Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the webcast, ‘SOA: Protecting the Architecture by Leveraging Standards.’ This public event will take place on Wednesday, July 18 from 8:00-9:00 a.m. US PT and will focus on the business challenges involved in protecting SOAs and a potential solution based on injecting identity into all of the layers of the architecture to enable single-sign-on (SSO) and enforcement of policy across the deployment. more

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Blinksale, the online invoice service has just announced support for OpenID.

OpenID seems to be increasing in popularity, as adoption and support grows. Check out this good article: Could OpenID be Our Savior to the Social Network Blues? on the benefits that OpenID can bring to social websites.

NetIDme

Sun Microsystems will support OpenID. Through its new initiative, Sun is exploring what changes and practices are needed to make OpenID applicable to a broader spectrum of business and IT challenges. The company will actively encourage participation from customers and technology partners through a series of activities and real-life implementations. 

In order to explore the boundaries of OpenID as a trust system, Sun is offering an OpenID Provider service to its 34,000 employees. People using Sun-based OpenID identifiers at an OpenID-accepting website can convey in this simple and secure manner that they are indeed Sun employees, a piece of information that can enable access to employee discounts and unlock other special services all across the web. Sun will work with partners to extend special services on this basis.

To obtain more information on Sun’s OpenID initiative, visit http://developers.sun.com/identity.

As Sun has recognised, a verified OpenID service like NetIDme, is a valuable tool that enterprises can employ to improve trust & security, without limiting usability.

OpenID 2.0 support is now in Drupal 6 core.  OpenID is a decentralized, secure single sign-on system. It allows you to create a login at a site you frequent, and use that same login on any other site that supports OpenID.  Drupal 5.x and below have supported this with the built-in Drupal module, but OpenID is an open standard, better supported, and more secure. more

NetIDme Verified OpenId Service coming soon.