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Liberty Alliance demos technology
News Proponents of the Liberty Alliance Project, a group developing online identity standards, provided details on Tuesday of their Phase Two specifications and demonstrated new features. In one, led by Communicator, an employee was allowed access to...
[April 16, 2003, 9:57]
Web services' reach extended
News The Liberty Alliance has released the second version of its standards for identity verification for Web services. The update aims to make it easier to communicate identity information with software based on other, open Web services standards, such...
[February 14, 2005, 8:35]
Seven new members for Liberty Alliance
News Liberty Alliance, a far-reaching body working on identity standards for Web services, has signed up seven new members. Web services require identity verification for benefits such as single sign-on and while the Liberty Alliance already boasts a...
[October 18, 2004, 15:55]
Federated Identity Management: An Overview of Single Sign-On Standards
White Papers At one point, federated identity management suffered from an unusual problem: too many standards initiatives. This webcast explores the history of identity federation, early efforts to address multiple use cases, and the consolidation of those...
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
Oracle proposes safe-data standards
News The proposed standards, dubbed the Identity Governance Framework, would let companies apply privacy and security controls to information as it moves from one business application to another. The IGF complements work on identity-related standards...
[November 30, 2006, 8:06]
Identity management could backfire, analysts warn
News Companies deploying an identity-management infrastructure may save money in the short term, but analysts warn that they might find themselves on the wrong side of a standards war that would cancel their original gains.
[July 11, 2003, 10:09]
Web Services Security for WSRP OracleAS Portal 10.1.4
White Papers The WSRP specification explicitly defers to other security standards for secure identity propagation. The Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) specification indicates that Web Services Security (WS-Security) may be leveraged for providing secure...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
IBM calls for global identity management solution
News Beyond different governments "trying to create a mosaic for what they want as good identity management", wider international cooperation is needed to establish a common language and standards, said Cal Slemp, vice-president and global leader for...
[November 10, 2005, 8:45]
Identity Federation
White Papers Identity federation and the industry standards that comprise it were invented to address this cross domain, application interoperability challenge. This paper introduces and defines identity federation; the benefits that companies can reap by...
[January 25, 2006, 0:01]
IBM releases ID management tools
News Last October, at the urging of a client, IBM joined Liberty Alliance, an Internet security consortium that's developing industry standards for verifying a person's identity when he or she accesses Web sites.
[May 9, 2005, 9:10]
Tech giants back ID interoperability project
News The project, which has been in the making for a year, is dedicated to examining ways of improving interoperability between different identity technologies and standards. The same situation has led to a proliferation of identity technologies and...
[June 18, 2009, 17:09]
Liberty Alliance seeks open-source adoption
News Liberty Alliance was formed in 2001 to develop standards for online verification of identity. The idea behind OpenLiberty is to provide a community for open-source developers to communicate and collaborate on open identity standards," Jason Roualt...
[January 23, 2007, 9:40]
Unisys defends ID cards scheme
News The report also revealed that the government had no clear data-management standards for the National Identity Register, the proposed database that, according to the government, will hold all UK citizens' identity details securely.
[May 12, 2008, 11:13]
Open encryption to combat spam and phishing
News The US federal government has been working for years to develop standards, procedures and guidelines for implementing e-identity management services that can ensure trusted, secure transactions over the internet.
[May 25, 2007, 16:21]
Microsoft extends ID management
News On Tuesday Microsoft will display software that lets customers sign in to a Web site and then take their identity with them as they browse the Web to other federated sites, a representative said. The technology, which won't be available until the...
[May 25, 2004, 8:45]
Novell emphasises open-source commitment
News To show its commitment to ongoing standards efforts, Novell said on Monday that it will release the code for its Nsure identity management software to the standards group that handles the UDDI standard.
[April 16, 2003, 10:19]
Sun 'won't abandon' open-source lobby
News Sun and Microsoft now have a way to work together to prevent schisms such as the fight over digital identity and authentication standards with Passport from Microsoft or Liberty, from Sun and several partners.
[April 7, 2004, 8:45]
Sun takes on Passport with hardware
News Sun's Platform for Network Identity comes in two versions. Network identity is the crucial underpinning for Web services. The system can be used as a standalone authentication and identity system or as a front end to an existing system, Schwartz said.
[March 12, 2002, 10:05]
IBM revamps WebSphere
News More security standards are under way to make federated identity management easier to use. Tivoli Access Manager will work with Kerberos and the XML (Extensible Markup Language)-based Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), which are two systems...
[November 7, 2003, 15:05]
US court backs right to free speech on Web
News The only law connected to this issue is the Electronic Communications Act, which sets out the standards for the government to request a person's identity from an Internet service. While Thursday's decision limits the types of people who can have...
[April 23, 2001, 9:41]
