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…
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…
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…
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…
More and more we are being asked about Katnara Initiative, Identity Assurance, and our Accreditation and Approval program. So we’re pleased to let our readers know that Kantara was recently featured in the fall 2012 issue of SecureID News, RegardingID magazine. We’d like to thank the all of the great people at Regarding ID for more…
2012-09-27, Piscataway, NJ – Kantara Initiative is proud to announce that Zygma LLC is the latest Kantara-Accredited Assessor able to perform Kantara Service Assessments at Assurance Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4. The Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) provides a means to enable relying parties to understand the trustworthiness of electronic identity credentials issued at commonly-agreed more…
26 July 2012, Piscataway, NJ – Kantara Initiative announces the Recognition of Experian Precise ID as an Identity Proofing service component recognized for performance of Identity Proofing services at Assurance Levels 2 and 3. The Kantara Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program assesses applicants against its strict criteria ensuring, among other things, alignment with the more…
July 10, 2012, Piscataway, NJ – Kantara Initiative is proud to announce that Europoint is now a Kantara-Accredited Assessor with the ability to perform Kantara Service Assessments at Assurance Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4. Europoint is approved to perform Kantara Assessments in the jurisdictions of Sweden and Europe. With this Accreditation, Kantara and Europoint more…
In May 2012, I attended the Experian Vision Conference. This conference is produced by Experian with attendance from their customers, partners and relying party services. It was a unique opportunity to speak to representatives who are stakeholders in trusted identity services communities – but not necessarily the same stakeholders that often in attend identity management more…