Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Kantara Initiative delivers new insights at Burton Catalyst Conference 2010

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

An Open Identity for Business Interopability demonstration and an Authorization Standards Workshop will take place in San Diego at the Burton Catalyst event on July 27.

Businesses are faced with more options and decisions when it comes to addressing secure identity solutions. The event comes from the Kantara Initiative, an open forum allowing secure identity software users to divulge the existing challenges of the industry. Collaborarors include the OpenID Foundation, the Information Card Foundation, the Open Identity Exchange and Identity Commons.


These participants will host the Business Interop which will showcase open identity as a business enabler, drawing examples from different levels of assurance across multiple trust federations, new browser-based applications that use identity services to automate cross-site user experiences, and the newest mobile applications available.

Additionally Kantara is heading the Authorization Standards Workshop, which will explore the most current developments and trends in identity authorization, such as OAuth, User-Managed Access, and XACML. [end] 

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.

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BIO-key International has announced it will be releasing their first biometric identification and authentication platform secure transmission of captured fingerprint data to a secure server via smart phones, laptops and desktops.

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In effort to develop more secure online transaction services, Kantara and the Open Identity Exchange have introduced their most recent collaborative effort in online trust ecosystems.

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In the third part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with J. Trent Adams, chair of the Kantara Initiative Leadership Council. In his day job Adams is Outreach Specialist for the Internet Society working on Trust & Identity Initiative.

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The Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program has awarded its first accreditation to eValid8. The company is an IT auditing firm in the field of identity management, IT auditing, privacy impact assessment, and regulatory compliance.

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Dates: November 16-17, 2010

Location: Boston, MA

Venue: Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

URL: http://www.IDTechEx.com/Boston

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