Greetings folks
This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact the ED colin@kantarainitiative.org
...
Media | Link |
Security Week | http://www.securityweek.com/kantara-initiative-assists-eu-privacy-and-gdpr-issues |
Hackbusters | |
Global Security Mag | http://www.globalsecuritymag.com/Kantara-Initiative-Joins-European,20170404,70067.html |
Biz Dallies | |
IT Security | |
Digi.me | |
Kantara Initiative | https://kantarainitiative.org/kantara-initiative-joins-european-trust-foundation/ |
Insightaas | http://insightaas.com/kantara-initiative-joins-european-trust-foundation/ |
...
Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
- The WGs and DGs of Leadership Council now operate a blog, so you can read what's going on in groups you are not regularly attending. See it here
- ID Pro DGwork is making good progress with Membership/Services and Governance. Those things need to take shape fast now, as corporate interest in becoming founding members with requisite seed funds support was very much in evidence at RSA. We have 3 large well known corporations interested in supporting ID Pro as founding members. We need 3 more to make it happen. has a new logo!
that you can find on the early phase of a new website: idpro.org and on Twitter @idpro_org. If your organization wants to be acclaimed as a founding member of a new Association of Digital Identity Professionals, please email me, colin@kantarainitiative.org . The Consent Receipt 45 day Public Review finished on February 20th with a good bunch of comments from across the globe. Voltage Gate's David Turner is in the editing chair and is preparing the disposition of comments for Consent and Information Sharing Work Group to review and during March. - The Identity Assurance Working Group is reviewing the officially published 800-63-3 draft and preparing a further round of comments to augment those submitted on the GitHub pre-release in the summer.The Identity Relationship Management Working Group are its new Charter and is preparing some exciting new plans to support the Identity Assurance program this year.
- The Federation Identity Working Group is poised to vote through their draft 'Refining the Design Principles of Identity Relationship Management' Report as a follow up to its initial 'Principles' report that attracted worldwide attention. I'm sure this one will too.The eGovernment Working Group is poised to vote through its draft interim report 'Code of Conduct for Relying Parties' to support the Identity Assurance program and future conformance assessments.its draft 'SAML V2.0 Implementation Profile for Federation Interoperability' - a joint effort between the global R&E community and Kantara, which is designed to converge requirements and conformance into a single easy profile.
- KIPI - the Kantara Identity, Privacy Incubator, has 3 live projects that have a potential funding value of up to US $2.4Million!
- As always if you have a query or question, staff are only too willing to assist. Email them on staff@kantarainitiative.org
...