After getting home from a long week in London, I was catching up on the many blogs I follow (How do some people find the time to post so often) and came across Dave Kearns newsletter (here) announcing that CyberDefender are not doing a free version of their fully fledged Internet Security Suite. This couldn’t have come at a better time. As a frequent subscriber to the Norton suite, I… Read More »Free Internet Security Suite
For those of you who read my blog regularly, you will know that I am reading quite a lot of books at the moment. Having finished Identity Crisis a few weeks ago, I was browsing through a local bookshop when I came across The Google Story. Since I have not really followed the ins and outs of Google as a company since they started, I thought it would be an… Read More »Google’s Amazing Story
I know its a bit belated but I want to say a big CONGRATULATIONS to my good friends and ex-colleagues Mel Holloway and Brent Thurrell who took up the reins as Director of Operations EMEA and Director of Sales EMEA (respectively) for VAAU on 1st January. Both Mel and Brent are very competent and enthusiastic professionals in the field of IAM and I’m sure they will do very well in… Read More »Congratulations
The client that I am currently working for has just, this week, introduced new security barriers into the foyer. Since my contract with the client was due to finish at the end of December but was extended my old pass has expired and I haven’t had chance to get a new one. Therefore, I have to sign in the visitors book everyday and get issued a temporary pass. Now, in… Read More »Security works in the strangest of ways
I heard a comedian on TV last night say that the British only like two things; queuing and moaning. The only reason they like queuing is so that they can have a good moan about it! Well, in the spirit of being British I would hate to let the side down so here is my first rant of the new year. <Soapbox> Since September I have been travelling from my… Read More »Good old British moan
After a couple of years with Pipex I finally decided it was time to change ISP. Why, I hear you ask? Basically, I was paying too much for a 1MB line. Yes, believe it or not, I still only had a 1MB connection at home. For an IT professional I am fully ashamed of myself. However, after looking around to find the best deal I finally plunged for Orange as… Read More »“The futures bright”……..new ISP
I feel really far behind at the moment. I have been so busy working to meet project deadlines that I have neglected my blog. As I think I have said before, this hasn’t been helped by very limited connection on the client site and no hotel internet (I didn’t realise there were still such places 🙂 However, I am now making a concerted effort to catch up with everyones’ blogs… Read More »Catch Up
Today I saw from Kevin Miller’s blog that he has released an Identity Selector for Firefox. I know he isn’t the first and Chuck Mortimer has also got one, but Kevin’s is the first I have had chance to download and try. As suggested in his post, I tried it on Chuck’s sample page but received an error (must look into it and try again). Therefore, I tried it on… Read More »Identity Selector on Firefox
CA OEM’s PingFederate I saw this today on both Andre Durand’s and Ping Identity’s blogs. I was sat with a smug look on my face while I was reading this. Whilst I was on-site implementing a federation solution utilising CA eTrust SiteMinder last year (October 2005), I remember telling my CA Partner Manager at the time that CA should either buy Ping Identity or at least OEM PingFederate to replace… Read More »CA OEM Ping Federate
As a consultant in the field of Identity Management, for some time I have felt that I wanted to participate more with helping to drive the standards and the industry forward. I am already on the Identity Gang and find it very informative. I even chip in when I have something interesting to say. Unfortunately, not being in the US I don’t get to go to most of the Identity… Read More »My contribution to driving OASIS standards