Entries Tagged as 'Information Cards'

Monday, November 16th, 2009

MIA Apologies for Identity Verification Posts

By Jodi Florence
Sorry both John and I have been missing in action for a few weeks.  But on the bright side, the lack of blog posts of late means this one is jammed packed full of relevant identity news!
I’ll start by highlighting a blog post on identity verification from our partner Oracle.  Brian Mozinski does [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Identity & Privacy

On the heels of the privacy workshop in Washington this past Monday (which regrettably I was unable to attend) and Burton Group’s Catalyst 09 event in San Diego two weeks ago where Privacy was a featured track one day, I want to mention some important things going on in the identity industry and point out [...]

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

“Secret Questions” Give Dynamic KBA a Bad Wrap

One of the biggest misconceptions we are constantly addressing is the confusion between shared secret questions and dynamic knowledge based authentication questions. And this week’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy isn’t helping to clear up the confusion since Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University are showing that the secret questions used to secure the [...]

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

At RSA 2009

Spending the week in sunny San Fran for the annual RSA security conference.  A great kick-off to the conference was the Liberty Alliance Workshop that took place yesterday called “Harnessing the Power of Digital Identity.”  We’ve been involved in the Information Card Foundation since it was formed and have been a leader in helping to [...]

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Online ID Verification Through the Mail? That’s Irony.

So I stumbled on some news from a European company called MyID.is and their Paypal approach to help consumers tie real world identities to their virtual world identities.  While the concept is interesting, I somewhat question its ability to scale.  Although it seems to be working in Europe, in our instant gratification world where we [...]