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April 23, 2013
Experian joins Kantara Initiative Board taking a Key Role in delivering Open, Secure, and Privacy-Respecting Identity Management Solutions
April 23, 2013, Piscataway, NJ – Kantara Initiative, a global identity initiative community, announced today that Experian has become a member of the Kantara Initiative Board of Trustees. Experian joins Kantara Board Members from CA, Internet Society, Nomura Research Institute, Terena and Government of Canada to help drive the strategic direction of Kantara Initiative. Kantara more…
February 27, 2013
Kantara Initiative Board of Trustees Elects President Allan Foster, Leadership Council Trustee Liaison and ForgeRock VP
February 27 2013, Piscataway, NJ – Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce Allan Foster, Leadership Council Trustee Liaison and of ForgeRock, has been elected Kantara Initiative Board of Trustees President by his peers. The Kantara Board of Trustees serves to provide organizational fiscal oversight, certification and approval authority, and to jointly steer the organization governance more…
February 20, 2013
Non-Profits on the Loose @ RSA
February 26th from 5-8pm @ Minna Gallery, come join Kantara and our partners at the “Non-Profits On the Loose” RSA hospitality night using your RSA badge or the invite below. Rub elbows and break bread with some of the coolest non-profit leaders in the cybersecurity and Identity Management spaces. Kantara extends gratitude to our generous more…
January 30, 2013
European Trust and Identity Workshop: Feb 12-13
Kantara Initiative supports the European Trust and Identity Workshop event as part of ongoing activities to build shared infrastructure, value, and experience to Identity and Access Management systems. As a Trust Framework Provider and operator, Kantara Initiative has strong interest to ensure that internet identity systems are developed transparently and in a multi-stakeholder environment. European more…
January 14, 2013
Kantara Initiative to Appear at HIMSS13
Kantara Initiative is proud to support this annual event that helps HIT professionals make the right decisions for their organizations. As part of our support for the event Kantara Initiative will host a discussion on-site Tuesday March 5th, 3:30 to 6:30 to focus on: Trust and Assurance Workshop: NIST 800-63 Equivalent, Identity Credentialing, Authentication and Identity more…
January 11, 2013
IAWG – Separating Token and Attribute Manager Functions
On Nov 30 Kantara held a “Trusted ID” F2F meeting in Washington DC to talk strictly Assurance and alignment with Government based AuthN requirements like that of NIST 800-63 and ISO 29115. We should make clear that, for Kantara, “Government alignment” is not a US initiative but a global initiative. We believe that digital identity more…
December 4, 2012
Kantara Testimony to ONC HITSC – Nov 29
Kantara had the honor to participate in a public testimony hearing for the US Government “Trusted Identity of Patients in Cyberspace Hearing – Policy: P&STT and the HITSC Privacy & Security Workgroup.” While the actually speaking time was ~5 minutes, the Kantara full testimony is posted below and all the panel testimonies are posted here. more…
November 20, 2012
NOV 30th KI Meeting – Gov-Industry Gaps in Requirements | Component Services IDPV&CM
Registration for the Nov 30 Kantara meeting is now open. Please join us – space is limited. Join us for the Kantara Initiative Trusted Identity meeting hosted by Kantara Member Experian. Rationale: Attend this meeting to be part of innovative and leading expert discussions regarding Authentication policies and technologies, verification and trust. Ensure that your more…
October 19, 2012
Kantara presents at APWG, OAS and ICANN eCrime event
Kantara will be present at the APWG eCrime event discussing Federation use cases which address fraud. A write up for the event is below. If you’ll be at the event please join us. We are looking forward to an excellent week connecting identity use cases and solutions which can help address and reduce instances of more…







