Inside ID - Part 4

The next story in the Privacy and Trust series will be coming shortly, after a couple more updates from the Inside ID conference in Washington, D.C. In my keynote on the opening day of the conference I asserted that organizations and individuals should be spending more time and money on the security of their systems. I said that we don't leave our homes for the weekend with doors and windows open and yet we effectively leave our "always on" network-connected PC's wide open. In John Gould's talk he took this to the next level and discussed specific vulnerabilities of the PC including viruses, worms, hacking, phishing, and spyware. It was a wake-up call for me and I immediately headed for the Net with my ThinkPad to get some new software. (read more)

PKI December 10, 2003 10:41 PM

Inside ID - Part 3

The next story in the Privacy and Trust series will be coming shortly, but first will be an update or two from here in in Washington, D.C. at Inside ID. The conference has an exhibit area where dozens of vendors are showing digital identify solutions including smart cards, biometric technology, and middleware. There are almost 100 speakers from government, academia, and the private sector. I gave a talk at the opening general session where I shared a big-picture view about the shape of the future of the Internet. I talked about what the Internet has in store for our business and personal lives and why trust, in the form of secure digital identity and authentication, is critical. Since I have a meeting in Washington on Thursday, I decided to stay in town to visit the exhibition hall and attend as many of the seminar sessions as possible. I am very glad I decided to do that -- I have learned a lot. (read more)

PKI December 10, 2003 05:32 PM

Inside ID - Part 2

The next story in the Privacy and Trust series will be coming shortly, but first will be this update on the Inside ID conference in Washington, D.C. The conference has an exhibit area where dozens of vendors are showing digital identify solutions including smart cards, biometric technology, and middleware. There are almost 100 speakers from government, academia, and the private sector. I gave a talk at the opening general session where I shared a big-picture view about the shape of the future of the Internet. I talked about what the Internet has in store for our business and personal lives and why trust, in the form of secure digital identity and authentication, is critical. Since I have a meeting in Washington on Thursday anyway, I decided to stay in town to visit the exhibition hall and attend as many of the seminar sessions as possible. I am very glad I decided to do that -- I have learned a lot. (read more)

PKI December 10, 2003 11:57 AM