Microsoft Teams With ID System
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The software giant will partner with a Web 2.0 effort to drastically change how users log into software services. It could spell the end of password woes. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Microsoft is recasting ambitions for its .Net Passport identification system, saying the service now will be limited to its own online offerings and those of close partners.
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(Source: Symantec)  One common mistake that organizations make is by using Identity management solutions in isolation. Doing so risks access inflation, workarounds and coverage gaps. This white paper shows how comprehensive access management deploys identity management within a framework that includes disciplines for data protection, integration with hiring and promotion, and especially monitoring.
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IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group's efforts to simplify the process of signing into Web sites.
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Microsoft has developed a convenient solution for replacing all those passwords with something you don&#39;t have to worry about forgetting: your fingerprint.
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MICROSOFT has unveiled a new range of peripherals that include the company&#39;s first foray into biometric identification on the desktop.
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IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign, and Yahoo have joined the OpenID Foundation board.
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People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that&#160;support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online.Already, almost 10,000 Web sites support OpenID, an open framework available for free to end users and Web site operators alike, according to the OpenID Foundation.Yahoo&#39;s move will triple the number of OpenID accounts to 368 million by adding its 248 million active registered users to the rolls, the company said Thursday.OpenID addresses one of several issues related to giving people more control of their online activities. Other groups are focusing on data portability, to let people move around the data and content they create online, so that they don&#39;t have to enter it manually in, say, every social-networking site they sign up for.Yet other initiatives, like Google&#39;s OpenSocial, aim to create standard interfaces so that developers can create applications that run in multiple social-networking sites, instead of having to rewrite the same application multiple times for every site.For all of these initiatives, it&#39;s critical for major Internet players to get involved, so that the benefits of standard technology and methods developed by groups like OpenID can have a real-world impact.Unsurprisingly, in Thursday&#39;s statement, Scott Kveton, the OpenID Foundation&#39;s chairman, hailed Yahoo&#39;s support as a crucial validation of the framework that will help spur its adoption by other large Web site operators.Other major players that have expressed interest and gotten involved in varying degrees with OpenID include Google, Six Apart, AOL, Sun, Novell, and Microsoft.Yahoo&#39;s announcement doesn&#39;t come as a complete surprise, since signs that it had been working on an OpenID implementation had surfaced. For example, a short message in the domain me.yahoo.com indicating the company would act as an identity provider for OpenID was spotted last week.Yahoo participated in the development of version 2.0 of the OpenID framework, which the company said provides new security features. Yahoo users who log in to third-party OpenID sites should know that the log-in process doesn&#39;t reveal e-mail or instant-message addresses, Yahoo said Thursday.Yahoo&#39;s initial OpenID service will be available in public beta on Jan. 30 and the company is working with several partners, including Plaxo, so that the Yahoo ID will work on their sites that day.&#160;
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Microsoft officials said today that they have revised their Sender ID protocol to work better with an existing standard and that they have narrowed their patent application to make sure it doesn't cover other proposals.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has wound up its working group on Sender ID, the proposed spam-cutting standard. The purpose of Sender ID technology is to help verify the source of emails by authenticating domain addresses as valid.
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Identity 2.0 company Sxip releases a new login and password management
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DECEMBER 13, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. has joined the desktop search fray with its release today of the beta-test version of a suite of tools designed to let users find information stored in their PCs.
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Microsoft's Live Labs has debuted a new service to allow users to create and share various types of lists.
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The OpenID Foundation announced Thursday that Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and VeriSign have all joined its board of directors. The foundation hopes this will help speed wide-spread adoption of its decentralized identity management system, which allows users to access multiple websites using a single login.
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IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign, and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the&#160;OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group&#39;s efforts to simplify the process of signing into Web sites.The OpenID framework allows people to use a single user name and password to sign into sites that support it.More than 10,000 Web sites now support OpenID log-ins, according to the foundation. Last month,&#160;Yahoo announced&#160;its 248 million active registered users could begin using their handle and password to login to non-Yahoo Web sites that&#160;support the OpenID 2.0 framework.The closer links between OpenID and these major vendors is sure to help the foundation&#39;s effort, according to its executive director, Bill Washburn. &quot;The community has clearly expanded since the inception of the Foundation and these companies will help bring OpenID into the mainstream markets,&quot; he said in a statement.Another statement on the foundation&#39;s Web site went into further detail on what the new alliances could mean.&quot;In 2008, we can expect to see a larger focus on making OpenID even more accessible to a mainstream audience, the development of a World-wide trademark usage policy (much like the Jabber Foundation and Mozilla have done), and a larger international focus on working with the OpenID communities in Asia and Europe,&quot; it read.&quot;We think this is one of the largest efforts put into identity management as far as the Internet is concerned,&quot; said Anthony Nadalin, an IBM distinguished engineer and chief security architect for Tivoli software, in an interview Thursday.Nadalin couldn&#39;t pinpoint when the vendors&#39; new level of involvement with OpenID will produce tangible results. &quot;This takes a little bit of time, understanding and agreeing on the issues and where we need to drive this set of technology,&quot; he said.&quot;IBM is well-known for its ability to produce secure protocols,&quot; he added. &quot;We have quite a bit of talent to bring to this foundation.&quot;He noted that Version 2.0 of the OpenID framework is still fairly new.&quot;You can&#39;t confuse the industry by coming in and throwing out a brand-new framework,&quot; Nadalin said, &quot;I think it&#39;s coming down to that on the 2.0 level, we get the kind of interoperability we need.&quot;Beyond sign-on, various efforts are underway to&#160;standardize how personal data can be moved around the Web. The Dataportability Workgroup wants to broaden the scope of portable data to things like user-created photos and videos.
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Microsoft declares its support for a scheme that aims to make it easier to maintain online identities.
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UPDATE: Yahoo user names and passwords can soon be used to access Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework.