Accredited Assessors LoA 1-4	Approved Service LoA 1-3 non-crypto	Applications Submitted
	Verizon Universal Identity Service ICAM Trust Framework LoA3

The Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Accreditation and Approval Program is committed to helping drive organizational interoperability in order to better the identity-based experience of end users, Relying Parties and Federation Operators. The goal of this activity is to provide public and private sector organizations with a uniform means of relying on digital credentials issued by a variety of identity assurance providers (credential service providers) in order to advance trusted identity and facilitate public access to online services and information.
Review our presentation on the Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Program for a more complete overview.

US ICAM APPROVED
The US Federal Government’s Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Trust Framework Evaluation Team (TFET) has granted Kantara Initiative full Approval as a Trust Framework Provider to Accredit Assessors and Approve CSPs at Levels 1, 2 & non-crypto Level 3 under the Open Identity Solutions for Open Government program.

More about Identity Assurance Framework
This program is based upon the ICAM approved submission of the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF), which was developed with input from members of the global financial services, government, healthcare, IT and telecom sectors. The Identity Assurance Framework describes the 4 Assurance Levels and Service Assessment Criteria which a Credential Service Provider (or IdP) would be assessed against to become Kantara Initiative Service Approved.

Who should get Certified?	Government and Private Sector based Credential Service Providers or Identity Providers
Who should get Accredited?	Government and Private Sector based Assessors or Auditing Organizations
Where can I find full details?	Full details are located in our Assurance Accreditation and Approval Center
How can we apply?	Our pilot program is currently enrolling participants. If you’d like to participate or have questions about this program, please use our Contact Us form.

IAF Identity Assurance Levels: Snapshot View

Assurance Level	Example	Assessment Criteria-Organization	Assessment Criteria-Identity Proofing	Assessment Criteria-Credential Mgmt
AL 1	Registration to a news website	Minimal Organizational criteria	Minimal criteria – Self assertion	PIN and Password
AL 2	Change of address of record by a beneficiary	Moderate organizational criteria	Moderate criteria – Attestation of Govt ID	Single factor; prove control of token through authentication protocol
AL 3	Access to an online brokerage account	Stringent organizational criteria	Stringent criteria – stronger attestation and verification of records	Multi-factor auth: cryptographic protocol; “soft”, “hard”, or “OTP” tokens
AL 4	Dispensation of a controlled drug or $1M bank wire	Stringent organizational criteria	More stringent criteria – stronger attestation and verification	Multi-factor auth w/ hard tokens only; crypto protocol w/ keys bound to auth process

NOTE: Assurance level criteria as posited by the OMB M-04-04 and NIST Special Publication 800-63

Level	Educational Institution	Non-Profit	L0: 1-100 employees	L1: 101-1000 employees	L2: 1001-25000 employees	L3: > 25000 employees
Credential Service Provider Subscriber	$2000*	$2000*	$4000*	$9000	$16500	$21500
Credential Service Provider Renewal	$1000*	$1000*	$3000*	$8000	$15500	$20500
Assessor Accreditation Subscriber	$1500*	$2000*	$5000*	$11000	$17000	$25000
Assessor Accreditation Renewal	$1000*	$1500*	$4000*	$10000	$16000	$24000

NOTES:

• All investment fees are noted in USD.
• Investment fees are subject to change per ratification by the Kantara Initiative Board of Trustees.
• All investments fees are inclusive of Trustmark Use
• * Denotes potential for submission of in-kind services proposal