Tuesday, February 04, 2003

Sun ONE Has ID Management Advantage "...although the Liberty Alliance support is interesting, eWeek Labs found the real value of Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) Identity Server 6.0, which was released last month, is in its excellent and extensive Web access control and single-sign-on capabilities. In addition to the Liberty Alliance support—which is no surprise, given that Sun is a driving force behind the specification—Identity Server also includes support for SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), broad XML support and strong Java capabilities, making it possible to integrate its authentication capabilities with almost anything..." 8:10:45 PM    comment [] Top 10 Web App Vulnerabilities "The Open Web Application Security Project, a collaborative security education site, has released a list of the top 10 vulnerabilities in Web applications. The list, at www.owasp.org, is clearly written and full of real problems—with a variety of matching solutions. Here's the vulnerabilities list followed by eWeek Labs' recommendations..." 8:09:10 PM    comment [] Has Google Won? A Librarian Says Students Have More Data Than They Know What to Do With "There was a very interesting article recently in College & Research Libraries News ["Facing the Competition," December 2002] that basically said, We're giving up on information literacy because we can't reach the students anymore, and we're just hoping to come up with ways that they can search our Web site to come up with some information that will help them. That, to me, is throwing up the white flag and saying, Google has won. I think if we keep working with the people who create the databases, maybe we can come up with a product that has a better balance. ... There are loads of techniques that could improve searching, and they've got to be built into the systems better. " 7:41:52 PM    comment []

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