You can listen to and watch the recording the UMA explained webinar presented by Eve Maler and Paul Bryan from Kantara Initiative’s UMA WG. To benefit from the increasing number of services accessible over the Web, we’re forced to “hand over the data” — data that’s sensitive, valuable, and personal — and we end up paying a price in both privacy and convenience. The new User-Managed Access web protocol promises to help web users share their data more selectively using a central digital footprint dashboard, while helping websites get access to fresher and better-quality data when they need it.  This session reviews UMA benefits, progress to date, and next steps.

Kantara Initiative holds it’s annual identity workshop at the RSA Conference, March 1, 2010, 8am-5pm.  Gain state-of-identity insight through a series of presentations, panels & demonstrations of common Cloud/SaaS scenarios from diverse market leaders.

Title: Technology, Policy, and Compliance for Identity Services in 2010 & Beyond

What: Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop

When: Monday, March 1, 2010, 8:00am-5:00pm, Room 301

Where: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

2010 brings new opportunities for identity services in the enterprise & consumer markets. This workshop is designed to equip attendees with the vital information required to ensure success in employing the right identity management approach with the proper considerations. Recent developments in identity assurance, multi-protocol interoperability, liability models, usability, privacy-enablement and identity services certification will be spotlighted by key market leaders including Google, Oracle, CA, Aetna, NTT and Ping Identity.

Registration for the event has reached capacity.  Access will be granted to those who pre-registered.  We encourage you to arrive on Monday, March 1 and if we have not reached full room capacity will be be happy to have you join us.

Agenda:

8:00- 9:00	Visit demonstration pods featuring a variety of innovations & deployment scenarios from FuGen Solutions, NTT, Ping Idenity, U.S. Government.
9:00-9:40	Kantara Initiative – The Identity Ecosystem one year later: highlighting key industry and government initiatives in context and plain English. Trent Adams, Leadership Council Chair @ Kantara Initiative, Outreach Specialist, ISOC
9:40-10:20	PayPal – Who should be asking about your identity, how does this relate to your identity and do you have any say afterall? Andrew Nash, Senior Director, Identity Services, PayPal
10:20-10:30	Break
10:30-11:10	CA – Identity as Security Glue for the Cloud. Matthew Gardiner, Director of Product Marketing, CA & Chris Sharp, Director of Application Development, MEDecision
11:10-11:50	NTT – An overview of recent developments in some key identity protocols (SAML, OpenID, OAuth, IMI etc), and a discussion of opportunities for combining these protocols in interesting ways. Paul Madsen, Identity Management Researcher, NTT
11:50-1:10	Lunch Break with extra free time to visit demonstration pods
1:10-1:50	Ping Identity – How the Cloud is Changing Federated Identity Requirements. Patrick Harding, CTO, Ping Identity
1:50-2:30	Oracle Identity and security considerations in leveraging Cloud services – an enterprise perspective. Uppili Srinivasan, Senior Director Oracle Security and Identity
2:30-2:40	Break
2:40-3:20	Google – Business value of federated login for consumer websites, Enterprise SaaS vendors, and Enterprises. Eric Sachs, Product Manager Google Security & Chris Messina, Open Web Advocate.
3:20-4:00	Kantara Initiative – Identity Services Roadmap: A panel of market leaders from Healthcare, eGovernment, and Financial Services discuss the future of Identity Services. Moderated by Matthew Gardiner, VP of Kantara Initiative & Director of Product Marketing, CA Panelists: Mark Coderre, Head of Security Architecture at Aetna, Debbie Bucci, Integration Services Center Manager (NIH Login, Federaton, SOA), NIH – Center for Information Technology Division of Enterprise and Custom Applications & Todd Inskeep, SVP Authentication & Customer Protection Executive at Bank of America
4:00-5:00	Visit demonstration pods featuring a variety of innovations & deployment scenarios from FuGen Solutions, NTT, Ping Idenity, U.S. Government.

At the request of our friends to the north, we’re pleased to share this announcement from the Government of Canada. Here it is verbatim in both English and French. Note the reference to Kantara Initiative in the 3rd paragraph. We strongly endorse and recommend you participate in this consultation, if at all possible.

