Press Releases

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.

Liberty Alliance Privacy in an Online, Web 2.0 World Webcast Series Launches April 16

– Liberty Alliance today announced highlights of the first of three webcasts from its 2008 Privacy in Perspective series. Taking Place at 8 am US PT (3:00 UTC) on Wednesday, April 16, the public event is hosted by Robin Wilton, Corporate Architect for Federated Identity, Sun Microsystems and co-chair of the Liberty Alliance Public Policy Group. The webcast will review findings and next steps from the ongoing series of global Liberty Alliance privacy summits held so far in Basel, Berlin, Brussels, London and Washington DC.

Privacy in an Online, Web 2.0 World Focus of New Liberty Alliance Webcast Series

– Liberty Alliance today announced the 2008 Privacy in Perspective webcast series. The webcasts examine online privacy issues from both a consumer and enterprise perspective and present potential solutions for better privacy in the Web 2.0 world. Hosted by leaders in the technology, public policy and media sectors, the Wednesday, April 19, 23 and 30 webcasts begin at 8 am US PT (3 pm UTC) and are open to the public.

Liberty Alliance Showcases Consumer and Business Benefits of Open and Proven Interoperable Identity Standards at RSA Conference 2008

– Liberty Alliance today announced the Identity Federation and Web Services: Happening Today - Enabling Tomorrow workshop taking place at RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco on Monday, April 7 from 1 - 4:30 pm. The interactive event features Liberty Alliance members from CA, Intel, NTT, Ping Identity and RSA presenting case studies, demonstrations and cutting-edge proof-of-concept applications built using open and proven interoperable identity standards from Liberty Alliance.

OpenLiberty.org Releases Open Source Code for Driving Security and Privacy Into Web Services and Web 2.0 Applications

– OpenLiberty.org, the global open source community working to provide developers with resources and support for building interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting identity services, today announced the release of OpenLiberty-J, an open source Liberty Web Services (ID-WSF 2.0) client library designed to ease the development and accelerate the deployment of secure, standards-compliant Web 2.0 Applications. OpenLiberty.org will hold a public webcast to review OpenLiberty-J on April 2 at 8 am US PT.

Global Interoperability and Patient Privacy Focus of New Liberty Alliance Health Identity Management Group

– Liberty Alliance today announced the launch of a global public forum formed to develop an interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting information exchange system for the healthcare sector. The Liberty Alliance Health Identity Management Special Interest Group (HIM SIG) is leveraging the Liberty Alliance model of addressing the technology, business and privacy aspects of digital identity management to meet the unique identity management and regulatory challenges facing the international healthcare industry today.

Liberty Alliance Schedules Four Public Interactive Webcasts to Review and Finalize Identity Assurance Framework Criteria

– Liberty Alliance today released the latest version of the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF). Liberty Alliance is also announcing four public webcasts, each designed to review and gather industry input into primary sections of the IAF as the Framework moves to final during 2Q of this year. The latest version of the IAF is based on recent input from over 40 representatives from the global financial services, government, telecom, healthcare, system integrator and technology sectors and is available for additional review and comment.

Liberty Alliance Announces March 10 Santa Clara Identity Management Implementation Workshop

– Liberty Alliance today announced a digital identity management implementation workshop taking place on March 10 from 9:30am - 5:30pm in Santa Clara, CA. This free public event is for developers, system integrators and technical, business and policy teams interested in understanding how to implement Liberty’s open identity specifications and policy-based governance and privacy frameworks to build and deploy secure and privacy-respecting identity systems.

Google, NTT and the US GSA Deploy SAML 2.0 for Digital Identity Management

– Liberty Alliance today released highlights of SAML 2.0-based digital identity management applications that are delivering real world value to users and organizations around the globe. These applications are among the many public and private sector deployments helping to drive a more secure and privacy-respecting internet identity layer across applications, sectors and regions based on SAML 2.0 standards.

BT Joins Liberty Alliance Management Board

– Liberty Alliance today announced that BT has become a member of the Liberty Alliance Management Board. BT joins Liberty Alliance 2008 board members from AOL, France Telecom, HP, Intel, Novell, NTT, Oracle and Sun Microsystems to drive the strategic direction of Liberty Alliance on a global basis.

Digital Identity Leaders Gather in Washington, DC to Advance Trusted Identity Assurance Levels

– Liberty Alliance today announced the first public face-to-face meeting of the Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Special Interest Group (IASIG) taking place on Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 10:00am – 5:00pm in Washington, DC. The public meeting brings together identity leaders representing a wide range of industries to collaborate on defining standardized assessment criteria and accreditation rules for the new Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Certification Program scheduled for launch during 2Q of this year.

Liberty Alliance Announces First Companies to Pass Full-Matrix SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing

– Liberty Alliance today announced that products from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, Sun Microsystems and Symlabs, Inc. have passed Liberty Alliance testing for SAML 2.0 interoperability. These vendors participated in the November 2007 Liberty Interoperable™ event administered by the Drummond Group Inc. and are the first to pass full-matrix testing Liberty Alliance incorporated into its interoperability program this year. All of these vendors also passed Liberty Alliance testing against the US GSA SAML 2.0 profile, meeting the prerequisite interoperability requirements for participating in the US E-Authentication Identity Federation.

Identity Services Deployment Hurdles Lowered By Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Framework Release

– Liberty Alliance today announced the public release of the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF). The IAF has been developed by Liberty’s Identity Assurance Expert Group (IAEG) to simplify and speed the deployment of identity federations by standardizing identity assurance levels and the certification process for all identity assurance service providers participating in federated relationships. Liberty Alliance will hold a public webcast to review the Identity Assurance Framework on Thursday, November 29, at 8 am US PT.