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April 20, 2009: Fugen Solutions founder and CEO, Lena Kannappan, will moderate the Liberty Alliance Concordia panel discussion on Identity Assurance Interoperability at the RSA conference in San Francisco. Panelists include Equifax, Ron Carpinella; InCommon, Bob Morgan; Nomura Research Institute, Nat Sakimura; New Zealand Government, Colin Wallis; and Telus, Andrew Johnston.
Below is an abstract of the
Identity Assurance interoperability session:
Adoption of corporate federations have made lot
of progress in the last few years. At the same
time, emergence of social networks, rapid
development of web 2.0 services, access to
converged services on pervasive networks and
next generation user generated contents in an
ubiquitous (access to any service using any
device at anytime from anywhere) and an open
internet have empowered the users as never
before. But, user’s internet identity nightmares
such as identity theft, phishing, spam and other
privacy related issues have only increased
multiple folds. As we march towards open
identity models, it becomes important to look at
the faster adoption of identity assurance
services, and uniformity and interoperability
amongst identity service providers in an
inter-federated world. For a simple example, in
the future users with Yahoo or Google or Hotmail
accounts (federated logins etc.) may want to use
their personal IDs to access 401K or other
employee service widgets (web 2.0). Mapping of
these user accounts and recognize them as a
valid employee would require identity assurance
services. The panel will explore
the emerging trends in the need for identity
assurance in the context of deployment of
technologies such as SAML, Web Services,
Information Cards, and OpenID and discuss the
relevant initiatives by the deployers/customers.
The topics will cover the areas of risk
classification and assurance levels,
authentication context, service assessment
criteria for organizations, credential
management & identity proofing; business rules
and certification models. For
more details check
http://www.projectconcordia.org/index.php/April_20_pre-conference_workshop |
