http://www.projectliberty.org Keep up to date with every press release from the Liberty Alliance http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/openliberty_org_releases_first_open_source_identity_governance_framework_software OpenLiberty.org, the global open source community working to provide developers with resources and support for building interoperable identity-enabled services for enterprises and people, today announced the release of ArisID, the first open source software implementing Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF) components. The ArisID API provides enterprise developers and system architects with a library for building enterprise-grade identity-enabled applications using multiple identity protocols, and lays the groundwork for allowing enterprises to manage and audit the identity requirements of business applications based on declarative IGF policy specifications. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/new_liberty_alliance_group_focuses_on_identity_management_in_the_education_and_human_resources_sectors Liberty Alliance today announced the launch of the public Liberty Alliance Human Resources and Education Special Interest Group (SIG). The goal of the group is to foster interoperability, security and user privacy across online identity-enabled solutions in the global education and human resources sectors. The Human Resources and Education (HR-EDU) SIG will hold its first public face-to-face meeting on October 22 at the ePortfolio & Digital Identity 2008 conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/liberty_alliance_launches_public_french_speaking_digital_identity_management_forum Liberty Alliance today announced the launch of the Liberty Alliance French-speaking Special Interest Group (SIG). Based in Paris with liaison members in other French-speaking countries, the public forum has been created by Liberty members from EIfEL, Entrouvert, France Telecom/Orange and Sun Microsystems. The goal of the forum is to foster a global French-speaking identity community working to advance secure and privacy-respecting identity-enabled applications based on Liberty Alliance specifications and the standardized Liberty Identity Assurance and Liberty Identity Governance Frameworks. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/liberty_alliance_announces_latest_companies_passing_saml_2_0_interoperability_testing__1 Liberty Alliance today announced that products from CA; NTT Software; Ping Identity; RSA, The Security Division of EMC; and Ubisecure have passed Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperability testing. These vendors participated in the second Liberty Interoperable™ event to offer full-matrix and eGovernment profile testing managed by the Drummond Group Inc. Liberty Alliance and the Drummond Group will host a public webcast outlining the benefits full-matrix testing is delivering to the global identity industry at 8 AM US PT (5 pm CET) on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/ca_joins_liberty_alliance_management_board Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trustworthy Internet for businesses, governments and people worldwide, today announced that CA has become a member of the Liberty Alliance Management Board. CA joins Liberty Alliance board members from AOL, BT, France Telecom, Intel, Novell, NTT, Oracle and Sun Microsystems to help drive the strategic direction of Liberty Alliance on a global basis. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/aetna_citi_deutsche_telekom_ag_and_uninett_present_award_winning_applications_at_didw_2008 Liberty Alliance today announced the Case Studies and Stories from IDDY Award Winners panel presentation taking place from 12:20pm - 1:10pm on September 9 at CSO Magazine’s DIDW Conference 2008. The interactive presentation will feature representatives from Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT discussing highlights of identity-enabled applications that have won the 2008 Liberty Alliance IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/liberty_alliance_announces_september_8_identity_assurance_workshop_at_didw_2008 Liberty Alliance today announced a September 8 Identity Assurance Workshop taking place from 1 – 3 pm US PT at CSO Magazine’s Digital ID World 2008 in Anaheim CA. The interactive pre-conference event is hosted by early deployers of the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) and is open to all individuals interested in learning how to drive trust into identity systems that are built using any federation protocol based on four standardized identity assurance levels and corresponding business and policy criteria outlined in the IAF. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/aetna_citi_deutsche_telekom_ag_and_uninett_win_2008_liberty_alliance_iddy_awards Liberty Alliance today announced Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT have won the 2008 IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award. This year the judging panel awarded IDDYs in three categories covering Liberty-based deployments, Liberty-based emerging applications and multi-protocol identity-enabled solutions incorporating open identity specifications from Liberty Alliance. Winners will receive the IDDY Award on-stage at CSO Magazine’s Digital ID World 2008 conference in Anaheim CA on September 9. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/liberty_alliance_releases_identity_assurance_framework Liberty Alliance today announced the first public release of the protocol independent Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF). The IAF details four identity assurance levels to ease and speed the process of linking trusted identity-enabled enterprise, social networking and Web 2.0 applications together based on standardized business rules and security risks associated with each level of identity assurance. Liberty Alliance will launch an IAF identity assurance accreditation and certification program during 3Q 08. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/liberty_alliance_marks_policy_and_privacy_milestone_for_identity_enabled_enterprise_and_web_2_0_applications Liberty Alliance today announced an industry milestone in driving trust and privacy into enterprise and identity-enabled applications based on the release of the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) and the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF). Today’s news is the result of the collaborative development of standardized frameworks and technologies designed to meet cross-industry requirements for policy-based security and privacy systems, with a focus on streamlining the establishment and management of identity and trust across user-driven applications and networks. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/liberty_alliance_announces_first_release_of_identity_governance_framework_components Liberty Alliance today announced the first public release of components of the Liberty Identity Governance Framework. Developed with wide cross-industry support, the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF) is the industry’s first programmatic and auditable open standards-based initiative designed to help organizations better govern and protect identity-related employee, customer and partner information as it flows across heterogeneous applications and networks. http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/liberty_alliance_announces_judging_panel_for_the_2008_iddy_awards Liberty Alliance today announced the judging panel for the 2008 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards. This year judges will be evaluating nominations in three categories: a Liberty-based deployment, a Liberty-based emerging application and a new multi-protocol application category. The call for nominations for the 2008 IDDY Awards ends on Monday, June 16, with winners announced on June 30. IDDYs 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/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.