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New IDESG Service Empowers Organizations to Better Protect Digital Identities

Registry Is Key Step in Growing Healthy and Secure Online Identity Ecosystem
Marketwired Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG)

Jun 6, 2016 8:00 AM

WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Jun 6, 2016) – The Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) — an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the future of trusted digital identities — today announced a new service that empowers organizations to improve the way they handle identities. The Identity Ecosystem Framework (IDEF) Registry brings the digital identity community closer to realizing the White House’s vision for trusted identities in cyberspace.

Every organization involved in online identity transactions plays a key role in creating and sustaining a healthy online identity ecosystem. The IDEF Registry allows companies to independently assess their own identity management methods against common industry practices. Using the IDESG’s Identity Ecosystem Framework as a model, organizations can now master and build on commonly accepted criteria for interoperability, privacy, security and usability. Meeting milestones in these subject areas is essential to ensuring that digital identities are protected and trustworthy online.

“This is an essential step in creating a safer environment for online transactions,” said Salvatore D’Agostino, President of the IDESG and CEO of IDmachines, LLC. “By equipping organizations involved in online transactions with a tool to measure where they stand relative to accepted policies and best practices, we’re promoting a safer internet on two levels. We’re making industry-accepted best practices more accessible to organizations who want to meet them, and providing a structured benchmark to organizations and individuals that want to use safer protocols for their digital transactions and information management.”

The Registry is an actionable step in the Identity Revolution, and the first opportunity of its kind for online identity service providers and owners and operators of applications that register, issue, authenticate, authorize and use identity credentials to prove that they operate secure platforms for their customers. Those that voluntarily register with the Registry publicly demonstrate their dedication to best practices in identity management. In addition to increasing participating organizations’ value and trust in the marketplace, the Registry gives them access to their industry’s most cutting-edge methods for identity management.

Initial listers include some of the preeminent companies in the identity space, such as MorphoTrust and PRIVO.

“As a founding member of the IDESG, PRIVO understands the level of commitment, subject matter expertise and vision required to bring the Registry to life,” said PRIVO Co-founder and CEO Denise Tayloe. “We are very proud to be one of the first services to hold ourselves accountable to the IDEF requirements that support a privacy-preserving, interoperable, secure, easy-to-use credential for families we serve, in order to protect and enable young users to engage and transact online.”

The IDESG has a pipeline of applicants and anticipates significant demand to join these early adopters to complete the process. Listing in the IDEF Registry is currently free for those who self attest.

“An Internet built around the identity principles of the Identity Ecosystem Framework, is in the best interest of us all as individuals,” said Mark DiFraia, Senior Director of Market Development at MorphoTrust. “MorphoTrust is proud to be one of the first organizations to join the IDEF Registry because we made the investment to build our online identity solution from the ground up to deliver on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Principles. It is our sincere hope that the combination of NSTIC principles, the IDEF and now the IDEF Registry apply the right amount of pressure to shape the behavior of online players for the benefit of us all.”

For more information on The Identity Ecosystem Framework Registry, visit IDEFRegistry.org.

About the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG)

IDESG is a voluntary, public-private partnership dedicated to developing an Identity Ecosystem Framework (IDEF) and services to better online digital identity. The IDESG looks to advance the Identity Ecosystem called for in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The NSTIC, signed by President Obama in 2011, envisions the identity ecosystem as an online environment where individuals and organizations will be able to trust each other because they follow agreed-upon standards and policies to obtain and authenticate their digital identities. Come see how IDESG is making this happen by joining us in the effort and taking advantage of our services at IDESG.org.

Contact:

Media Contact
Donna Armstrong
ConnellyWorks, Inc.
571-323-2585 x6140
donna@connellyworks.com

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Press Mentions: Art Documentation, vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2015)

My feedback and contributions were acknowledged in Art Documentation, vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2015) “Transferable Skills and the Nontraditional Workplace: A Case Study of Internships with an Art and Design Theory-Focused Journal,” by Rachel Isaac-Menard of Adelphi University.

