Research on Security and Identity Management

The time has come to update the topic (and focus) of this blog.

In the last few years my R&D work and research at HP Labs has been involving a variety of aspects, including security, identity management and privacy.

Most of my posts have actually been reflecting this – hence my decision to update my blog. Hope this will further increase the community of people that are interested and follow my blog.

--- Posted by Marco Casassa Mont (here and here) ---

--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---

New W3C PLING General Phone Call – 14 October 2009, 12:00 UTC

The next W3C Policy Language Interest Group (PLING) general meeting is going to happen on October, 14th – 12:00 UTC.

Topics to be discussed include: (1) Best practices for privacy awareness; (2) web policy language working group proposal.

Please consider attending.

--- Posted by Marco Casassa Mont (here and here) ---


--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---

Article – Phishing or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits

This article, called Phishing or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits, by Elinor Mills, is quite interesting.

It is not a novelty the fact that there are bad practices when dealing with passwords – but it is also true that people are usually good at making risk assessments and judge which level of protection to choose, depending on the value of the asset to protect …

--- Posted by Marco Casassa Mont (here and here) ---

--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---