http://www.projectliberty.org Keep up to date with every press release from the Liberty Alliance http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/zero_day_threat_focus_of_may_7_liberty_alliance_privacy_in_an_online_web_2_0_world_webcast http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/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.