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Liberty Alliance Continues To Grow
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-08
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The Liberty Alliance Project, a consortium aimed at improving online authentication standards announced this morning the addition of 15 new members to its growing list of powerful players.
Their statement said these new members include: CallingID, ChoicePoint, Diamelle Technologies, Falking Systems LLC, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information, LogicaCMG, Livo Technologies, MedCommons Inc., National Board of Taxes Finland, Omnibranch, Inc., Phase2 Technology, Purdue University, SSC New Zealand Gov't., Telecom Italia and TERENA.
"Members join Liberty Alliance to ensure their organization is represented in the development of open technologies, business and privacy guidelines and best practices for successful identity management," said George Goodman, president of the Liberty Alliance management board and director, Platform Capabilities Lab at Intel. "After forming the Strong Authentication Expert Group and the Identity Theft Prevention Group in 2005, we are pleased to welcome a variety of new members interested in addressing these and other pressing identity issues head-on in a collaborative and multi-vendor environment."
With leadership in federation, the Liberty management board and individual members are uniquely positioned to further drive successful identity-enabled Web services and interoperable strong authentication. The Liberty Alliance management board currently consists of representatives from AOL, Ericsson, Fidelity Investments, France Telecom, General Motors, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems and Vodafone.
Liberty is the only global identity organization with a membership base that includes IT vendors, enterprises, government and educational organizations as well as end user companies. This diverse membership ensures that all output from the Alliance meets the real world business requirements of Liberty members and their partners and customers. Liberty members work collectively to develop non-proprietary identity specifications that interoperate and deliver real business value.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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