Privacy

A leading trade association criticized the Federal Trade Commission this week for forcing nine insurance companies to hand over information about how they set credit-based insurance scores.

A former employee of the U.S. Department of State was sentenced for unauthorized access to a database containing passport applicants' confidential information.

A simulation this week demonstrated the need for better collaboration among public and private security groups.

A gap in security exits for applications that help enable collaboration among employees, such as intranet portals and content management systems, a recent study found.

Bradford Networks is no stranger to these pages. An innovator from last year, Bradford has been reviewed a num­ber of times over the years, always doing well. This year we asked them how well their crystal ball last year worked as 2008 unfolded.

Here is another vendor that we see a lot of in our labs. Passlogix knows who it is and concentrates on doing what it does as well as it can be done. And what they do is credential management.

Start with the recognition that identity management is just too hard to do, cre­ate a solution for that problem and then morph it into a successful service and you have the recipe for a real innovator.

What sets these guys apart from the multifactor herd? In a word, vision. From the start, TriCipher has had the vision of evolving into a full identity management provider. That is a pretty heady ambition for a developer of multifactor authentication tools. So how does this innovator plan to make the trip from providing a piece of the puzzle to offering the whole thing, already assembled, framed and hung on the wall?