So Catalyst is winding down. And as usual a good time was had by all.
A couple of notable quotes from the week:
- Jim Heaton – Architect systems so they fail like escalators, not elevators.
- Bob Blakley – PKI as slow motion failure
- Mitch Hamilton – If you’re gonna be dumb, you’ve got to be tough.
- Bob (again) – Depending on a secret builds risk.
- Jonathan Schwartz – Eventually, I’ll run my ERP system on a BlackBerry.
As for thoughts on the Catalyst content… There was still a lot of conversation around user-centric identity. I think Bob’s comparison of new and old school identity systems, which nicely compared federation to user-centric identity, was an excellent primer. Personally, if they had stopped with just that presentation, I would have been happy and not needed anything else on the topic.
Having heard a few presentations on fine grained authorization, I still am trying to figure out the root cause behind it all. I’m unclear of what is really driving people to expose their applications’ authorization models. I think, and this is just my speculation, that cause behind this is that user provisioning systems have done a relatively poor job in managing entitlements. Am I on the right path here?
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