In effort to develop more secure online transaction services, Kantara and the Open Identity Exchange have introduced their most recent collaborative effort in online trust ecosystems.

The Kantara Initiative has officially partnered with The Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a nonprofit provider of certification trust frameworks for online identity, to announce the trust framework adoption plan. This development in digital trust frameworks can increase secure logins and e-commerce applications. Idenitiy credentials can now be produced by one site but remain compatible to all other sites. 
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In our continuing podcast series on identification standards, Don Thibeau, executive director at the The OpenID Foundation and chairman and president of The Open Identity Exchange, speaks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the ID standards landscape and some of its different projects. OpenID may be the one ID standard that many people are already using but don’t even realize it.

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A simplified security application for organizations from Oracle is now available. The Oracle Identity Management 11g is designed for password management and strong authentication and authorization. Additionally the service works to extend the cloud computing environments which enables a single point of control for both on-premise and off-premise applications.

The Oracle Management 11g product line is a suite of Oracle services. Together the services offer a view of an organization’s security. Some products included in the line are the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 11g, a fraud prevention service with One Time Password Anywhere, utilizing SMS, email and instant messaging technology. 
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An Open Identity for Business Interopability demonstration and an Authorization Standards Workshop will take place in San Diego at the Burton Catalyst event on July 27.

Businesses are faced with more options and decisions when it comes to addressing secure identity solutions. The event comes from the Kantara Initiative, an open forum allowing secure identity software users to divulge the existing challenges of the industry. Collaborarors include the OpenID Foundation, the Information Card Foundation, the Open Identity Exchange and Identity Commons. 
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M2SYS Technology has released a multi-modal biometric software solution called the Hybrid Biometric Platform. The Hybrid Biometric Platform is a client/server system that supports the use of fingerprints, finger veins, palm veins and iris recognition as a form of biometric authentication with the system designed so that customers are not locked into one biometric mode should they decide to change or add new modes in the future. 
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Hitachi ID Systems has worked to address the trends in the identity and access management market as reported in the February 2010 report “Market Trends: Identity and Access Management Market, Worldwide 2007-2013” from Gartner. The top trends were identified as: vendor consolidation, passwords acting as primary authentication, strong interest in cloud computing and software-as-a-service, internal controls as the key driver for ID management projects, and the fact that many of these projects continue to fail or run over-budget.

As passwords continue to be the authentication tool of choice the need to secure that medium becomes a necessity as well. Hitachi ID Password Manager manages all authentication factors allowing organizations to consolidate the management of passwords, security questions, biometric samples, smart cards, one-time passwrod tokens and full-disk encryption keys, and hereby eliminating the risk associated with overused passwords. 
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IdentiSys Inc. announced the acquisition of Card Solutions Corporation, located in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Founded in 1999, Card Solutions provides ID management, card issuance, and security solutions to the health care, education, casino, corporate, financial, emergency management, and government markets in South Florida.