This was posted this afternoon on geekwithblogs. http://geekswithblogs.net/ajames/archive/2005/06/15/43684.aspx Since, my reading in the Identity Management has burgeoned after I joined my current company, I thought I may as well pitch in. Here's my response
Hello,
Thought your post was interesting. I have been working wih identity management systems for the past few years and thought I could add on to some of the stuff you were talking about.
First off, Identity Management is not only concerned with people. Rather, it is the virtual representation of any entity in the system (such as a router, IDS, etc) For example, if we put a new IDS in the environment, there are certain priviledges that go along with the router group in the environment - it is allowed to dynamically manipulate the firewall tables. How we assign the identity, what previleges it is allowed within our environment and a partner's environment is what composes of identity management.
Hopefully your second installment will contain more details about the specifics of identity management and early failures (passport) looking forward to your next installment