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Security:
PostX Implements Liberty Alliance
Phase 2 Specifications
PostX, a leader in ensuring the secure electronic delivery of information
vital to business and customer relationships and an associate member of the
Liberty Alliance, announced plans to implement the Liberty Alliance
Phase 2 specifications into the PostX Enterprise platform, which will provide
an open and commonly accepted platform for companies and other organizations
to build interoperable identity-based Web services.
The Liberty Alliance Phase 2 specifications will enable the promotion of
standards within its growing customer base. As relationships become more
complex between partners, it is critical to have an agreed upon standard for
federated identity, to protect businesses, but more importantly, to improve
customer productivity.
"We are pleased to show our support and commitment to the Liberty
Alliance," said Thampy Thomas, CEO and Chairman of PostX. "The Phase 2
specifications will enable us to provide businesses secure delivery of email
to their customers, partners and employees. It sets the standard for what a
secure messaging solution needs to deliver in today's enterprise
environment."
"Liberty Alliance, through its broad membership and high industry profile,
has clearly established itself as an important group addressing Web services
security through federated identity standards," said James Kobielus, senior
analyst at Burton Group. "Concurrently, several industry vendors publicly
announced commitments to implement the Liberty Version 2 specifications in
their products over the coming year. PostX's support for Liberty Version 2 is
encouraging, because it shows deepening vendor support for the standard
throughout diverse product niches, such as secure messaging."
The Liberty Alliance Project today announced availability of a public
draft of the Phase 2 specifications, which introduce the Identity Web Services
Framework (ID-WSF). ID-WSF outlines the technical components necessary to
build interoperable identity-based web services that meet specific business
needs and also protect the privacy and security of users' shared
information.
Phase 2 also introduces the Identity Services Interface Specifications
(ID-SIS), a collection of specifications that will provide a standard way for
companies to build interoperable services like registration profiles, contact
books, or calendar, geo-location or alert services.
Finally, Phase 2 updates the first set of Liberty specifications
(originally known as version 1.1), and uses them as the foundation for the
Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF), which provide standards for simplified
sign-on and federation or "linking" among disparate accounts within a group of
businesses that have established relationships. Please visit www.projectliberty.org for more
details on this announcement.
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