Congratulations to Frank Villavicencio and Myisha Frazier-McElveen on their elections as Co-chairs of Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG).

This is an exciting time in the IAWG. As we charge forward with an aggressive 2011 agenda, we look forward to their strong leadership in working toward the common goal of accelerating Kantara’s visibility and contributions to the Identity Management / Privacy Communities.

Congratulations again to Frank and Myisha.

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

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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Thanks to Kantara Initiative’s Japan WG and their leadership, the Kantara Initiative Symposium 2010 in Japan is being held September 1, 2010, 13:00-18:00.

The workshop covers identity trust inclinations, identity control bases applied to numerous global governments, etc. Kantara Initiative’s President, Matthew Gardiner will report on the latest industry activity and identity case studies.

Due to a high level of interest this event has just reached capacity. Agenda details and content:
http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/WGJ/Kantara+Initiative+Symposium+2010. We will share details of the event after September 1.

We invite you to join us for the third Kantara Initiative Meeting, Tuesday-Thursday, October 19-21. This event is kindly hosted by Orange-FT at their Issy les Moulineaux campus in Southern Paris.

Registration is now open – the early-bird registration price is $195USD until September 17, then $250USD thereafter until October 21.

Event information is available at our conference page. You can review the agenda, nearby hotel details, maps and travel details at this page.

Stay tuned for details and location for our open-for-all dinner Wednesday, October 20, 6:00-8:00pm.

We hope you will join us later this year in Paris.

Registration is open for pii2010.   Taking place August 17-19 in Seattle during Seattle Geek Week, pii2010 will explore the future of digital privacy, identity and innovation, and how to strike a balance between protecting sensitive information and enabling new technologies and business models.

It’s an all-hands-on-deck conference where industry executives, technologists, consumer advocates, policy experts and other stakeholders will come together as a group to examine critical issues llike:

• How emerging technologies & business models are impacting the way data is created, shared and aggregated
• Effective approaches for building online trust with users
• Ways in which user preferences and social norms are shifting
• Changes in the regulatory landscape, in the U.S. and internationally
• The role of anonymity and the future of reputation management on the Web
• The latest developments in user-centric identity management

In addition, pii2010 will serve as the official launch pad for pii Labs, an open forum for brainstorming and collaborating where you will have an opportunity to share your ideas and projects with other participants.

Contact Dervla O’Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org for the discount code (for Kantara Initiative’s members) to save 20% off of pii2010 registration.

Review the 3-day schedule online.

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the SAML 2.0 Full Matrix Test Event. The deadline for registration for this event is September 13, 2010.

Expanding on the highly successful Liberty Interoperable™ Program, the Kantara Initiative Interoperability Test Program is designed to certify interoperability of products and technologies across multiple identity-related protocols and standards, including SAML 2.0, InfoCard, OpenID, ID-WSF and elements of the WS-* stack (WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation).

The first Test Event scheduled to occur is the SAML 2.0 Full Matrix Test event. This event will reference the soon to come Kantara Initiative SAML 2.0 Test Plan, the eGovernment SAML Implementation Profile v2.0 and the eGovernment SAML Implementation Profile v1.5.

The test event will take place on-line starting September 20th and running through November 5th, 2010. The fee for this event is $16,000 USD. The Test Event will be operated by our partners the Drummond Group Incorporated.

Register for the event at our SAML 2.0 Test Event Registration page.

Details on the event and reference documents visit the SAML 2.0 Full Matrix Event Details page.

For answers to questions regarding the SAML 2.0 Full Matrix Test Event send us an inquiry via our Contact Us form.

By taking part in this event participants will be further assuring market trust in the interoperability of their implementations through the Kantara Initiative Interoperability Certification Program. We look forward to your inquiries and participation.

Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative:

• Authorization Standards Workshop at Burton Catalyst San Diego, July 27, 12:30-2:30pm
• Merger of Kantara’s IdP Selection WG into ULX WG
• Kantara Initiative Meeting, Oct. 19-21, Paris, France hosted by Orange-FT
• Kantara Initiative announces the formation of the Federation Interoperability Work Group (FIWG)
• Kantara Initiative Announces Identity Assurance Framework 2.0
• Announcing Yasuhisa Sakamoto & Toshihiro Suzuki as Kantara Initiative’s Japan WG co-chairs
• Kantara Initiative Engages Drummond Group to Manage Global Interoperability Program
• Comparing OAuth and UMA – by Eve Maler
• Kantara speakers featured at Burton Catalyst Prague, June 21-24, 2010
• Kantara Initiative Webcast via BrightTALK: Identity Assurance Frameworks within Federated IAM Systems, May 6 - listen and view the audio of this Webcast
• Catch up on recent activities at industry events: UMA at EIC 2010, IIW X round-up
• What exactly is “open” in Open Identity?
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: pii2010, August 17-19, Seattle, 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