150 Global Organizations Working Together to Build a Trusted Digital Ecosystem
In today's information economy, trust is the necessary foundation for secure
interoperability, and central to the successful realization of what's possible
on the Web.
The Liberty Alliance, a consortium representing organizations from around
the world, was created in 2001 to address the technical, business, and policy
challenges around identity and identity-based Web services.
Members Work Closely Together to:
- Build open standard-based specifications for federated identity and identity-based Web services.
- Drive global identity theft solutions.
- Provide interoperability testing.
- Offer a formal certification program for products utilizing Liberty specifications.
- Establish best practices, rules, liabilities, and business guidelines.
- Collaborate with other standards bodies, privacy advocates, and government
policy groups.
- Address end user privacy and confidentiality issues.
What Can Identity Federation Do for You?
- Provide your customers, citizens, employees, and business partners more control
over identity information
- Supply superior security, control, and privacy-improving trust
- Mitigate against breaches and identity theft with no single point-of-failure
- Provision accounts and securely provide access to designated resources both within and outside corporate borders
- Build identity into the foundation of all transactions and personal data services activities
- Eliminate excess passwords and securely implement single sign-on
- Offer a far more satisfactory online experience, and new levels of personalization
- Create seamless and secure business relationships
- Improve authentication with existing internal resources
- Improve shareholder value and compliance procedures by offering a means for better reporting accuracy
- Reduce risk through a more balanced authentication process
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