“My company joined Liberty Alliance because I am personally interested in understanding the impact on how a more trusted Internet environment might evolve though development of Liberty Alliance standards and best practices. We are actively working with the Alliance to provide use cases for the Trusted Module Specification being developed.”
“The DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University joined the Liberty Alliance in order to benefit from and to contribute, through its research, to the knowledge available on identity theft issues and their potential solutions, through the wide array of businesses, universities, and other institutions in the Alliance. McMaster is one of four universities (McMaster, Ottawa, Carleton, and Queen’s) in an Ontario university consortium called the Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce (ORNEC). ORNEC is supporting a program to study identity theft. The program will be completed by December 2007, and includes four closely linked projects, focused on: 1) definitions and measurements, 2) legal and policy issues, 3) management issues, and 4) technical tools for addressing identity theft. Dr. Norm Archer at McMaster heads the project concerned with defining and measuring identity theft in Canada, including a major Canadian consumer survey that is currently being undertaken. The survey results will be matched with results of identity theft studies in Canada and other countries to determine differences in the nature and occurrence rates of identity theft. In addition, an attempt will be made to develop an index that can be used to track the occurrence rates of different classes of identity theft, through an annual survey of consumers and business. ”
“Danish Biometrics is a consortium of universities, research institutions, technology providers, trade organizations as well as IT integrators, including Copenhagen IT University, Technical University of Denmark, Confederation of Danish Industries, Unisys, Precise Biometrics and Siemens among others. Danish Biometrics is the largest organization of its kind in Scandinavia with 30 members. The agenda of the Consortium is not only to start national and international research and development but also participate in testing, benchmarking and last not least building business cases on biometrics. Since our start in March 2006 we have entered a strategic alliance with Copenhagen Hospitality Corporation on how biometrics can be integrated in EPR and for the first time in Scandinavia we have launched a new education on biometrics together with Fraunhofer IDG in Germany and Technical University of Denmark, just to mention a couple of our achievements until now. “Realizing that we are living in a globalized world and that there are no borders in cyberspace, it is obvious that the quality of our activities very much relies on our international relations and our ability to benefit and contribute to the most important global networks. Liberty Alliance is a world wide organization with a very important agenda on how we can provide more interoperability and convergence meeting the challenges of high security and user convenience. Danish Biometrics is convinced that biometrics is an approach to solve both challenges at the same time. I am very pleased that Danish Biometrics has joined Liberty Alliance.”
“BT is delighted to join the Liberty Alliance. This is an exciting time for BT and its customers as we roll out 21CN. 21CN is BT's next generation network - an advanced communications network for the future. We believe BT's 21CN vision is radical and groundbreaking. It is designed to empower the end-user with control, choice and flexibility like never before - offering communications from anywhere to any device. This ambitious and exciting program will enable a new generation of rich yet secure personal services, transforming people's personal and business lives. Federated Identity Management enables the dynamic nature of our market where we collaborate with our suppliers and our competitors on an ever changing basis. Where through our own experiences and investments we are then able to bring these capabilities to all our business customers, so they can realize the same benefits. Personalized services are central to the vision and are only achievable with robust open identity management standards and profiles. We look forward to working with the Liberty Alliance to move that vision forward and then deploying it via common reusable 21C identity management capabilities which seamlessly yet securely follows the user in their diversity of personal and business roles across a whole raft of converged services.”
“Agència Catalana de Certificació - the Catalan Certification Agency - has become a key player in the identity management area for Catalan public administrations, leading the adoption of interoperable solutions and designing new semantics for the exchange of identified, authorized and signed documents. Becoming a member of Liberty Alliance is a fundamental step towards sharing knowledge and experiences with other key players that can lead to the deployment of effective solutions in the eGovernment field. The Liberty Alliance specifications provide a foundation to build innovative solutions that allow public administrations to transform paper-based processes into active and dynamic electronic procedures, incorporating the key aspects of identification, authorization and signature. Interoperable electronic identity management is a crucial aspect of the European Union political agenda to reach the i2010 objectives agreed in the Manchester Declaration, a goal that needs the deployment of global networks of federated systems, like those based in services leveraging the Liberty Alliance open standards. ”
“2FA Technology is delighted to become a sponsor member within Liberty Alliance. 2FA is deeply focused on simplifying architecture, procurement, deployment, and end-user usability for strong authentication. The creation of a Strong Authentication Expert Group (SAEG) within Liberty clearly places the Consortium at the forefront of strong authentication strategy and processes faced by consumers, governments and businesses. Their ability to unite the technical community while listening to the needs of user communities is essential to the eventual proliferation of the various strong authentication technologies. 2FA looks forward to contributing to the development of architecture and processes within Liberty that truly simplify all aspects of the strong authentication lifecycle.”
“With Liberty Alliance People Service, consumers and enterprise users can now centrally manage all of their online social relationships using a federated network approach with privacy controls built into the system.”
“Only when identity products from multiple vendors interoperate will organizations be able to realize all of the benefits of wide-scale federation.”
“Liberty's Interoperable Program is about creating a global ecosystem of identity solutions that have been proven to work together in an open federated network environment.”
“With increasing industry demand for better protection against online fraud and identity theft, there can be no question that the time for universal strong authentication has come.”
“Based on the deployments we are seeing around the world, we expect there will be well over 1 billion Liberty-enabled identities and devices by the end of 2006.”
“Liberty is ideal for deployment in the enterprise and business-to-business scenarios because of its SAML base. But Liberty is also ideal for business-to-employee and business-to-consumer scenarios. Its added facilities that make it privacy-friendly.”
“As organizations increasingly migrate to SAML 2.0 technologies, they can count on products that have passed Liberty's interoperability testing for faster and more successful deployments.”
“[Federation] puts a greater level of security and protection in place that currently exists.”
“Liberty Alliance seems uniquely suited to spearhead the development and adoption of technical specifications designed to combat identity theft.”