The letter has been signed by organisations from 21 countries including the American Library Association, the UK's Foundation for Information Policy Research, the Consumer Federation of America, the Australian Privacy Foundation and the Fédération...
Morgan Chase, said: "The problem with federation is you're putting a lot of eggs in one basket, with a single point of failure. He cautioned that a failure in the federation approach could greatly damage consumer confidence.
The product is compatible with several federated identity standards and specifications, including Liberty, SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Security and WS-Trust. IBM is today expected to unveil its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, which allows a...
Hewlett-Packard plans to acquire Trustgenix, a company that allows users to authenticate their identity to access accounts on multiple sites. Trustgenix, a Santa Clara, California-based company, develops so-called identity federation software...
Federation would essentially mean government departments would share the public's identities across their systems and authenticate against one another. However, Brown expressed concerns that in an age of identity theft federation could play into...
Speaking about an integrated smartcard to authenticate digital and physical access to a building, he said: "Give users smartcards and eliminate the risk of them leaving it in the keyboard by requiring them to use it to get out of the building.