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UMA webinar recording now available

dervla — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:17:23 +0000

User-Managed Access (UMA) lets web application creators easily craft systems that give control of data back to the people. Any web-based data ecosystem can leverage UMA, including eHealth and eGov portals, social networking sites, photo sharing portals, and personal data stores. It offers individuals centralized security, privacy, and control for sharing data with friends and family, business associates, and organizations. And it allows apps to offer sophisticated privacy and sharing options without a lot of software development. One UMA implementation, the SMART system from Newcastle University, leverages Facebook friends for sharing; others could use the new Google+ Circles system, which allows sharing within circles of contacts.

The audio and video recording of the UMA webinar from July 13 is available at http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/Home or http://bit.ly/UMAWebinar110713

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

dervla — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:09:38 +0000

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 prolific and widely dispersed across sites. Data privacy and security have become onerous issues. Kantara Initiative’s User-Managed Access Work Group (UMA WG) has published a Draft Recommendation for a user-managed data access protocol and contributed it to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body to solve these problems.

UMA lets web application creators easily craft systems that give control of data back to the people. Any web-based data ecosystem can leverage UMA, including eHealth and eGov portals, social networking sites, photo sharing portals, and personal data stores. It offers individuals centralized security, privacy, and control for sharing data with friends and family, business associates, and organizations. And it allows apps to offer sophisticated privacy and sharing options without a lot of software development. One UMA implementation, the SMART system from Newcastle University, leverages Facebook friends for sharing; others could use the new Google+ Circles system, which allows sharing within circles of contacts.

Aad van Moorsel, Director of the Newcastle University Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security, says: “The UK government will increasingly offer Internet-based services. The data shared in such services can be sensitive since it may include employment history, exam results or health information. UMA provides the technology to share such data safely, putting the citizen in control. We strongly believe UMA will be a cornerstone for future eGov services, and are working to publish our SMART software as an Open Source UMA implementation.”

Mario Hoffmann, Head of Secure Services & Quality Testing of Fraunhofer AISEC, remarks: “User empowerment serves as a key enabler for trustworthy and trusted service usage on the Internet. UMA supports developers through a security -and privacy-by-design approach. The user-centric concept of UMA is the basis for managing access policies to personal, data, claims, and attributes in a unified, balanced and comfortable way.”

Drummond Reed, Founder and Chairman of Connect.Me, comments: “This milestone for UMA could not come at a better time – interest in user-managed data sharing is exploding. Social networks have made people more comfortable with online sharing, and now UMA brings us a standard way for users to share data across many different sites and services without losing control of that information. Connect.Me looks forward to bringing the power of UMA to our users.”

Iain Henderson, Co-Founder of the Mydex Community Interest Company, says: “The publication of the draft specs for UMA is a great step forward in enabling the individual to better realise the value of their personal information. The Mydex team sees this release as of direct relevance to a number of existing initiatives in both public and private sectors, and we look forward to deploying it later in 2011.”

The WG will demonstrate UMA’s benefits in a public webinar on Wednesday, July 13, at 9am Pacific time. All are welcome to attend.

Register and find out more at http://tinyurl.com/umawg.

“Like” UMA on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UserManagedAccess.

Follow the group on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/umawg and hashtag #UMAWG.

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Presentations available from Kantara Initiative Annual Identity Workshop March 1, 2010

dervla — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:10:38 +0000

Many thanks to all our sponsors and presenters of Kantara Initiative’s Annual Identity workshop on March 1 at the RSA Security Conference. We had a full house with interesting presentations, pod demonstrations and dialog throughout the day from our sponsors; CA, FuGen Solutions, Google, NTT, Oracle, PayPal, Ping Identity & the U.S. Government.

If you weren’t there in person, you can review the presentations online:

Kantara Initiative Overview
Kantara Initiative Groups
PayPal KI 2010 RSA 2010 IA and Real World
CA KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference
NTT KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference (via prezi.com)
Ping ID KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference
Oracle KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference Customer Panel
Google KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference
FuGen KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference Demo Pod

FuGen added to Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop, March 1 2010

dervla — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:21:35 +0000

FuGen Solutions joins Kantara Initiative’s annual identity workshop at the RSA Conference, March 1, 2010, 8am-5pm. NTT, Ping Identity and the U.S. Government showcase demonstration pods alongside FuGen Solutions. Join us for a series of presentations, panels & demonstrations of common Cloud/SaaS scenarios from diverse market leaders.

Register now for our free workshop using the code: 1310KANEXPO for the Expo only pass and select Kantara Initiative from the ‘Registration Package’ page. This pass only allows access to Kantara Initiative workshop on March 1. Read details about the Conference events March 1-5.

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.

Agenda:

8:00- 9:00	Visit demonstration pods featuring a variety of innovations & deployment scenarios
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	Identity Assurance and Open Trust Frameworks, What does it all mean?
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
4:00-5:00	Visit demonstration pods featuring a variety of innovations & deployment scenarios

Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop, March 1 2010

dervla — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:28:35 +0000

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

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.

Google joins CA, Oracle, Ping Identity, NTT for Kantara Initiative’s workshop at RSA Conference

dervla — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:13:07 +0000

Eric Sachs, Product Manager Google Security & Chris Messina, Open Web Advocate will discuss the business value of federated login for consumer websites, Enterprise SaaS vendors, and Enterprises. Google joins CA, NTT, Oracle Corporation & Ping Identity for a series of presentations, panels & demonstrations of common Cloud/SaaS scenarios from diverse market leaders. Kantara’s annual workshop takes place March 1, 2010, 8am-5pm at the RSA Conference. View the full agenda online.

Register now for this free workshop. Please use the code: 1310KANEXPO for the Expo only pass and select Kantara Initiative from the ‘Registration Package’ page. This pass only allows access to Kantara Initiative workshop on March 1. Read details about the Conference events March 1-5.