Press Releases

OpenLiberty.org Releases First Open Source Identity Governance Framework Software

– OpenLiberty.org, the global open source community working to provide developers with resources and support for building interoperable identity-enabled services for enterprises and people, today announced the release of ArisID, the first open source software implementing Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF) components. The ArisID API provides enterprise developers and system architects with a library for building enterprise-grade identity-enabled applications using multiple identity protocols, and lays the groundwork for allowing enterprises to manage and audit the identity requirements of business applications based on declarative IGF policy specifications.

New Liberty Alliance Group Focuses on Identity Management in the Education and Human Resources Sectors

– Liberty Alliance today announced the launch of the public Liberty Alliance Human Resources and Education Special Interest Group (SIG). The goal of the group is to foster interoperability, security and user privacy across online identity-enabled solutions in the global education and human resources sectors. The Human Resources and Education (HR-EDU) SIG will hold its first public face-to-face meeting on October 22 at the ePortfolio & Digital Identity 2008 conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Liberty Alliance Launches Public ‘French Speaking’ Digital Identity Management Forum

– Liberty Alliance today announced the launch of the Liberty Alliance French-speaking Special Interest Group (SIG). Based in Paris with liaison members in other French-speaking countries, the public forum has been created by Liberty members from EIfEL, Entrouvert, France Telecom/Orange and Sun Microsystems. The goal of the forum is to foster a global French-speaking identity community working to advance secure and privacy-respecting identity-enabled applications based on Liberty Alliance specifications and the standardized Liberty Identity Assurance and Liberty Identity Governance Frameworks.

Liberty Alliance Announces Latest Companies Passing SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing

– Liberty Alliance today announced that products from CA; NTT Software; Ping Identity; RSA, The Security Division of EMC; and Ubisecure have passed Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperability testing. These vendors participated in the second Liberty Interoperable™ event to offer full-matrix and eGovernment profile testing managed by the Drummond Group Inc. Liberty Alliance and the Drummond Group will host a public webcast outlining the benefits full-matrix testing is delivering to the global identity industry at 8 AM US PT (5 pm CET) on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008.

CA Joins Liberty Alliance Management Board

– Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trustworthy Internet for businesses, governments and people worldwide, today announced that CA has become a member of the Liberty Alliance Management Board. CA joins Liberty Alliance board members from AOL, BT, France Telecom, Intel, Novell, NTT, Oracle and Sun Microsystems to help drive the strategic direction of Liberty Alliance on a global basis.

Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT Present Award-Winning Applications at DIDW 2008

– Liberty Alliance today announced the Case Studies and Stories from IDDY Award Winners panel presentation taking place from 12:20pm - 1:10pm on September 9 at CSO Magazine’s DIDW Conference 2008. The interactive presentation will feature representatives from Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT discussing highlights of identity-enabled applications that have won the 2008 Liberty Alliance IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award.

Liberty Alliance Announces September 8 Identity Assurance Workshop at DIDW 2008

– Liberty Alliance today announced a September 8 Identity Assurance Workshop taking place from 1 – 3 pm US PT at CSO Magazine’s Digital ID World 2008 in Anaheim CA. The interactive pre-conference event is hosted by early deployers of the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) and is open to all individuals interested in learning how to drive trust into identity systems that are built using any federation protocol based on four standardized identity assurance levels and corresponding business and policy criteria outlined in the IAF.

Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT Win 2008 Liberty Alliance IDDY Awards

– Liberty Alliance today announced Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT have won the 2008 IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award. This year the judging panel awarded IDDYs in three categories covering Liberty-based deployments, Liberty-based emerging applications and multi-protocol identity-enabled solutions incorporating open identity specifications from Liberty Alliance. Winners will receive the IDDY Award on-stage at CSO Magazine’s Digital ID World 2008 conference in Anaheim CA on September 9.

Liberty Alliance Announces First Release of Identity Governance Framework Components

– Liberty Alliance today announced the first public release of components of the Liberty Identity Governance Framework. Developed with wide cross-industry support, the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF) is the industry’s first programmatic and auditable open standards-based initiative designed to help organizations better govern and protect identity-related employee, customer and partner information as it flows across heterogeneous applications and networks.

Liberty Alliance Marks Policy and Privacy Milestone for Identity-Enabled Enterprise and Web 2.0 Applications

– Liberty Alliance today announced an industry milestone in driving trust and privacy into enterprise and identity-enabled applications based on the release of the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) and the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF). Today’s news is the result of the collaborative development of standardized frameworks and technologies designed to meet cross-industry requirements for policy-based security and privacy systems, with a focus on streamlining the establishment and management of identity and trust across user-driven applications and networks.

Liberty Alliance Releases Identity Assurance Framework

– Liberty Alliance today announced the first public release of the protocol independent Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF). The IAF details four identity assurance levels to ease and speed the process of linking trusted identity-enabled enterprise, social networking and Web 2.0 applications together based on standardized business rules and security risks associated with each level of identity assurance. Liberty Alliance will launch an IAF identity assurance accreditation and certification program during 3Q 08.

Liberty Alliance Announces Judging Panel for the 2008 IDDY Awards

– Liberty Alliance today announced the judging panel for the 2008 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards. This year judges will be evaluating nominations in three categories: a Liberty-based deployment, a Liberty-based emerging application and a new multi-protocol application category. The call for nominations for the 2008 IDDY Awards ends on Monday, June 16, with winners announced on June 30. IDDYs will be presented at CSO Magazine's Digital ID World 2008 conference (September 8-10) in Anaheim, CA.

Liberty Alliance Announces Call for Nominations for the 2008 IDDY Awards

– Liberty Alliance today announced a call for nominations for the 2008 IDDY Awards. The IDDY Award (IDentity Deployment of the Year) recognizes identity-based applications built using Liberty Federation (SAML 2.0), Liberty Web Services, Liberty People Service and Liberty Advanced Client specifications. The call for nominations ends on Monday, June 16, with winners announced on June 30. IDDY Awards will be presented at CSO magazine’s Digital ID World 2008 conference (September 8-10) in Anaheim, CA.

‘Zero Day Threat’ Focus of May 7 Liberty Alliance Privacy in an Online, Web 2.0 World Webcast

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Liberty Alliance Privacy in an Online, Web 2.0 World Webcast Series Continues April 23

– Liberty Alliance today announced highlights of the Privacy in Perspective webcast taking place at 8 am US PT (3:00 UTC) on Wednesday, April 23. The public event is hosted by Phil Hunt, Director Security Standards, Oracle Identity Management, and lead developer of the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF) open source project at OpenLiberty.org. The session will overview the privacy benefits IGF delivers to enterprise applications and how the framework lays the foundation for developing enterprise-grade Web 2.0 applications.