Bill Nelson

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Advice to CIOs for High Exposure Projects

I read an article in CIO Magazine about the plight of today’s CIOs when multi-million dollar multi-year projects go awry. The article entitled “The CIO Scapegoat” indicates that..

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Opinions About the Federal Government’s Identity Initiative

Interesting read. This is essentially a WebSSO initiative with authentication based on CAC type ID cards or OpenID.

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Book Review: Digital Identity

Digital Identity by Phillip J. Windley See this book on Amazon » Bill has read this book Recommend This is a clear, consise, and easy to read book on IDM and DRM. I recommend it..

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Identity Management Lessons from Sarah Palin

By now, many of you have already heard about the hacking of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account earlier this week (on or about Tuesday 9/16/2008). If not, here is a..

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Directory Servers vs Relational Databases

An interesting question was posed on LinkedIn that asked, “If you were the architect of LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook or other social networking sites and wanted to model the..

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