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A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity by John Henry Clippinger
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
NewsSaw this update posted on Techweb…gotta love the one-two punch of an unfunded mandate and broad privacy concerns.
…Last week, Washington became the fourth state to pass legislation opposing the Real ID Act. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, one of 600 groups opposed to the federal law, Arkansas and Idaho have passed similar legislation. Maine pioneered the states’ revolt against Real ID. Here’s the article.
MARCH 7, 2007 | Novell and Honeywell this month will announce the first fruits of their exclusive logical/physical security partnership — a turnkey product that integrates Novell’s identity management and Honeywell’s physical access control system. No, this doesn’t signal the end of facilities management, or even a merger the physical and logical security departments in the organization. But it may be a hint of things to come, as regulatory and insider-threat pressures gradually start bringing together these traditionally separate, and very different, worlds. (See The 10 Most Overlooked Aspects of Security.) Novell and Honeywell were initially drawn together by the federal government’s HSPD-12 initiative for smart cards.