Was just reading an article on Wired Magazine http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/ discussing that the web is dead.  This is my point of view on how our use of the internet has evolved:

Almost after a year of general public release, Google announced that it is stopping all development on Googlewave Announcement on 4th August

Attended Burton (now acquired by Gartner) Catalyst 2010 in San Diego, an excellent forum to get upto speed on what is happening in technology world in terms of standards and trends.

Paradigm shifts:
* Pushing core to the outside
* How SAAS, HIAS, PAAS, have provided capabilities to the industry in terms of scalability. Users pay only what they need. * Stop wasting platform resources by leveraging virtualization
* Chaning views on how Identities should be managed
* Writing applications that are cloud aware and are able to co-exist on a platform

Google recently released Googlewave.

I tried and it looks more like mix of email, blog, and IM.

The other catch is that it required the other users also have a google account to start using this capability. One more attempt by Google to gain more user base.

As for how secure the information is while hosted at Google, it probably gets stored for unlimited period of time and eventually becomes Google property.

Will post more after playing with it amongst my friends and see if it really makes sense or is just another nice to have shiny toy with a very short lifespan.

VOIP technology always intrigued me, so I decided that the only was to learn about it was try it out. So started surfing the web and some of the first searches on VIOP providers brought me to:

VOIP.MS: http://www.voip.ms

Callcentric: http://www.callcentric.com

I immediately created accounts as it does not cost any thing to create one, still was not sure what I was doing.

They were throwing terms like DID (Direct Inward Dial) and Termination.

DID is an incoming line which is assigned a phone number

The primary function of a cloud-based federation service is to authenticate users and facilitate SSO to business applications. Providers that play in this space are:
* Arcot Systems
* Clavid
* Cloud Identity
* FuGen Solutions
* Gluu
* Ping Identity
* ProtectNetwork
* SSOCircle
* Symplified
* TriCipher

Project Dogtag is an opensource version of Red Hat Certificate Server. It was released to public in late March, 2008, installs on Fedora8

From installation perspective a very straightforward install.

1. Installed Fedora8, default options
2. Followed instructions on http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page
3. I did not choose to compile, rather opted for compiled version
4. Installed the pre-requisites as the instructions on wiki said
5. Then proceeded with the instructions
6. Up and running in about 2 hours.

I would say try it out, and start using it.

• Dumpster diving - Searching through trash and recycling bins for personal information such as credit card statements, purchase recripts and income tax papers.
• Shoulder surfing - Confidential information such as your PIN or password can be stolen by ID theives who can look over your shoulder at and ABM or POS Terminal, or when you use a public computer, your laptop, your Blackberry or other devices in public places

• ISACA
• COBIT WIKI

Some References for ISO

• Yahoo Group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iso-27001/message/281
• ISO27001 certification process: http://www.27000.org/ismsprocess.htm
• THe ISO 27000 Directory: http://www.27000.org/index.htm
• ISO Standards Translated into plain english: http://www.praxiom.com/