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8/2/2008

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MarkO
Rank: Cave Painter
Tuesday August 19, 2008 10:13:24 AM
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RIA's are certainly excellent for delivering much more responsive and useful Web applications out to customers, remote salespeople, and suppliers.

But, right now most identity and security for RIA's is a case of "Roll Your Own". If an organization wants to control the usage of RIA's so that only known users can use them, or to protect them against content-level attack (of which there are many for Web 2.0), they generally try to figure this out themselves.This is a recipe for disaster.

Now, full disclosure, I do work for an XML Gateway vendor (Vordel) but hopefully it's useful to look at this screencast we put together about protecting RIA's (including authentication, threat blocking, rate limiting

Here is a blog entry on the subject of identity and security for RIA's (linking to the same screencast).

A follow-up article on "how can you safely deploy RIA's?" would be very interesting I think.

 

 

Rob Geier
Rank: Cave Painter
Friday August 8, 2008 5:39:06 PM
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Hi James,

Mark Schroeder, the CEO of Home and Abroad would be happy to arrange a demo for you.  He can be reached at  mark@homeandabroad.com. 

Best Regards,

Rob Geier

jepcastelein
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Friday August 8, 2008 3:42:04 PM
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The key example of this interesting article is Home & Abroad. I played around with the site for a while, and I was't impressed by their Itinerary editing tool. It uses faceted search, but it didn't work very well. Based on industry best practices I distilled the top 10 rules for good faceted search, and wrote about this on the customer engagement weblog. I hope this is a useful addition to this article.
jwallace
IQ Crew
Wednesday August 6, 2008 10:54:06 AM
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Hi Rob,

I read the story first here at IE, then saw it on the ('Big Screen') cover of Information Week. I get IW on Tuesday versus Mondays now so..I didn't realize how big of a report the BIG REPORT was.

Is the new on-demand web platform with the desktop-like environment enabling travel companies of all sizes to build company sites and have location-specific content currently available for a demo?

Thanks,

James Wallace

 

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