Abstract—The author outlines a librarian internship in the virtual, nontraditional context of an open-access scholarly journal and research group called Architecture_MPS (architecture_media_politics_society). This group also organizes academic events and offers research materials in its primary area of study—architecture—and the related fields of art, sociology, and design. The importance of such training opportunities is placed in the context of the changing nature of the workplace and, in particular, the ever-more-difficult job-seeking process for librarians. This type of internship indicates possible ways forward for the training of librarians in the humanities and other fields that could help prepare library students for the workplaces of the future.

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#BlackLifeMatters Wikipedia Editathon

A news clip from the New York Public Library’s February 7, 2015 Wikipedia Editathon, #BlackLifeMatters, where I am interviewed about the editing my daughter Jay and I were doing on the life and career of costume designer Judy Dearing, best known for her work on Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama A Soldier’s Play, the 1976 stage adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s book, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf and the musical Once On This Island. Lead story on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s InnovationTrail.com:

http://innovationtrail.org/post/wikipedia-editing-workshops-aim-increase-black-history-content

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West 104th Street Block Association Talks IA

The April 15 issue of the West 104th Street Block Association Newsletter featured the efforts of my design team in an article about the Association’s pending website redesign. I also had the unexpected honor have my profile featured on their website.

As part of the project, my design team conducted interviews, surveys and user testing of current residents, neighbors and prospective residents. These were divided into four test groups including families with children, younger residents (couples and singles), those aged 55 and over and those considering a move to the neighborhood. The block association reported that “The respondents to the survey requested that the website be reorganized to find information more easily with an emphasis on portraying a ‘neighborhood feel.'” Indeed, my team found a great need among the test population for findable and accessible information.

My specific user test population included site users aged 55 and older. Among the requirements of this group, legibility and safety information was the most important need, and descriptive pictures of the block’s people and activities were especially appreciated.

The Information Architecture community also got a shout out:

“We are very lucky to have an information architect on our block to develop our ‘new and improved’ website that will be informative for all our residents.”

It is an honor to be recognized by the block for our contribution, and I thank my teammates for doing such a great job. We expect to launch the new site in June.

Read more about the West 104th Street Block Association Web Redesign.

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Press Mentions: Marketing Land: Redesigning Or Creating A Website? Here’s Why Information Architecture Should Be Priority #1

From “Redesigning Or Creating A Website? Here’s Why Information Architecture Should Be Priority #1: Columnist Shari Thurow explains information architecture, site navigation, and how they relate to one another.” Shari Thurow on February 13, 2015 at 10:37 am
http://marketingland.com/redesigning-creating-website-plan-information-architecture-117040?utm_campaign=feed-main&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner

Of course, I am not saying to ignore the aesthetics of navigation design. Nor am I saying to ignore the user experience. What I am saying is to have a strong foundation that makes sense and is meaningful to users.

I think my colleague, Noreen Whysel, Community Manager for the OWASP Foundation, Operations Advisor for the Information Architecture Institute, and independent researcher, summarizes this well:

“Information architecture is getting people to the information they need quickly, easily and without a lot of hassle. It’s sort of like a good road map. But it doesn’t mean leaving out the scenic overlooks. I’m a big fan of brown highway signs and serendipity. Sometimes you need a big picture view or a detour to get a new perspective on what you are looking for.”

Amen to that, Noreen.

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Press Mentions: O’Reilly Radar: NYC’s PLAN to alert citizens to danger during Hurricane Sandy

From “NYC’s PLAN to alert citizens to danger during Hurricane Sandy A mobile alert system put messages where and when they were needed: residents’ palms.” by Alex Howard |@digiphile October 30, 2012

As more consumers replace their devices in the years ahead, more people around the United States will also be able to receive these messages, benefiting from a public-private partnership that actually worked to deliver on improved public safety.

At least one New Yorker got the message and listened to it:

“If ‘act’ means stay put, then why yes I did,” tweeted Noreen Whysel, operations manager Information Architecture Institute. “It was enough to convince my husband from going out….”

Here’s hoping New York City doesn’t have to use this PLAN to tell her and others about impending disaster again soon.