Liberty Alliance offers guide for identity roll-out
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(InfoWorld) - The Liberty Alliance Project has published a document outlining the legal issues enterprises should consider when networking their Web applications and identity systems with those of other businesses. The primer on creating circles of trust raises awareness around issues such as privacy, technical terminology, indemnification and dispute resolution, the organization said. The Liberty Alliance, composed of vendors such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and IBM, has worked on defining technical protocols used for federated identity and Web applications. It's now studying policy issues around theÂ use of federated identity technology. While vendors are now producing standards-based products that enable the secure sharing of information, the legal consequences of what happens if things go wrong aren't so well defined. Before linking their systems, two businesses have to create a contract, a process Liberty calls establishing aÂ "Circle of Trust." Since managing federation agreeements between businesses is still a new area "it's helpful to have a checklist," said Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum in London. "It's a step forward." The document was written by Liberty's Public Policy Expert Group along with legal experts, the organization said.
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Officials from New Jersey and California say life will be easier when we all get government-issued cards mandated by the Real ID Act. Ryan Singel reports from the RSA Conference.
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The Liberty Alliance Project signalled that it expects to have longevity when it comes to developing and promoting federated identity standards by naming its first executive director on Monday.
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Consortium aims to expand the Kerberos network authentication protocol into a universally used single-sign-on security authentication platform.
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PC Magazine - The five-member group will set policies and regulations for the community created around Sun Microsystems' open hardware initiative.
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RSA Security and America Online hope to encourage AOL customers to better protect account information. And VeriSign is announcing a new service called Unified Authentication to reduce the cost of using one-time passwords or hardware smart cards.
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Hoping to develop a framework that can one day be turned over to a standards-setting body, Oracle is tackling the problem of how identity data can be safely shared across heterogenous applications.
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To: STATE EDITORS  Contact: Meghan Edwards, of Identity PR, for Digital 10 Network, +1-248-258-2333, or medwards@identitypr.com   FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Feb.
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Ellison no show RSA It was with more of a whimper than a bang that Oracle Wednesday handed a framework for building standardized regulatory compliance systems to the Liberty Alliance Project.â¦
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That plastic card, the one with the lousy photo that's jammed into your wallet or purse, isn't just a license to drive. It's the green light to buy a drink, the ticket to federal benefits, the must-have document to get aboard airplanes. Now it's also the flash point for an argument about how best to balance America's security needs with worries that personal privacy could be swept away.
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U.S. officials said they would unveil on Friday reasonable and inexpensive national requirements to implement an identification-card program critics call a costly invasion of privacy.
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Trust and inclusion foregrounded in desperate rescue plan Teachers and 16 year olds are the favoured 'soft targets' for the redesigned ID card scheme rollout, according to an Identity &amp; Passport Service planning document seen by The Register. As suggested in leaks last weekend, IPS now plans to soft-pedal fingerprints and - astoundingly - it seems on the point of abandoning the notion of forcing ID cards onto the public via passport renewals.â¦
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Virginia legislators are weighing a plan to add biometric data and radio signal emitting chips to licenses to prevent identity theft and thwart terrorists. Critics say the plan could compromise privacy and allow new varieties of fraud to flourish. By Mark Baard.
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Breaking up your identity can be good for security No system works perfectly all the time, but for something as fundamental as being able to prove who you are and get access to what youâre supposed to be able to do, we need to set things up so thereâs a fall-back plan.â¦
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A number of changes have been made to Security Enhanced Linux in Fedora Core 3--here's what you should know.
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Making it easy for creators and users of information to find each other should be a high priority for policy makers.
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By JAKE COYLE  With generators for entering your own info into everything from church signs to Stephen Colbert's "On Notice" board, numerous Web sites are offering you a chance to put your name in lights.