Updated: March 16, 2004
In a high-tech career spanning more than 25 years, Gordon Eubanks has been in the middle of the computing revolution from the days of the first PCs to the post-bubble era of Internet computing. After serving a president and CEO of Symantec for 15 years, Eubanks joined Oblix in 1999. In the last five years he has piloted Oblix from its start-up phase into one of the leading players delivering enterprise identity management and web access solutions. In our video interview, Eubanks explains how identity management -- single sign-on, authentication, and federated identity services -- is rapidly becoming a core platform rather than a peripheral capability for enterprises.

Eubanks sizes up the security challenge for enterprises
Webcast: "There is the problem of exclusion--keeping the bad guys out--and the problem of inclusion, which is how do I get all the right people into my systems and using the Internet to drive business across boundaries.” That's how Oblix CEO Gordon Eubanks sizes up the security challenge for enterprises. In this Face to Face interview, Eubanks gives ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber his prognosis for securing cyberspace, the challenges for federated identity and his views on the current outsourcing controversy.



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