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 [...]
One of the great things about CardSpace and the work the Information Card Foundation will be doing is developing how managed cards are going to work in commerce. A good use case is to show an age verified card for situations where you only need to show proof of age — thus limiting the [...]
I’m back from the RSA conference and how exhausting. Understandable considering there were 17,000 people at the show—all focused on the security industry.
In case you didn’t see it, we made an announcement during RSA about our partnership with Upek, a biometrics company based in the Bay area. What I find exciting about this partnership is [...]
Zach Martin, editor of CR80 News recently published an article about the identity and age verification issues we are facing in social networks. You definitely should check it out but in case you don’t have time here are some important highlights:
When trying to get into a bar or club there is typically someone at [...]
Have you heard about the latest scam from the bad guys? It appears they too have learned how much impact marketing has on a “business” and purchased some keywords for Google and Yahoo ads. This article by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz of USA Today explains it well and will bring you up [...]
So sunny San Fran turned out to be not so sunny this week. But the outlook for identity is definitely very bright!
There were definitely some significant events at the show. First, Symantec’s announcement at DEMO the week before to provide an Identity Service and their demonstration (with our technology supporting it I might add) [...]
