BT has joined the management board of theLiberty
Alliancedigital identity
body.
BT joins Liberty Alliance 2008 board members from AOL, France
Telecom, HP, Intel, Novell, NTT, Oracle and Sun Microsystems
towards developing
secure federated identity management systems.
Federated identity management allows web users to use a
single sign-on mechanism to access resources from multiple
sites.
Robert Temple, vice-president of security technologies at the BT
Group Chief Technology Office, said, "BT is expanding its role in
Liberty Alliance to help drive a secure and privacy-respecting
internet identity layer across applications, industries and
regions."
BT joined Liberty Alliance as a sponsor member in 2006. During
2008, BT will participate in the Liberty Alliance Identity
Assurance Expert Group (IAEG) and corresponding public Identity
Assurance Special Interest Group (IASIG).
BT will "advance trusted inter-federations spanning industries,
regions and technologies based on certified identity assurance
levels", said Liberty Alliance.