Microsoft is releasing a second Community Technology Preview (CTP) of U-Prove and related software innovations to help put users in control of how their identity information is shared on the internet. Microsoft is pleased to announce this preview during...

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on “user-centric identity” and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to,...

During ISSE on October 5-7, 2010 in Berlin, Germany Microsoft showed a new proof of concept with our partners in Germany, Fraunhofer FOKUS. As part of our keynote and break-out session, the concept explores privacy-enhanced identity experiences with...

On September 30, 2010 Microsoft received an award at the annual International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy Innovation Awards ceremony in Baltimore, MD . The award acknowledges Microsoft’s release of U-Prove, a privacy...

On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, we are participating in an Open Identity for Business Interop being held by OSIS at Catalyst in San Diego . This multi-protocol interop event includes exercising the US Government identity profiles developed as part of th...

A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control: claims provide an innovative approach for building applications that authenticate and authorize users. Imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests...

Microsoft will keynote on the topic: How will the cloud impact Digital Identity? at the European e-Identity Management Conference in London, UK on June 9-10. “Cloud computing will accelerate the move away from ad-hoc identity solutions toward an...

The OpenID Summit (EU) is an important outreach opportunity for the foundation and a chance for developers, identity providers and relying parties to exchange information in Europe. Topics are expected to include: use cases, issues and problems encountered...

Today, Microsoft is announcing the availability of the Information Card Issuance Community Technology Preview (CTP) to enable the following scenarios with Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 RTM: Administrators can install an Information...

In the category “Best Innovation”, the European Identity Award went to Microsoft for U-Prove . The U-Prove technology, which enables minimal disclosure of identity-related information is considered to be a pioneering effort in enhancing online...

The European Identity Conference & Cloud Summit 2010 , in Munich, Germany kicks-off next week, check out our session below! Hosted by Kuppinger Cole & Partners Our Sessions Kim Cameron 05/04/2010 17:00-17:30 Federated...

Please join us on June 21-25, as Kim Cameron, Microsoft Chief Identity Architect presents a session on Microsoft and the future of Identity Modern business has broken through the brick walls of the building; modern IT has not kept up. If IT is...

Members of the team participated as panelists in the Trust in the Information Society conference in Leon, Spain (February 10-11, 2010). One of the sessions focused on identity as a collaborative foundation , by Microsoft’s distinguished engineer, Kim...

This paper is about how we can prevent that loss of trust and go forward to give Internet users a deep sense of safety, privacy and certainty about who they are relating to in cyberspace. Nothing could be more essential if new Web-based services and applications are to continue to move beyond “cyber publication” and encompass all kinds of interaction and services. Our approach has been to develop a formal understanding of the dynamics causing digital identity systems to succeed or fail in various contexts, expressed as the Laws of Identity. Taken together, these laws define a unifying identity metasystem that can offer the Internet the identity layer it so obviously requires....

Commercial businesses and governments are rolling out identity systems to improve their security and to provide online access to services. Current identity framework efforts (including federated identity protocols such as SAML and OpenID) do not provide...

Today many online interactions require you to disclose identity information. This poses substantial trust challenges, both for the people who disclose the information and for those who receive it. Until now, this problem has been addressed by a simplistic...

Today, we took a first step to make the Microsoft U-Prove technology available! First, core portions of the U-Prove intellectual property via a cryptographic specification (under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise ) are available to any interested...