Did you know that every zebra has its own unique stripe pattern? Just like a human fingerprint, every zebra can be identified by their distinctive set of stripes. Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. But they’d also be wor...

I thought about titling this blog, “Are Clients Dead?”, but that’s an absolutist question meant to provoke, and I’m getting exhausted with security absolutism these days. Never mind clients: nuance is certainly not dead. With that in mind, I’d like to take you through some of the questions you might...

If you take a look back through classic literature, particularly fairy tales, there are some themes that emerge. Parental abandonment is one (besides Sleeping Beauty, what other fairy tale characters have two living parents? Maybe if you count Pongo and Perdy from 101 Dalmatians…). Identity is anoth...

You know that you want to bring PKI into your organization. You’ve got approval from the leadership team, and you’re starting to work out your budget and requirements. An early question to answer: what trust model do you go with? Public trust, private trust, or a combination of the two? What do the ...

A few years ago, identity was all about me. No, I’m not a narcissist - at least I don’t think I am.  What I mean is that the technologies and processes used to establish and manage my identity in an organization were all about me as a user. Authentication credentials and permissions were assigned t...