Press Releases

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…

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…

User-Managed Access for Higher Education: UMA Enables Secure, Private College Transcript Sharing

Kantara Initiative announces revision 5 of the User-Managed Access (UMA) protocol and a free public webinar on October 17 about UMA’s benefits for higher education data sharing. PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA – October 11, 2012 – Valuable personal data about us resides in dozens of different web locations, and we frequently contend with the challenges of more…

Kantara Initiative announces Zygma LLC as the latest Kantara-Accredited Assessor

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…

Kantara Initiative Awards Recognition at Assurance Levels 2 and 3 to Experian Identity Proofing Service Component Precise ID

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…

Reinventing the Web, One Site at a Time: New label helps people make smarter decisions about information we share online.

May 2, 2012 Mountain View, California – At this week’s Internet Identity Workshop, Kantara Initiative’s Information Sharing Work Group (http://InformationSharingWorkGroup.org) released a proposed Standard Information Sharing Label designed to help people understand how the information we share online gets used. The label replaces confusing legalese typically buried in multi-page Terms of Service agreements with clear, more…

Kantara Initiative announces Electrosoft as the latest Kantara-Accredited Assessor

April 18, 2012, Piscataway, NJ – Kantara Initiative is proud to announce that Electrosoft 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 more…

Kantara Initiative grants Accreditation to Deloitte & Touche LLP, and, eValid8, and Approves Verizons Universal Identity Service at LoA3

Dec. 5, 2011 Piscataway, NJ – Kantara Initiative announces the accreditation of two assessors, Deloitte & Touche LLP [1] and eValid8 [2], who are now qualified to perform assessments for the Kantara Identity Assurance Framework for both the Identity Credential and Access Management (ICAM) and non-ICAM Trust Frameworks. Additionally, Kantara Initiative announced the first high more…

Kantara Initiative – the first Approved US ICAM LoA 1, 2, and 3 non-PKI Trust Framework Provider

Piscataway, NJ – November 1, 2011: The Kantara Initiative announced today the final approval of their Trust Framework Provider (TFP) program as the only Approved US Government TFP certifying Levels of Assurance (LoA) 1, 2 and 3 non-crypto (non-PKI) [1]. This announcement follows the recent Office Management Budget (OMB) memo to US Chief Information Officers more…

Announcing User-Managed Access: UMA Gives Data-Sharing Power to the People

Kantara Initiative has announced the release of a Draft Recommendation for the User-Managed Access (UMA) protocol. UMA heralds a new era of user-centric access control for web-based applications such as social networking sites, content-sharing portals, and personal clouds. PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA – July 7, 2011 – As we spend more time online, our data becomes more…

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