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Federated identity has long been a goal of many IT organizations. One look at the promise of federation, and it is easy to see why. After all, empowering one organization to serve as an identity provider for another frees IT from having to manage the identities of partnering organizations' employees and customers, thereby facilitating the pursuit of competitive-advantage projects. In this era of increasing enterprise decentralization, thanks in large part to the Web, establishing a federated identity framework is fast proving as essential as it is hard to pull off.

While half of the Australian workforce are using Instant Messaging (IM), less than 10 percent use it as an enterprise solution that is installed by IT staff.

A unique demonstration showed user-centric identity software from major vendors, start-ups, one-woman projects and open source hackers all working in concert to replace passwords with validated identity-card access to Web-based resources.

IBM on Wednesday announced its intent to acquire Internet Security Systems for US$1.3 billion in an all-cash deal expected to be completed by year-end.

Next to requirements, testing is the most overlooked, most under funded, most rushed, yet most critical aspect of the software development cycle. Here are 25 ways to boost the level of success.

It's time make serious strides towards protecting employees, assets, access and the corporate brand.