HP Identity Center

HP has recently announced the creation of the “HP Identity Center”:
“HP Identity Center helps you to optimise and automate the management of people, processes, security and compliance. HP Identity Center is a comprehensive identity and access management solution. The center helps you to reduce costs, improve user experience and productivity, and improve compliance by optimizing identity and access management processes to meet business needs. Identity Center’s unique features help mitigate the impact from ongoing change that occurs in user, IT and business lifecycles, improving efficiency, productivity, security and compliance.”
This is a good sign. I believe this is a further recognition of the strategic role that “Identity Management” has for enterprises and users and a statement about its importance for HP.
As an HP Labs researcher, one of my challenges is going to contribute to the medium-long term strategy and evolution of this HP Identity Center, with the outcome of some HP Labs R&D projects (and also with new projects currently under exploration in the space of Enterprise 2.0/Identity 2.0), including:

• Privacy Policy Enforcement and Privacy-aware Access Control
• Privacy-aware Identity Information Lifecycle Management
• Liberty Alliance Identity Capable Platforms and Provisioning Services
• Accountable Identity Management and Sticky Policies