Ha, a new (at least for me) security weblog - DisLEXia by Max Dornseif. You won't believe it, but on Sunday I was having a look at his paper on wireless security at ArXiv (that I discoverd on Saturday). Today I've found out he's got a blog covering "lies, laws, legal research, crime and the internet".  10:35:35 PM    

Through the Alan Mather's (who BTW has quite an interesting role in the UK's e-government unit) e-government at large weblog, I have found a link to several articles on further plans for Government Gateway. The last time I was looking at the Gateway, I though it was a country-specific version of Microsoft Passport. Now it looks dangerously close to the whole .NET My Services concept - its further extensions will provide additional services such as appointment management, calendar and notification. It will be intersting to see if the Office of the e-Envoy will be able to pull off what Microsoft hasn't. Tune back in 2004.  9:55:45 PM    

Netegrity, Oblix, BusinessLayers, CriticalPath, Sun and Siemens, be afraid. IBM has again shown their interest in having a complete solution, this time for user and access management. Only couple of months after they bought Metamerge they went shopping again. This time they found Access360.  [original link: Scott Loftesness]

This means that now IBM's Tivoli security suite includes Access Manager and Privacy Manager for e-Business for web access management, Access Manager for Systems Integration, User Administration and Access Manager for Operating Systems for integration of web access control with platforms and legacy applications access control. Metamerge metadirectory products will soon accompany Identity Manager identity management product. What is missing from the complete picture? Provisioning. Hence Access360's enRole.

If IBM succeed in integrating all products, they will have a suite of user and access management products that will

• fit most scenarios that you can come up with,
• be relatively cheap to deploy because of the products pre-integrated character,
• be available to for purchase on per module basis
• play well with most IBM and third-party software that organisations already have in place.

Rather good combination of benefits.

The question now is who will be the next to be bought - Netegrity or Oblix? And who will be the buyer?

  9:26:35 PM