Press Releases

US GSA Requires Liberty Alliance Interoperability Testing as Public Sector SAML 2.0 Adoption Soars

– Liberty Alliance today announced that the E-Authentication Solution program of the US General Services Administration (GSA) now mandates passing Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperability testing as a prerequisite for participating in the US E-Authentication Identity Federation. This news comes as governments around the world build and deploy SAML 2.0-based applications to offer millions of citizens secure and privacy-respecting online services and to provide businesses and public sector trading partners with an open, proven interoperable and trusted platform for conducting and managing a wide variety of identity-based transactions.

Liberty Alliance Announces Winners of the 2007 IDDY Award

– Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced winners of the 2007 IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award.

Liberty Alliance Builds Global Trust Framework for Identity Federations Spanning Industries and Regions

– Liberty Alliance today announced it has formed a new expert group to deliver the Liberty Trust Framework, an organizational framework designed to fill industry requirements for standardized identity assurance criteria for use in a broad range of federation scenarios. Liberty’s Identity Assurance Expert Group (IAEG) was established by the recent merge of the Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP) into Liberty Alliance, and consists of representatives from the worldwide financial services, government, healthcare and service provider sectors working collaboratively to release the Liberty Trust Framework for public review and input later this year.

Liberty Alliance Announces ‘Access to Identity Enabled Web Services in Inter-Federation Scenarios’ Public Webcast and Whitepaper

– Liberty Alliance today announced the release of a new whitepaper and public webcast, Access to Identity Enabled Web Services in Inter-Federation Scenarios taking place on Wednesday, September 5 at 8 am US PT. The webcast will feature authors of the whitepaper from Ericsson, TeliaSonera and Symlabs and is designed to help developers, organizations and system integrators understand business drivers and options for accessing and managing identity Web services based on secure and trusted inter-federation relationships.

Liberty Alliance Announces IDDY Awards Ceremony at DIDW 2007

– Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the 2007 IDDY Awards will be presented on September 25 as part of the keynote sessions at DIDW in San Francisco. Applications selected for this year’s IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year Award) will also be featured in a DIDW panel presentation taking place on September 25 and moderated by Roger Sullivan, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board. The call for nominations for the 2007 IDDY closes on Monday, August 20.The IDDY recognizes identity-based applications built using Liberty Federation, Liberty Web Services, Liberty People Service and Liberty Advanced Client specifications. This year's call for nominations includes an Emerging Application category designed to shine a spotlight on the proof-of-concept applications leveraging the security, privacy and proven interoperability of Liberty’s open identity standards. Individuals can nominate a deployment for the 2007 IDDY.

Industry Leaders Submit Identity Governance Framework to openLiberty.org for Development of Open Source Implementations

– Liberty Alliance today announced two key milestones for the Identity Governance Framework (IGF). Today, industry leaders submitted IGF to openLiberty.org for open source development of IGF implementations. Liberty Alliance also announced the ratification of market requirements documentation (MRD) for IGF and the commencement of technical specification work. With today’s news, developers, system integrators and organizations in every sector can begin planning IGF deployments referencing the publicly available MRD and building IGF applications based on the open source APIs collaboratively developed at openLiberty.org. Liberty will hold a public webcast to review IGF developments and the roadmap for continuous development and support within Liberty Alliance and at openLiberty.org on August 15 at 8 am US PT.

Liberty Alliance Announces ‘SOA: Protecting the Architecture by Leveraging Standards’ Webcast

– Liberty Alliance today announced the webcast, ‘SOA, Protecting the Architecture by Leveraging Standards.’ This public event will take place on Wednesday, July 18, from 8-9 am US PT, and will focus on the business challenges involved in protecting SOAs and a potential solution based on injecting identity into all of the layers of the architecture to enable single-sign-on (SSO) and enforcement of policy across the deployment.

HP, Intel, NTT and Symlabs First to Demonstrate Interoperability of Liberty Alliance Advanced Client Specifications

– Liberty Alliance today announced that Intel, HP, NTT and Symlabs have demonstrated interoperability for Liberty’s Advanced Client specifications. The testing was conducted by Liberty’s Technology Expert Group (TEG) to ensure the specifications meet foundational use case requirements and enable interoperable implementations. The final release of the Advanced Client specifications is currently scheduled for later this summer.

Concordia Project Advances Interoperability Among Digital Identity Management Solutions

– The Concordia Project today announced the third face-to-face meeting taking place at Catalyst 2007 on June 26 in San Francisco. Concordia is a global, cross-industry initiative formed by members of the identity management community to drive harmonization and interoperability among various identity initiatives and protocols. This meeting will focus on gathering and refining use cases for prioritization of rapid interoperability efforts with presentations from AOL, the Government of British Columbia, General Motors and others.

Liberty Alliance Announces New Membership Structure

– Liberty Alliance today announced changes to its global membership structure and new benefits for members. The new initiatives are designed to make it easier for all individuals and organizations to access the resources of the Alliance and to participate in developing the next generation of secure, privacy-respecting and interoperable identity standards based on Liberty’s proven model of addressing the personal, business and technology aspects of digital identity management.

Liberty Alliance Announces Call for Nominations for the 2007 IDDY Awards

– Liberty Alliance today announced a call for nominations for the 2007 IDDY Awards. The IDDY Award (IDentity Deployment of the Year) recognizes identity-based applications built using Liberty Federation, Liberty Web Services, Liberty People Service and Liberty Advanced Client specifications.

Liberty Alliance Releases New Specifications for Linking Digital Identity Management to Consumer Devices

– Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the release of the Advanced Client specifications designed to allow enterprise users and consumers to manage identity information on devices such as cameras, handhelds, laptops, printers, and televisions. The Advanced Client is a set of specifications and technologies that leverage the proven interoperability, security and privacy capabilities of Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services to allow users to conduct a wide range of new identity-based transactions from any device.

Liberty Alliance and Internet Identity Workshop Team on First Identity Open Space Unconference in Europe

– Liberty Alliance today announced that it has teamed with the Internet Identity Workshop to hold an Identity Open Space (IOS) on April 26 and 27 in Brussels, Belgium. The “unconference” is taking place in conjunction with Liberty’s April 24 – 26 global membership meeting and is the second IOS Liberty Alliance has jointly produced with the IIW. The IOS event is open to anyone interested in advancing the user-centric identity conversation.

Liberty Alliance Assists Corporate Legal Teams; Consortium Releases Framework for Establishing Contractual Agreements for Digital Identity Management

– Liberty Alliance today announced the release of a legal frameworks document designed to help organizations address the legal considerations involved in deploying federated identity management. The Liberty Alliance Contractual Framework Outline for Circles of Trust was developed to assist legal and executive management teams develop trusted relationships among organizations participating in a federated network. Liberty Alliance will hold a public webcast to review the legal frameworks document on Wednesday, March 14, from 8-9 am US PT.

Liberty Alliance and Oracle Team to Advance Identity Governance Framework

– Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, and Oracle today announced that Oracle has submitted the Identity Governance Framework (IGF) royalty-free to Liberty Alliance. The IGF is an open standards-based initiative developed by Oracle to help organizations better govern and protect sensitive identity-related employee, customer and partner information as it flows across heterogeneous applications. Liberty Alliance will leverage its expert groups, diverse global membership and leadership in addressing the technology, business and privacy aspects of digital identity management to further develop the IGF specifications.