleed: Tips and Lessons Learned

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By Jim Hietala, VP, Security, The Open Group During our upcoming event May 12-14, The Open Group Summit 2014 Amsterdam – Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™ – one of the discussions will be around risk management and the development of open … Continue reading →

Identity Standards: ISO 24760-1

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I’m currently looking at international identity standards and thought that I might post some thoughts about them as I look at them. The first that I have looked at is ISO/IEC FDIS 24760-1:2011(E) “A framework for identity management – Part 1: Terminology and concepts”. This standard is supposed to define key terms for identity management […]

Call for Submissions

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The Open Group Blog is celebrating its second birthday this month! While several members and Open Group staff serve as regular contributors, we’d like to take this opportunity to invite our community members to share their thoughts and expertise on topics related to The Open Group’s areas of expertise as guest contributors. Continue reading →

Key Concepts Underpinning Identity Management

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Today, the lack of trust in online Identity forces organizations to set up their own identity management systems, dishing out their own usernames and passwords/PINs for us. The result is that we end up having to remember well over 50 different online identities, which poses a large problem. Continue reading →

Challenges to Building a Global Identity Ecosystem

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In this fifth video – Building a Global Identity Ecosystem – we highlight what we need to change and develop to build a viable identity ecosystem. The Internet is global, so any identity ecosystem similarly must be capable of being adopted and implemen…

Entities and Entitlement – The Bigger Picture of Identity Management

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In this fourth “Entities and Entitlement” video, we explain the bigger picture – why identity is not just about people. It’s about all things – we call them “entities” – that we want to identify in our digital world. An identity ecosystem d…