Confusion in the identity provider market

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on March 10, 2006

I've been at the UCISA conference in Blackpool, which is the first time I've been to a conference exhibition targeted at IT managers rather than techies, geeks or hackers. I'm a little staggered by both the complete lack of technical interoperability know how on display: there are at least five large companies present trying to flog identity management systems, but no one at any of the stands is ever able to comment on how their system compares to, relates to, or inter-operates with any of the other systems on offer. Even worse, only one seemed to have a solid knowledge of Shibboleth, the system that the JISC has plumped for.

For the record, Sun came out on top and Microsoft at the bottom.

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		Confusion in the identity provider market Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on March 10, 2006 I've been at the UCISA conference in Blackpool, which is the first time I've been to a conference exhibition targeted at IT managers rather than techies, geeks or hackers. I'm a little staggered by both the complete lack of technical interoperability know how on display: there are at least five large companies present trying to flog identity management systems, but no one at any of the stands is ever able to comment on how their system compares to, relates to, or inter-operates with any of the other systems on offer. Even worse, only one seemed to have a solid knowledge of Shibboleth, the system that the JISC has plumped for. For the record, Sun came out on top and Microsoft at the bottom. Federated Identity Management \| Identity and Access Management \| identity federations \| Identity Service Provider \| JISC \| JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) \| Shibboleth \| sun Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 4221 reads
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