Hello everyone
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Hello everyone
I do hope all our North American members and participants had an enjoyable and peaceful Thanksgiving. We are into the final stretch! It's hard to believe we are at the year's end and this will be my last Director's Corner that you might see before the New Year - I guess it depends on how diligent I am on December 31st...
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November brought Kantara's official speaking engagements to a close for the year, tho' we are aware that our members continue to sponsor events right through to the end of the year. Kantara is deep into 2019 planning mode with discussions underway with conference organizers, the Leadership Council discussing the composition of the Work Groups and their deliverables, and the resulting pro-forma budgets to locate the resource gaps.
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The month finished with the London conference Think.Digital Identity - an event primarily targeted at the public sector that offered interesting insights into the current state of digital identity in the UK. Kantara was a a media partner for the event and Kantara members ForgeRock and Ubisecure supported the conference with sponsorship. Both members enjoyed podium time on panels as did Kantara. The highlight of this conference for me was seeing around 70% of the audience raised raise their hands in response to my question "Who has heard of Kantara?" It was a tribute to UK members, participants and marketing Marketing's efforts on social media that Kantara's different ethos, open community and artefacts was were so well known in this challenging market.
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It is with great pleasure that we welcome new individual member Silvia Knittl from Europe and a clutch of renewing members in the Trust Framework Operations & Assurance Program. ID.me Kantara's first service provider carrying the Kantara NIST 800-63-3 conformity assessment Trust Mark at IAL2 and AAL2, while still also retaining its NIST 800-63-2 Mark. Verizon Synchronoss partner Zentry also renewed its membership and Trust Mark for its service, as did USPS. Thank you USPS and Zentry! Finally Kantara Accredited Assessor, KUMA.pro renewed for a further 12 months. Thank you KUMA!
I won't have many more opportunities to say a great big THANK YOU! for your support this past year and on behalf of the incredibly dedicated Kantara staff team, we look forward to serving your interests in 2019.
Kind Regards,
Colin
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