More organizations are taking security seriously, post 9/11, by leveraging security consultants. This is leading to organizations locking down more ports, hindering intraorganizational collaboration. We expect stronger demand for Web collaboration services that support tighter security (i.e., products that use port 80, such as PlaceWare, Raindance, or WebEx). [METAbits]

From Sept 11 to external penetration testing to collaboration to port 80, you've got it all in just 3 sentences. Ingenious.

7:48:36 PM    

... on Liberty Alliance:

Phase 1 now for Liberty, in terms of the scaling back, will see the public spec going out in the June/July time frame. What that will be is the ability to do very simple authentication with user name and password...The user won't re-authenticate...So the whole concept is that Webvan and Pets.com make a business relationship in which they say we are going to implement these specifications of Liberty on our side. And on Pets.com if we see you came from Webvan we will accept your authentication. So it's a complete uni-directional hand-off.

At the end of the year we should see Phase 2 [which] is going to be a little bit more about being able to do attribute exchange or profile data exchange

...on digital identity uptake:

What we are seeing in terms of who's adopting it first, and who isn't, and where is it being adopted is solving the intra-enterprise Identity problems...The next place where we've had quite a few enterprises go down the Identity route with us is with [their] business partners...It's very much a B2B arena. We've seen minimal interest in the B2C space. We think that will continue, that focus will be primarily intra-enterprise, then more in the B2B space, and only eventually into the B2C space.

Do I really need to capture all DIW articles?

7:45:04 PM