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The Architecture of Identity Systems

Phil Windley

Summary: The architecture of an identity system has a profound impact on the nature of the relationships it supports. This blog post uses terminology and ideas from Sam's paper to classify and analyze three different identity system architectures. In particular his terminology was helpful to me. Wikipedia defines legitimacy as.

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Nile dials-up AI to simplify network provisioning, operation

Network World

Nile also announced a new training and qualification program for customers and partners to ensure they receive the knowledge and skills to build secure, high-performance networks based on the Nile architecture. All traffic is forwarded to a centralized policy enforcement point for precise inspection and routing.

Network 177
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Protecting BigData Inside and Out: Learn from Cloudera engineers in DC 7 May

CTOvision

Yet, big data is itself a member of this environment and requires controls for authentication, authorization, audit, and protection. Organizations realizing the information advantage of an enterprise data hub (EDH) need tools that extend their security and governance controls to this mission-critical architecture.

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Authentic Digital Relationships

Phil Windley

In his article Architecture Eats Culture Eats Strategy , Tim Bouma makes the point that the old management chestnut Culture Eats Strategy leaves open the question: how do we change the culture. Tim's point is that architecture (in the general sense) is the upstream predator to culture. This is their fundamental architecture.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. Access is authorized based on business policies informed by identity and context.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

Not bad, but suppose policy requires 12 or more characters; we have to pad the password: 0M4xyZ!9ptL#K. Instituting secure computing behavior can be ingrained, but it has to be built into both policies and culture. Their two-factor authentication solution consists of a unique device ID and the big data pattern associated with it.

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IT/OT convergence propels zero-trust security efforts

Network World

Zero-trust security is the application of granular authentication, authorization, and segmentation policies and controls to ensure least privilege access to networks. Zero-trust architectures that are built for management simplicity can mitigate these issues. Our analysis found that OT-driven projects had a few unique issues.

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