It has been almost a year since my last post. During this period, I haven’t had a lot of time for things like the blog, and this was a big mistake for various reasons. One of these being that since Engiweb Security is an engineering-focused organization that has not given a lot of attention to marketing, this blog can (among other IdM related considerations) try to support efforts to raise its profile and properly position Engiweb Security in the marketplace.
While I was gone, there have been a number of notable movements in the market, and many of the latest announcements involve IAM: Oracle swallowing up SUN, Gartner taking over Burton Group, etc…
In the meantime it looks like the Role Management bandwagon is as hot as when I started neglecting this blog months ago.
Furthermore, Engiweb Security is in the process of better positioning its offer in order to avoid possible miscommunications or challenges to our potential clients.
In a week or so, I’ll post a blog about the evolution of IDEAS (our Identity &Access Governance solution) and our latest partnership deals.
I also still plan on posting articles about current IdM debates. For instance, I find the ABAC-RBAC heated debate very exciting, and it still arouses my curiosity. BTW why are they still using the “Role Explosion” hackneyed and false excuse to justify that RBAC is not usable?
Anyway… back to us! For now, the Engiweb team has published new academic papers for the security community, describing the conceptual model used in the IDEAS solution in detail.
- A. Colantonio, R. Di Pietro, A. Ocello, and N. V. Verde. “Taming Role Mining Complexity in RBAC”. Computers & Security, Challenges for Security, Privacy & Trust (special issue), Elsevier, 2010.
- A. Colantonio, R. Di Pietro, A. Ocello, and N. V. Verde. “ABBA: Adaptive Bicluster-Based Approach to Impute Missing Values in Binary Matrices”. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC '10, Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010.
- A. Colantonio, R. Di Pietro, A. Ocello, and N. V. Verde. “A Formal Framework to Elicit Roles with Business Meaning in RBAC Systems”. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT '09, Stresa, Italy, June 2009.
