In our continuing series on identification standards, Joni Brennan, managing director at Kantara Initiative, fills Regarding ID listeners in on the organization’s interoperability certification and identity assurance programs. Kantara is trying to bring some unity to the various identification standards efforts underway across the globe.

In another of a series of podcasts investigating identity standards, Kevin Gillick, executive director at GlobalPlatform, talks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the standards landscape and the role it plays.

The August meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

The OASIS standards consortium has formed a new committee to look at security in the cloud. OASIS Identity in the Cloud (IDCloud) Technical Committee was formed to address the growing difficulties the cloud computing systems are facing in terms of secure identity management.