Security - We will get there

From RSA blog Top Five Intriguing Ideas for Authentication in 2008

There are a plethora of identity standards, frameworks and other initiatives including OpenID, CardSpace, Higgins and others. These have largely been relevant to low dollar transactions and activities for consumers. There is starting to be a bleed into the enterprise because consumers also work for companies. Organizations are being faced with heterogeneity when dealing with federation anyway, so adopting identity standards is just another way to exchange information. Vendors like Microsoft are starting to enable applications like SharePoint. There will be funded projects in 2008 in which marrying various forms of authentication to identity will start to make economic sense to security vendors rather than just be of a technical interest.