Microsoft Monday unveiled Windows CardSpace, a user-centric identity technology that was formerly called InfoCard. CardSpace is the name the technology will carry when the Vista client operating ...

For a while now, I’ve touted Windows Vista to my enterprise IT readers of the Windows Networking newsletter. One of the main reasons for doing so is the introduction of the .Net 3.0 framework. And one ...

With the Vista launch behind him, Bill Gates and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer and security patron, were on stage the 16th annual RSA Conference in San Francisco before ...

An earlier identity management system from Microsoft that never caught on. Built into Windows Vista and 7 and available for XP, Microsoft coined the term "identity metasystem" for an Internet identity ...

Microsoft announced during last week’s RSA conference that it would not be shipping Windows CardSpace 2.0. A lot of design imperatives weighed on that one deliverable: security, privacy, usability, ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Arcot Systems Inc., a leading provider of risk-based authentication, strong authentication, digital signing, and secure ePayment solutions, today announced the first-to-market ...

Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 is now shipping but Microsoft postponed the release of CardSpace 2.0, putting its future in doubt. The current CardSpace is built into Windows 7 and Vista but ...

An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain patent-related issues. Developers working on the Higgins project want ...

An earlier open-source implementation of the identity metasystem conceived by Microsoft and embodied in Microsoft's CardSpace. Unlike the Windows-only CardSpace, Higgins supported other operating ...

Microsoft's chief identity architect disputes that CardSpace technology can be hacked, calling researchers' scenario unlikely in a real attack Microsoft is disputing that its CardSpace authentication ...