Stories about: Liberty Alliance

The Kantara Initiative, formed to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services, launched on Wednesday with big-name backers like Oracle, Intel, eBay's PayPal, AOL, CA, Novell, Fidelity Investments, Liberty Alliance, Boeing, Internet Society and British Telecom.

Michael Barrett, CISO of PayPal; Joseph Moorcones, vice president for worldwide information security at Johnson & Johnson; and Lynn Mattice, vice president and CSO for Boston Scientific, are among the industry's most outstanding CISOs. Here these well-respected security executives offer their insights on New Data Center-style, next-generation security, as well as give tips for securing everything from budgets to WANs.

As the U.K. government moves ahead with a national identification card plan, it should be based on open standards, the executive director of the Liberty Alliance said at a press briefing in London.

While there is high interest in identity federation, the technology is still in flux and will likely be more expensive and time-consuming to implement immediately rather than three years from now, an identity and access management expert said Thursday.

Standards body the Liberty Alliance Project believes it can contribute something currently missing from the ongoing debate on tackling identity theft -- a lexicon of terms defining exactly what constitutes ID theft. The alliance, which focuses on developing open standards for federated network identity, revealed its work on the lexicon Tuesday.

Rampant identity theft is eroding users' trust in the Internet, and could threaten to erase some of the progress companies have made in doing business online, according to security experts.

Microsoft is working on restructuring its identity management platform, adding services directly into the operating system with an eye toward lessening users' current integration chores.