IBM has joined the Internet security consortium Liberty Alliance at the request of a customer, European mobile telecommunications provider Orange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Liberty Alliance is a group of technology providers and corporations, such as Fidelity and American Express, that is developing a set of industry standards for verifying a person’s identity when he or she accesses Web sites. The consortium, which was founded by Sun Microsystems and others in 2001, has over 150 members now. IBM will also become a board member of Liberty and seek to find a common ground between the Liberty standards and an overlapping set of specifications that IBM backs, according to the company.<\/p>\n
The computing giant’s Tivoli Access Manager security software already complies with Liberty. IBM added the support earlier this year. Until then, IBM had stayed clear of Liberty.<\/p>\n
The company last year was a co-author of another technical specification, called WS-Federation, which was designed for many of the same tasks as the Liberty standards, such as verifying a network ID across several Web sites at once. However, in July, IBM signed a $50 million deal to build a single sign-on network for Orange, the mobile service provider of France Telecom, which is using Liberty-based software to offer network services to customers. The system will allow users of the Orange cellular network to sign on to the system using either a mobile phone or a personal computer.<\/p>\n
With a single ID, the subscriber will be able to access services offered by France Telecom and its partners. The service will allow users to automatically retrieve passwords in a secure manner.<\/p>\n
IBM said that it will continue to develop WS-Federation and related Web services security specifications, notably WS-Security. IBM said that it ultimately favors a single standardized method for so-called federated identity management.<\/p>\n
Microsoft, too, has its own authentication service, called Passport.<\/p>\n
But industry support for that service has never caught on widely and is used only in a limited way by Microsoft and its close partners.<\/p>\n
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