29 November 2005

OATH Unveils 2006 Roadmap For Open Authentication Technology

OATH, the Initiative for Open AuTHentication, has unveiled its 2006 technology roadmap that builds upon the technical framework for open authentication established by the OATH Reference Architecture released earlier this year.

OATH, who numbers ARM amongst its members, is a consortium of fifty-five leading authentication hardware and software companies, end-user organisations and security professionals dedicated to advancing industry-backed standards for open authentication.

OATH is positioned to deliver industry-endorsed standards for royalty-free open authentication technologies to resolve security threats such as identity theft, phishing, internal security breaches and government compliance requiring a stronger level of authentication than static usernames and passwords.

The 2006 OATH Roadmap outlines specific deliverables that will help realise the goals of device innovation and embedding, interoperability and native application and platform support. Work items currently defined in the OATH Roadmap fall under the following categories: Multiple Token, Device/ Client APIs, Provisioning Protocols and Web Services Security .

"OATH is building on the momentum generated in 2005 through meeting its technology milestones and through membership growth," said Bob Blakley, OATH Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) chair and chief scientist (Security and Privacy), IBM. "Our 2006 roadmap is based on the feedback from customers and end-user company members. Our member companies are committed to achieving each of these milestones for advancing the standards for open authentication in 2006."

Send a request to info@openauthentication.org to receive a copy of the OATH 2006 Roadmap.