“Frameworks such as that of the Liberty Alliance, are going to make Web services applications even easier to deliver.”
“For strong authentication solutions to have maximum impact, solutions must be able to interact seamlessly.”
“The real bang for the buck [of Liberty's standards] is to make it easier for commerce to flow on the Internet.”
“There can be no doubt that Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services are allowing organizations to deploy more secure and privacy-respecting identity solutions.”
“The beauty of the Liberty standards is that they enable financial organizations to engage with partners of all sizes, not just the largest organizations. The flexible applicability of the Liberty Alliance technology broadens the trading relationships beyond large peer-to-peer business entities to medium and smaller enterprises that are unable to assume the financial burden of large-scale 'AAA' products, but are nonetheless vital members of the trading community.”
“The work coming out of Liberty’s Strong Authentication Expert Group goes hand-in-hand with the work Liberty has been doing in open, interoperable identity specifications. The key word here is interoperable. For example, one concern that some financial services organizations have is around the emergence of 'token necklaces' that is, requiring consumers to have unique tokens for authenticating themselves at the various financial institutions where they have accounts--thereby forcing multiple tokens on each consumer. ID-SAFE aims to enable these individual mechanisms to interoperate, reducing costs, increasing security and improving ease of use.”
“With more than 150 members representing multiple verticals and governments worldwide, Liberty is uniquely suited to developing a framework that works for everyone. Granted, other organizations are doing some preliminary work on addressing the issue of interoperability. But if the industry is to meet the growing demand for better online security and identity protection, a global effort spanning all vertical segments and worldwide regions is required. Liberty uniquely fits that bill.”
“We believe that federation is going to become a mandatory part of doing business on the Web. For the consumer, it makes their life so much easier by reducing the need for multiple IDs and passwords. Federation is also attractive because it provides a way to maintain privacy and secure identity. With all the problems around ID theft, this is very important.”
“Federated payment is ideally suited for different types of authorizations via a phone because there's no personal information going out over the Web or the airways. It's just an ID and the information is stored at a trusted point in the Circle of Trust.”
“The federated identity standard provides a template for protecting user information and thereby encouraging online usage and commerce. In order for the multiple players in the mobile value chain to reach their revenue potential around micropayments, low cost digital content has to be monetized and identity information protected. For this reason, eBIZ.mobility chose to model its innovative online payment solution on the Liberty Alliance specifications.”
“One of the reasons that Liberty has been so successful to date is that the initiative is being driven by both technology vendors and consumers of technology. Both have to be responsive to each other out of the gate. This enables enterprise customers to help design systems that actually meet business needs and allows vendors to to focus on the product development areas that are most important to their customers.”
“I have to tell you this was smoke and mirrors two years ago, but federation is here now and here in a big way. We have one vendor who we had some early conversations with about federation and Liberty. Back then, they kind of looked as us with blank stares and basically made if fairly obvious that they didn’t want to go in that direction. Then they gave us a call a few months later saying, 'Okay, everybody else that we deal with wants to go there so we’re going there.'”
“General Motors joined Liberty Alliance because we believed that it was important for the industry to have some choice in the technology around identity management. We never believed that a single provider—regardless of whether it was the federal government, Microsoft, or a large bank—would be able to serve the entire Internet. It was important to us that multiple identity providers be able to work together.”
“While the technology may be relatively easy to implement, understanding business imperatives, rules, policies, best practices, and liability challenges are a little more complex in this new model of conducting business. This is why Liberty is focused on both the technology and the business side of implementing identity management specifications and standards. It’s a critical balance and this is the unique value-addition that Liberty brings to the standards arena.”
“Having the correct agreements in place is so critical to achieving success in federated deployments. One of the strengths of the Liberty Alliance is their focus on business and policy guidelines. Liberty provided us with an excellent framework for how to handle authorization and authentication. Liberty Alliance is the only organization that offers policy as well as technology resources, and this makes all the difference.”