Microsoft has acquired Canadian cryptography specialist Credentica. This news sees Microsoft reverting back to its more traditional approach of acquiring small (Credentica is a team of three) specialist technology vendors to plug very specific...

Hot on the heels of last week's acquisition of Credentica by Microsoft, Ping Identity (who I covered here in an On The Radar report) announced yesterday that it has acquired the Sxip Access business unit from Sxip Identity. Sxip was early to...

... you're waiting for an identity management acquisition and then along come three at once. This time it's IBM which has acquired 40-person, privately-held Encentuate. If you think that Encentuate's size is indicative of gap-filling motivations...