ny university worth the title is likely to have a very mixed identity environment. At Plymouth State University we’ve been pursuing a strategy of unifying identity and offering single sign-on to web services, but an inventory last year still revealed a great number of systems not integrated with either our single sign-on (AuthN) or authorization [...]

Posted September 29, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, CAS, hacks, identity, identity management, idm, login, single sign on, university portal, wordpress, WordPress MU. 7 Comments.

I’m not really part of the Jasig CAS Community (learn more), but I do maintain the wpCAS WordPress CAS client and I’ve started development of a CAS server component for WordPress. That project is on hold because one of the products that I’d expected to integrate with it doesn’t use standard CAS and the vendor [...]

Posted April 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, authn, CAS, identity management, idm, single sign on, standards. Be the first one.

Atlassian’s Crowd SSO and IdM solution has the kind of online pricing you’d expect for word processing software. I don’t know if it’s any good, but it’s a sign that identity management getting boring.

Posted April 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: Atlassian Crowd, identity management, idm, single sign on, sso. One Comment.

Following news that Yahoo! is joining the OpenID fray, it appears Google is dipping a toe in too. While those two giants work out their implementations, others are raising the temperature of the debate on IDM solutions. Stefan Brands is among the OpenID naysayers (David Recordon’s response), while Scott Gillbertson sees a bright future. [...]

Posted January 19, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: google, identity, identity management, idm, openid, single sign on, sso. One Comment.

Ars notes that Yahoo! supports OpenID. Yeah, that OpenID.

Posted January 18, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: identity, identity management, idm, openid, single sign on, sso, yahoo. One Comment.