When: October 7, 2010, 8:00-8:45am PDT

Where: Your computer

Description:
Within the last decade, we’ve seen a of number changes to the way we bank, furthermore the rate of data consumption has increased immensely, not mentioning the sharing mechanisms associated with web 2.0 technologies delivered in a mobile operating system. How is authentication and security adapting to meet the needs of the consumer and address these changes in behavior? Engage live to ask real time questions and take part in the live audience polls to shape the direction of the discussion.

Presenters:
Joni Brennan – Kantara Initiative
Paul Rivett – CNET Training
Mohammed Jouied – ActivIdentity
Richard Steinnon – IT Harvest

Invite link: http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/23152

Join a great lineup of thought leaders & industry professionals at BrightTALK’s free, online Authentication Summit on October 7, 2010. The live, vendor-neutral, interactive webcasts will cover the new threats to authentication and the impact of emerging technologies like mobile and online banking, web applications, email, etc. They will also look into new tools to meet the new demands for user authentication, as well as best practices on finding the right balance and the appropriate level of authentication for your organization.

REGISTER: http://www.brighttalk.com/r/SHf

WHEN: Thursday, October 7, 2010, attend live online throughout the day or afterward on-demand at your convenience

TOPICS AND PRESENTERS:
“Identity Assurance in Everyday Life” – 9am PDT
Frank Villavicencio, EVP, Identropy & Chair of Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Work Group

“Authentication and Strong Authentication in Web Applications”
Sylvain Maret, Authentication Evangelist & Swiss Chapter Leader, OpenID

“Identity and Access Management in the Real World: Getting it Done”
Jonathan Sandar, Identity and Security Analyst, Quest Software

“Balance between Security and Convenience”
Rachael Stockton, Principal Product Marketing Manager, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

“Privileged Access Management and the Cloud Drive Innovation”
Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest

“Meeting New Demands for User Authentication”
Steven Furnell, Head of School of Computing, Plymouth University

Review the full schedule and register to attend any or all of the free summit webcasts at http://www.brighttalk.com/r/SHf

You will be able to attend any or all of the presentations, submit real-time questions to presenters, and vote in audience polls. If you are unable to attend the webcasts live, you can also view them afterward on-demand.

• Kantara Initiative Meeting, October 19-21, 2010 at Orange-FT campus, Paris, France
• Kantara Initiative Announces Today Fifth Annual IDDY Awards Recognizing Achievement in Identity Management
• OpenID Summit Paris, October 18, 2010 hosted by Orange-FT
• Kantara Initiative Symposium 2010, September 1, 2010, Tokyo, Japan
• Kantara Initiative and Open Identity Exchange Announce Collaboration to Grow Trust Framework Adoption
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego

Piscataway, NJ, 14 September, 2010 – Kantara Initiative announced today its fifth Annual Identity Deployment of the Year (IDDY) Awards event which will take place at the 2011 RSA Conference in San Francisco on February 14. Formerly awarded by the Liberty Alliance, the IDDY Awards is the identity management industry’s first event to recognize individuals and organizations for developing and deploying outstanding digital identity management solutions.

This fifth year of the IDDY Awards will honor deployments and proofs of concepts of identity specifications that utilize any open/standard identity technology, including ID-WSF, Identity services from the Cloud, IGF, Information Cards, OATH, OAuth, OpenID, OpenSocial, OPML, PKI, RDF, RSS, SAML, WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS, XACML, XDI, XMPP extensions, XRD, XRI, etc. Applications for recipients are being accepted now, and deployers of these technologies are encouraged to participate.

“As the speed of innovation accelerates in the Identity Management arena, new business models and use cases are emerging,” says Matthew Gardiner, director CA Technologies & president, Kantara Initiative. “The IDDY Awards formally recognizes these innovations and their contributions to the digital identity management marketplace.”