Please read the full announcement below. Also, for more information directly from the MERX site please visit: http://bit.ly/9GQ8Qq

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Government of Canada Industry Consultation on Cyber Authentication Renewal Program

Industry Consultation: February 16, 2010
Optional One-on-one Sessions: February 16 – 18, 2010
National Capital Region

In collaboration with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS), Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is inviting representatives of private-sector organizations to participate in consultations on the Cyber Authentication Renewal Program.

The Government of Canada (GC) is investigating solutions that would allow individuals the option of using their existing credentials in order to gain online access to government programs and services. This proposed approach would provide flexibility to both departments and agencies, and to individuals who access these services. It would allow departments and agencies to use credentials that are appropriate to the sensitivity of their service offerings, while allowing individuals to choose the credential they wish to use to access any online GC services.

The GC is considering basing its accreditation framework initially on the Kantara Initiative’s* Service Assessment Criterion and Assurance Assessment Scheme.

The GC is inviting industry organizations to participate in a consultation on February 16, 2010, to validate and refine its approach to electronic authentication, and to gather information on how it will solicit and accredit external credential service providers – using a federated model. The industry consultation will be followed by optional one-on-one sessions beginning the afternoon of February 16, 2010 and concluding by close of business February 18, 2010.

For further information, please send an email to ConsultationSPTI.ITSSConsultation@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca, or visit the event posting on MERX.

*The Kantara Initiative (http://kantarainitiative.org) is a group of individuals, developers, organizations, governments, and technology providers that, in 2009, amalgamated several long standing foundations and associations from the identity community. The goal of the Kantara Initiative is to harmonize and coordinate the actions of this community to help ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information.

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Consultations auprès de l’industrie sur le programme de renouvellement de l’authentification électronique du gouvernement du Canada

Consultations auprès de l’industrie : 16 février 2010
Séances individuelles facultatives : 16 au 18 février 2010
Région de la capitale nationale

Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada (TPSGC), en collaboration avec le Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor (SCT), invite les représentants des organisations du secteur privé à participer aux consultations sur le programme de renouvellement de l’authentification électronique.

Le gouvernement du Canada est à la recherche de solutions qui donneraient aux utilisateurs la possibilité d’utiliser leur justificatif existant afin d’accéder en ligne à des services et à des programmes gouvernementaux. Cette approche proposée offrirait de la flexibilité aux ministères, aux organismes et aux utilisateurs. Elle permettrait aux ministères et aux organismes d’utiliser des justificatifs appropriés en fonction de la sensibilité des services offerts, tout en permettant aux utilisateurs de choisir le justificatif qu’ils veulent utiliser pour accéder à tous les services gouvernementaux en ligne.

Le gouvernement du Canada envisage tout d’abord de fonder son cadre d’accréditation sur les Service Assessment Criterion (critères d’évaluation de service) et l’Assurance Assessment Scheme (programme d’évaluation de l’assurance) de l’initiative Kantara*.

Le gouvernement du Canada invite les organisations de l’industrie à participer à des consultations le 16 février 2010 pour valider et préciser son approche à l’égard de l’authentification électronique et pour recueillir des renseignements sur la manière dont le gouvernement sollicitera et accréditera les fournisseurs externes de services de justificatifs en utilisant un modèle fédéré. Les consultations menées auprès de l’industrie seront suivies de séances individuelles facultatives qui commenceront le 16 février 2010 en après-midi et se termineront à la fermeture des bureaux le 18 février 2010.

Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements, envoyez un courriel à l’adresse ConsultationSPTI.ITSSConsultation@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca, ou visitez le site du MERX pour l’annonce d’évènements.

*L’initiative Kantara (http://kantarainitiative.org)est un regroupement de gens, de développeurs, d’organismes, de gouvernements et de fournisseurs de technologie qui, en 2009, a fusionné plusieurs fondations et associations de longue date de la communauté d’identité. L’objectif de l’initiative Kantara est d’harmoniser et de coordonner les actions de cette communauté pour faire en sorte que les interactions en ligne sont sécuritaires et basées sur l’identité en plus de prévenir l’utilisation malveillante des renseignements personnels.
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