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It was great to welcome Neustar as our most recent Trust Mark holder for a component service conforming to Kantara's NIST 800-63-3 Class of Approval under Kantara's Identity Assurance Trust Framework. There are several more in assessment as I write, so 2021 is set to be a pivotal year as Kantara's Trust Framework goes mainstream. Why Why now you might ask? I've asked myself the same question in recent months. In discussions with Assurance Director Ruth, Assurance Review Board Chair Leif, the main Board and regulars on the Identity Assurance Work Group calls, we have put it down to the 'perfect storm' that the current climate has created. Firstly (and So in no particular order...
1) thereThere's the 'noise' around Trust Frameworks. That's good, because Kantara has been operating a Trust Framework for conformity assessment and assurance since 2011 when the very first Trust Framework in this space (FICAM) was launched by the US Federal Government. By design Kantara's was built to operate stand-alone as it is seen by most today, or operate as the conformance and assurance sub-set of another Trust Framework as it was under FICAM. As folks look at the other Trust Frameworks operating today such as eIDAS in Europe, at the TDIF (Trust Digital Identity Framework) in Australia, and they hear about the PCTF in Canada coming on-stream soon, and the Trust Frameworks being drafted in the UK and , New Zealand and elsewhere, they are better able to understand the crucial role that Kantara's Trust Framework plays. For many organisations January heralds the commencement of a new financial year where plans and budgets begin to be put into action. Kantara is eternally grateful for the membership and sponsorship that results from the strategic decisions taken by organizations to invest in our community for the betterment of the wider digital identity
and privacy ecosystem. Remember that each existing Individual or Organization level member in good standing that introduces a prospective Organization level member that subsequently pays its member dues before the introducing member's next renewal anniversary, gets 25% of the new member's membership level rebated off the introducing member's membership renewal to a maximum of 100% of the introducing member's membership level. At Kantara, everyone benefits!2) There's a growing realization that NIST SP 800-63-3 (and soon revision 4) remains as the de jure de facto standard just as its predecessor 800-63-2 (or in its international guise ISO/IEC 29115 or ITU-T's x.1254 Entity Authentication Assurance) was. You can find elements of these in eIDAS Implementing Acts, in the UK's GPGs, in Canada's early work on CATS, in New Zealand's Authentication standards fr online services. Authentication requirements in Australia's TDIF are pulled straight from 63-3. Slam dunk. So if you are an international IDaaS brand and looking for the most cost effective conformance that gets you most of the way in most jurisdictions to minimize the in-country conformance lift, what standard are you going to choose to build your product against?
Thank you for rejoining ID Crowd! It's great to have you back, as we celebrate the renewals from the Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand Government, Board Director digi.me, Accredited Assessor Zygma, Patient Centric Solutions, and NeoCapita in Australia.
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