"Liberty Alliance brings together an exciting array of companies from many industries to define these standards, and we are looking forward to working with our customers and member companies to make implementation a reality across all the hardware platforms we provide," George O. Goodman, director of system software at Intel, said.
The alliance late last year finalized its framework for sharing user identification among web services. The Liberty Identity Web Services Framework rounded out the organization's previously released Federation Framework, technology that would enable a user to access services on several web sites using only one username and password.
The web services framework enabled user identity to be shared among web sites based on web services standards, such as SOAP, XML and WS-Security.
The group, which has about 160 member companies, is currently developing specifications for extending the Federation Framework into geo-location and other services. Beyond technology, the alliance has also taken on the task of developing best practices for businesses interested in deploying its services to protect consumers from privacy violations.
Sun Microsystems started the alliance in 2001 to counter Microsoft's own authentication system, called Passport. Since then, however, the business models of the two efforts have become very different, analysts say.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
