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WORLD TOP PERSONS
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Jamie Lewis, CEO, Burton Group: Jamie is always at the top of his game; staying on top of
identity trends. In addition, he and Craig Burton wrote the
original whitepaper outlining the concept of a
“meta-directory” - which essentially gave birth to the
identity industry.
Kim Cameron, Architect for
Identity, Microsoft: Besides building a
meta-directory that Microsoft bought (now Active Directory),
Kim started the “Laws of Identity” conversation that has
resulted in InfoCards in Vista, and multiple conversations
around “user-centric” identity.
Sara Gates, VP of Identity, Sun
Microsystems: I’m pinpointing Sara, but this is
really aimed at the entire Waveset team (which was acquired
by Sun). That acquisition (and the people that came with it)
was a turning point in Sun’s identity management business.
Michael Barrett, ex-President of
The Liberty Alliance: Michael shepherded Liberty
through its early years and represents all of that early,
hard work that came out of Liberty and directly contributed
to SAML2.0 - which became a point of convergence that
accelerated all federated identity initiatives.
OASIS, standards body: Alright, so its not really a person, but when a standard
comes out of OASIS (be it WS-Security or SAML) it gets
traction, and identity would not be where it is today
without them.
Mike Beach, Boeing: Mike
was one of the earliest adopters of SAML, but that’s not why
Mike is on this list. Mike is here to represent all of the
engineers working inside of the enterprise that slave away
day after day trying to make all of this identity “stuff”
work.
Regulators and Legislators: Again, not a single person, but a group of people.
Whether its the FFIEC (with their guidance for online
authentication in a banking or brokerage context), or
Congress (with the requirements of SOX and GLB), these folks
drive identity technology forward, even if unknowingly.
The “little guys”: By
“little guys,” I mean all of the smaller companies and
developers that are out there innovating in one way or
another. This list is long (and this is not inclusive): Sxip,
Johannes Ernst, A10, Identity Engines, Trusted Network
Technologies, Applied Identity, InfoExpress, Prodigen….it
goes on and on.
The Kid in Nebraska: He’s probably 17 or 18, and he doesn’t know it yet, but he’s
going to come up with the identity *application* that the
entire world adopts.
The Readers of Digital ID World: Okay, this is as much a “thank you” as anything. We’ve been
doing this since 2002, and without our readers (vendors,
enterprises and individuals) we wouldn’t know anything.
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