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There are only losers in Cloud federated IAM

I read a question on one of the cloud mailing lists asking which of the federated authentication protocols (SAML, OpenID, Oauth, WRAP, etc) would win. My initial reaction was to reply, “Isn’t the question which ones won’t lose?” Okay, that’s snarky and perhaps a double negative, but I find it a rather dubious notion to [...]

I Repeat Myself When Under Stress, I Repeat Myself When Under Stress

Apparently the time has come to re-release the SANS/CWE 25 — something that we can expect annually. The good news is that exercises like this do plenty to hype up software security and its importance. In fact, in many ways the target of these lists is “the reporters who cover software security.” So hype = [...]

Cloud Hype and de-Hype

I had been reading about Gartner’s prediction that 1 out of every 5 businesses were going to dump all of their physical IT infrastructure when Sammy Migues sent me a thread from LinkedIn about it. The thread contained many of the common sense views about Cloud Computing that you’d expect: IT should be based on [...]