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Aetna, BT, SUNET and the US GSA Lead New Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Review Board
August 2009 by Marc Jacob
Kantara Initiative, a global identity community working to solve harmonization and interoperability challenges among identity-enabled enterprise, Web 2.0 and Cloud applications and services, today announced that representatives from Aetna, BT, SUNET/NORDUNet and the US GSA have taken leadership positions on the Kantara Initiative Assurance Review Board (ARB). The ARB oversees the Grant of Rights for use of the Kantara Initiative Assurance Mark, a mark of quality demonstrating that organizations have met stringent identity management criteria outlined in the protocol independent Identity Assurance Framework (IAF).
Marks will initially be awarded in two categories, one to industry assessors indicating they meet requirements to assess identity services for compliance to the IAF, and one to identity services that have been certified by these assessors against the four identity assurance levels detailed in the IAF. Services earning the Kantara Initiative Assurance Mark have successfully satisfied the organizational management, identity proofing, and credential management criteria associated with each identity assurance level.
Certified identity services eliminate the need for organizations to “reinvent the wheel” each time they need to assess the risk of accepting identity credentials from an outside party, making it easier and faster to deploy new services.
