“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.”
“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.”