The government has won an award from the Liberty
Alliance for its efforts in developing and rolling out federated
identity management systems.
The Government Gateway Authentication Service was among the
winners of the Alliance's Identity Deployment of the Year
Awards.
The Liberty Alliance, which is backed by leading financial
services firms and major IT suppliers, promotes the development of
open standards for federated identity management.
Federated identity management is designed to enable users to
access information and applications across different websites and
intranets using a single sign-on process.
The Government Gateway Authentication Service is designed as the
authentication server for all e-government services in the UK.
Nearly eight million citizens are registered to use it.
It enables authentication and single sign-on in support of
joined-up government and has broken down technical silos that had
been hindering a transition to e-government.
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