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Recent Thoughts and Media Appearances
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IDPro - 10 Years Onwards
Sitting on the flight home, I have a bit of quiet to think about the week that has just passed. I am returning home from KuppingerCole’s European Identity Conference (EIC) - the 19th year of this event. It was a full week of talks, friends, thoughts, and reminders… notably that the work isn’t done.
Which work? Well, certainly the work of identity practitioners is not done. We are being asked to not only accommodate, but be facile with, use cases that were hazy, if not unimaginable, just 24 months ago. Our systems are being asked to wrangle a geometric explosion of complexity for which they were never designed. Among the good news is that we have seen similar patterns, albeit at a different order of magnitude. And we have some tools which need to be stretched to reach the highest we must reach.
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Generational Change in Identity: Part 3 - Proof and Portability
The Story So Far
Last week I continued to explore the characteristics of the coming generation of identity. In that post, I looked at On Behalf Of and how it is critical to solve not only for AI-related reasons but also for our own mortality. This week, I round things out with an exploration of Proof and Portability.
Proof and Portability
If OBO speaks to who or what is acting on behalf of some other entity (either carbon- or silicon-based), then at some point that thing has to provide proof of who (or what) they are. This brings us to the third area of the new generation of identity: Proof and Portability.
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Generational Change in Identity: Part 2 - On Behalf Of
The Story So Far
Last week I opened the conversation about generation change with the hypothesis that Enron and SOX defined the current generation of digital identity and that the next generation is upon on us. I proposed that there are 3 characteristics of this next generation:
- Pace
- On Behalf Of
- Proof and Portability
Last week I tackled Pace and this week we will tackle On Behalf Of.
On Behalf Of
But the new generation will not only be defined by Continuous Identity. There is a use case within identity that we have never formally addressed: on-behalf-of. One of the earliest questions that I received as an analyst was how does the industry address on-behalf-of from a protocol perspective. We didn’t, 20 some years ago, have an answer to this question and we have made meager progress subsequently.
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Beyond SOX: Generational Change in Identity: Part 1 - Pace
I have been working in the identity industry for 25 years. My identity origin story starts, at least in a professional sense, in October of 2000 at a user provisioning company called Access360. We later went on to get our butts kinda kicked by WaveSet and got acquired by IBM to become IBM Tivoli Identity Manager.
25 years is generally accepted to be the “age” of a generation.
And I think we are experiencing generational change in the identity industry. Now to be clear, I am not so arrogant as to use my own time in the industry as the measuring stick for that generation. Instead, I believe the current generation started in 2001, specifically with the Enron scandal and subsequent Sarbannes-Oxley Act in 2002. Almost 25 years ago… and that combination of events has defined the current generation of identity. But assuredly as Gen X became the Millenials, this current generation of identity is giving way to a new one and it is this generational change that I would like to explore with you today.
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The Inevitability of Pat Paterson
Identity can be, to some, a dry, academic topic. Some people could make it sing. They could make it so interesting, so compelling that anyone who would identity the singular most interesting topic they had ever come across.
Pat Paterson was the foremost among them. He brought such a warmth and energy to the topic.. any topic he talked about.
He has passed away and now we are less yet another amazing presence in our industry.
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