Nishant Kaushik

It's been a long time since I have been able to post. A lot conspired to make it difficult for me to keep up with my blogging, not the least of which has been a number of interesting, but under... Nishant Kaushik

The last 3 months or so has been really good to my work defining our vision for Identity Services. I've gotten valuable input from my colleagues in the IdM business, and my participation in Project Fusion and Burton's Identity Services... Nishant Kaushik

A college student was arraigned on Wednesday for allegedly breaking into Gov. Sarah Palin's private e-mail account last month. Political leanings aside, I  read the news article with great interest for the inherent security implications. Reading it, this line jumped... Nishant Kaushik

One of the big buzzwords this past month or so has been "Identity Assurance". Liberty Alliance made a big push for the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF)at DIDW last month, conducting a number of sessions/workshops introducing it to the masses.... Nishant Kaushik

Boy, it was an exhausting September. There was a lot going on between work, Digital ID World, Oracle OpenWorld and the Burton Identity Services Working Group. Unfortunately, this left me little time to write on this blog. But hopefully all... Nishant Kaushik

I was hoping to find some time to dig a little deeper into some of the themes, conversations and ideas that were floating around the halls at DIDW last week. Unfortunately, time was not a luxury I had this week.... Nishant Kaushik

My Digital ID World was all about conversations. Much more useful to me than the sessions was the opportunity to brainstorm with some very smart, very committed (some insanely so) people in the identity community. The sessions were good,... Nishant Kaushik

This week I was invited to join Brenda Hughes from Cisco on next weeks DIDW panel discussing "Lessons learned from Successful Compliance Deployments". My hope is to share some of the insight I obtained from watching (at uncomfortably close... Nishant Kaushik

Dave Kearns recently took on the topic of how user-centric and enterprise-centric identity could possibly co-exist in his articles for the Network World Identity Management Newsletter. In his first post, he discussed what the difference between the two is - ... Nishant Kaushik

The annual Digital ID World conference is coming up (September 8 - 10) in Anaheim. DIDW is usually a blast, as a number of folks from the identity arena show up at the conference to connect, exchange ideas and... Nishant Kaushik

In response to my post about the lag in OpenID RP adoption, Mark Workel asked the following questions: 1. What are the strategic advantages of becoming an IdP? 2. As a consumer or RP, how do I know if an... Nishant Kaushik

UPDATE (August 27, 2008): I have updated the blog post to avoid violating certain copyright issues with Gartner Gartner has released their latest Magic Quadrant on User Provisioning. It's good to see that we have built on our previous success... Nishant Kaushik

Gartner has released their latest Magic Quadrant on User Provisioning. It's good to see that we have built on our previous success to become "the leader in this Magic Quadrant". I can remember the days at Thor when we... Nishant Kaushik