The IDDYs recognize two categories of achievement: ID Deployment and Emerging Applications. The ID Deployment category spotlights applications that are currently delivering significant and quantifiable identity management value to organizations and users. The Emerging Applications category showcases “up-and-coming” applications and proof-of-concepts driving the next generation of digital identity management solutions.
• Judges announced: September 14, 2010
• Applications due: January 3, 2011 by midnight PT
(submit to IDDY@kantarainitiative.org)
• Winners notified: January 17, 2011
• Award presentation: February 14, 2011

The IDDY Awards judging panel is comprised of nine identity management and privacy and policy experts from around the globe, working collectively to evaluate applications that follow specified judging criteria:
- J. Trent Adams, Internet Society, Kantara Initaitve Leadership Council Chair
- Bob Bragdon, CSO
- Philippe Clement, Orange – FT
- Matthew Gardiner, CA Technologies, Kantara Initiative President
- Gerry Gebel, Axiomatics
- Leif Johansson, SUNET
- Nate Klinginstein, Internet2
- Martin Kuppinger, Kuppinger, Cole & Partner
- Nat Sakimura, NRI

ID Deployment Award criteria
1) Application meets and/or exceeds objectives established by the development team (25%)
2) Application demonstrates ROI (20%)
3) Application provides specific benefits to organizations and/or consumers and users (20%)
4) Application successfully addresses identity issues such as reducing/preventing identity theft, addressing ease of use issues, helping to meet regulatory requirements, increasing consumer privacy, addressing policy challenges (i.e., regulatory compliance and/or liability between trusted partners, etc.), enabling new business services, etc. (20%)
5) Tools used to develop the application demonstrate interoperability to open specifications and/or standards, e.g. having passed the Kantara Initiative InteroperableTM testing program or equivalent (15%)

Emerging Applications Award criteria
1) Application has the potential to deliver new identity management capabilities (fills an industry need) to users and organizations (30%)
2) Application has the potential for wide scale deployment (20%)
3) Application successfully addresses identity issues such as reducing/preventing identity theft, addressing ease of use needs, helping to meet regulatory requirements, increasing consumer privacy, addressing policy challenges, etc. (20%)
4) Interoperability of vendor products plays a role in the potential success of this application (10%)
5) Application has the potential to allow organizations or individuals to deploy/enable new services and/or meets key vertical market requirements (20%)

Past winners include the best and brightest in the identity marketplace, and Kantara Initiative looks forward to honoring this year’s recipients at their annual Identity Workshop at RSA. For more information on the 5th Annual IDDY Awards and an application, please go to:
http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/IDDY+Awards

About Kantara Initiative
Kantara Initiative is a global, open, public-private, technology-agnostic forum comprised of identity ecosystem stakeholders. Kantara Initiative’s inspired mission is to promote technical interoperability and harmonization; to develop policy frameworks for operational interoperability and; to provide certification and assessment programs to grow trust in the standards, products, and service deployments. Kantara Initiative freely provides the governance and resources whereby diverse members of the ecosystem successfully collaborate on a diverse portfolio of common policy frameworks, technical specifications and deployment guidelines driven by the identity community, industry and governments from around the world. For more information about getting involved in Kantara Initiative, visit www.kantarainitiative.org.

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Media Contacts
Michelle Hunt
Kantara Initiative
Michelle.Hunt@ieee-isto.org
+1 732 981-3434

The OpenID Summit will be held in Paris on October 18 hosted by Orange-FT at their Issy les Moulineaux campus in Southern Paris. This is a chance for developers, identity providers and relying parties to exchange information. Nat Sakimura and John Bradley have agreed to be the co-organizers.

Like the previous London event, the Paris Summit is coupled with Kantara Initiative’s third meeting, Tuesday-Thursday, October 19-21 at Orange-FT campus, Paris, France. We hope the discussions at the OpenID Summit will benefit marketing and technical teams at Orange-FT and attendees at the Kantara event by providing updates on various working groups and a review of significant OpenID deployments.

Thanks in advance to our friends at Orange-FT and to Nat and John for their leadership. We encourage all OIDF community and corporate members to commit early to presentations and use this opportunity to extend the adoption and technology working groups’ discussions to our colleagues in the UK and EU. The updates provided by large international identity providers benefit both local staff as well as smaller companies and developers. We will create a Summit wiki and registration site soon. Please forward this to colleagues and friends abroad and note the final 2010 OpenID Summit will be on November 8th at Facebook headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Registration for the OpenID Summit event Oct. 18 is here: http://openid-paris-summit-2010.eventbrite.com – contact Don Thibeau, don@oidf.org regarding presentations and further details

Registration for Kantara Initiative’s meeting Oct. 19-21 is here: http://bit.ly/KI_Paris_Mtg – contact Dervla O’Reilly, dervla@kantarainitiative.org for further details