Kantara Initiative is proud to announce eValid8 as their first Accredited Assessor for the Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program. The Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program is committed to helping drive organizational interoperability in order to assure trust in…
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…
In the third part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with J. Trent Adams, chair of the Kantara Initiative Leadership Council. In his day job Adams is Outreach Specialist for the…
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…
When: July 27, 2010 12:30-2:30pm, Room Aqua 304, Hilton Bayfront Hotel Where: Burton Catalyst San Diego Title: Authorization Standards Workshop Abstract: As authorization generally follows authentication in a given online transaction, standardization of authorization has generally followed that of web…
The Leadership Council has approved the merger IdP Selection Work Group into the Universal Login Experience (ULX) Work Group. Effective immediately the IdP Selection Work Group has shut down, therefore the workspace has been archived and the list serve is…
The Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce the formation of the Kantara Initiative Federation Interoperability Work Group (FIWG). The purpose of this Work Group is to profile existing specifications to define an interoperable trust infrastructure for use by parties participating…
Piscataway, NJ 17 May 2010 – Kantara Initiative, a global identity consortium promoting technical interoperability and harmonization to grow trust in Identity and Identity Access Management standards, products, and service deployments, today announced approval of its Identity Assurance Framework (IAF)…
Further to my recent post questioning whether Open Identity is really “open”. Every endeavour needs simplifying assumptions. Physicists, mathematicians and economists can only develop workable models of the world by making assumptions (and documenting them). Risk managers and lawyers make…
We are happy to announce that Yasuhisa Sakamoto of NTT will serve as co-chair alongside Toshihiro Suzuki of Oracle Corporation for the Japan Work Group (WG).  Yasuhisa Sakamoto has been active with the Japan WG since it’s inception and is…