Join. Innovate. Trust.

We are a global community focused on improving the trustworthy use of identity and personal data. Our working groups explore innovation, standardization and develop good practice around the collection, storage and use of personal information and identity.

We also run the world’s leading Identity Assurance Programs – including assessing for conformance against the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) 800-63 standards for identity privacy and security.

About us

The Problem

We all have to manage multiple IDs in our daily lives. There is little interoperability between sectors or use cases. And as new applications and services are developed, this increases complexity which leads to confusion and heightens concerns over privacy and security.

The Solution

At Kantara Initiative, we assess ID systems and Credential Service Providers (CSPs) against privacy and security standards across technology, business processes and governance. Providing peace of mind for organizations and their customers alike.

The principles of openness, transparency and fairness

We encourage our teams, members, partners and supporters to be open, transparent and fair in all activities. We also have a Committee dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in identity systems

News and Announcements

Why Konfir awarded our certification team…

Tell us a bit about Konfir – what do you do and why? Konfir was established to revolutionize the employment verification process by securely removing companies’ administrative burdens when requesting or completing employment and gaps in employment verifications. We achieve…

March 30, 2023

What the revised charter for the…

The Privacy-Enhancing Mobile Credentials Working Group within Kantara Initiative is working to develop the necessary privacy-related guidance for those organizations issuing, verifying, and developing the technologies to hold digital credentials such as mobile drivers’ licenses (mDL) when in person. This…

March 27, 2023

Top Tips from our US Assurance…

Kantara Initiative has been running identity assurance programs since 2011. As the global leader in this area, we asked our current US Assurance Program Manager, Lynzie Adams, to give us her top tips for organizations wishing to apply for a…

March 1, 2023

Regular Round-Up from our Working Groups

Advanced Notice & Consent Receipt WG February 28 2023 Chair: Salvatore d’Agostino On 20th February, our Advanced Notice and Consent Receipts Work Group (ANCR WG) celebrated the 5th anniversary of the publication of the Consent Receipt Specification v1.1 This is…

March 1, 2023

What people say about us

“We see Kantara Initiative as a good platform for Seadot to cooperate with other organizations in our domain to ensure cybersecurity for the digital economy – specifically within identity, assurance and trust”.

Seadot

“The Kantara Initiative had a reputation for excellence and for not cutting any corners during the auditing process, so we selected the Kantara Initiative as our community because we wanted to go through an accreditation process the market and our customers would respect. As the digital economy grows, the Kantara Initiative plays an essential role in providing business customers with the confidence that the identity solutions they are considering have been vetted”.

ID.me

“We were motivated to join Kantara Initiative to help us establish an architecture where a clear, unambiguous information exchange can take place. Using Kantara’s Consent Receipt specifications, we are able to offer our partners a service that eliminates the need for centralized databases of personal information and greatly simplifies their compliance requirements”.

Airside

In conversation with Ryan Howells, Levitt Partners

Interview with Peter from Airside

Interview with 1Kosmos

Are Mobile Driving Licences Paving the Way to Digital ID?