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Strata Identity Promotes Gerry Gebel to Vice President of Product and Standards

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Head of Standards, Gerry Gebel, will also serve as the company’s Vice President of Product.

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  • Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Head of Standards, Gerry Gebel, will also serve as the company’s Vice President of Product.
  • For over 20 years, Gerry has provided requirements definitions, architecture development and strategic planning for identity management projects with Fortune 500 corporations.
  • In addition to his work promoting industry standards with IDQL for identity and policy orchestration with the CNCF on Hexa and the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group , Gerry assumes responsibility for overseeing the Strata product management team and defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
  • “The identity landscape is at an inflection point with legacy identity systems reaching end-of-life and cloud identity providers creating a new set of silos that prevent organizations from unifying identity and policy management across multi-clouds,” said Gerry Gebel.

Okta Ventures Unveils "The Identity 25" to Honor Pioneers Shaping the Future of Digital Identity

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Okta Ventures, the venture investment arm of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent identity partner, proudly introduces "The Identity 25," an initiative that shines a spotlight on the trailblazers in the burgeoning field of digital identity.

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  • Okta Ventures, the venture investment arm of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent identity partner, proudly introduces "The Identity 25," an initiative that shines a spotlight on the trailblazers in the burgeoning field of digital identity.
  • This year's Identity 25 list is a diverse compilation of academics, activists, public servants, entrepreneurs, standard-setters, and technology pioneers.
  • Vittorio Bertocci, Principal Architect of AuthO and board director, OpenID
    "The Identity 25 is an initiative designed to recognize the leading lights in the growing Identity space.
  • To explore "The Identity 25" report and learn more about the incredible individuals shaping the future of digital identity, visit here .

WSO2 Optimizes Developer Experience with Launch of WSO2 Identity Server 7.0

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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WSO2 empowers software developers to address this demand with WSO2 Identity Server 7.0, the latest release of WSO2’s widely adopted, open-source identity and access management (IAM) software.

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  • WSO2 empowers software developers to address this demand with WSO2 Identity Server 7.0, the latest release of WSO2’s widely adopted, open-source identity and access management (IAM) software.
  • WSO2 will demonstrate the latest features in WSO2 Identity Server 7.0, WSO2 Private Identity Cloud, and Asgardeo at the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit in London, United Kingdom, which runs March 4-5, 2024.
  • With Version 7.0, WSO2 Identity Server now shares the same code base and UI with WSO2 Private Identity Cloud and Asgardeo IDaaS.
  • The new capabilities and unified IAM experience are now available with WSO2 Identity Server 7.0 and the latest releases of Asgardeo and WSO2 Private Identity Cloud.

SGNL Announces Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP) Hub

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Monday, March 4, 2024
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CAEP Hub enables dynamic and event based monitoring and enforcement of authorization policies using CAEP (Continuous Access Evaluation Profile).

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  • CAEP Hub enables dynamic and event based monitoring and enforcement of authorization policies using CAEP (Continuous Access Evaluation Profile).
  • "With CAEP Hub, SGNL enables organizations to quickly achieve zero standing privilege in their critical systems, even if those systems don't yet support CAEP"
    In today's era of persistent identity attacks, high-risk standing access is a serious threat to critical enterprise systems.
  • SGNL's CAEP Hub feature includes:
    CAEP adoption has had significant momentum in the last few years.
  • General Availability of CAEP Hub will begin rolling out in Spring 2024 with even further interoperability across systems throughout the year.

Telco API Project CAMARA Shows Strong Ecosystem Momentum at Mobile World Congress 2024, as Industry Embraces Open API Solutions

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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Additionally, CAMARA shared details of its presence and activity onsite at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.

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  • Additionally, CAMARA shared details of its presence and activity onsite at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
  • Since then, the project has grown to 950+ contributors and 320 organizations, along with more 20+ API families and sub-projects, and growing.
  • "Active, open collaboration among network operators, cloud providers, application developers and technology vendors within CAMARA is driving broad engagement and development of connected solutions."
  • A critical success factor is also the established alignment with GSMA Open Gateway and TMForum about forming an open, global, accessible API ecosystem.

Red Hat Extends Java Support in the Cloud with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 8 .

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  • Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 8 .
  • JBoss EAP 8 delivers security enhancements, improved cloud workflow tools, and compatibility with Jakarta EE 10, contributing to streamlined application modernization for customers and continued support for enterprise Java application development.
  • JBoss EAP 8 builds on the lightweight, cloud-native capabilities of Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 to improve developer productivity, reduce operational overhead, and ease the path towards modernization.
  • This also gives customers the ability to further take advantage of cloud native platforms like Red Hat OpenShift while continuing to receive support for their applications.

Backblaze Launches Enterprise Control to Support Advanced Administration and Data Protection Needs

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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Enterprise Control brings the value businesses love in Backblaze Computer Backup—including unlimited backups, one year version history, and simple, affordable pricing—and adds advanced administration tools that large businesses require both to protect workstations and meet ever-evolving cybersecurity requirements.

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  • Enterprise Control brings the value businesses love in Backblaze Computer Backup—including unlimited backups, one year version history, and simple, affordable pricing—and adds advanced administration tools that large businesses require both to protect workstations and meet ever-evolving cybersecurity requirements.
  • “We’re excited at the possibility of having even more control to meet our growing administration and data protection needs with this new Computer Backup with Enterprise Control solution.”
    Backblaze Computer Backup with Enterprise Controls features and benefits include:
    Fine-Grained Permissions: Allows administrators to control access to group member data on a granular level for enterprise operations.
  • “Backblaze Computer Backup with Enterprise Control builds on our history of providing unlimited data backup and ransomware protection for organizations large and small," said Gleb Budman, Backblaze CEO and Chairperson of the Board.
  • Backblaze shared more information about the Backblaze Computer Backup with Enterprise Control on their blog .

Genesis HealthCare System Builds on its Investment in BIO-key Biometric Authentication Security as it Migrates to Epic Hyperdrive

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Thursday, December 14, 2023
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Genesis HealthCare has a network of more than 300 physicians and 4,000 employees across 27 locations.

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  • Genesis HealthCare has a network of more than 300 physicians and 4,000 employees across 27 locations.
  • PortalGuard’s standards-based integration with Hyperdrive allows Genesis HealthCare System to continue enjoying the security and streamlined biometric authentication user experience that BIO-key provides without re-enrolling employees or adopting more cumbersome and expensive multi-factor authentication solutions.
  • PortalGuard provides seventeen authentication factor options, including WEB-key fingerprint authentication, the same core BIO-key biometric authentication platform regularly used by thousands of Genesis HealthCare employees.
  • BIO-key’s Identity-Bound Biometrics allows customers to cost-effectively leverage a phoneless, tokenless, and cardless authentication experience that users prefer because it strikes the proper balance between security and convenience."

IPG Mediabrands' MAGNA Bolsters Data-Driven Video Capabilities in New Partnership with OpenAP

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenAP, the advanced advertising company bringing simplicity and scale to audience-based campaigns in television, and MAGNA, the investment and intelligence arm of IPG Mediabrands, today announced a new partnership that will enable MAGNA to seamlessly build and reach advanced audiences across data-driven video endpoints via a direct integration with Acxiom. MAGNA, which powers planning and investment across the IPG Mediabrands network, will now be able to target and distribute custom audiences using Acxiom data centrally through OpenAP across linear, digital, streaming and programmatic channels, then measure cross-publisher and cross-platform reach and frequency at the end of a campaign.

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  • The partnership underscores MAGNA's commitment to an audience-first future for video advertising.
  • MAGNA will also benefit from first mover advantage on the cross-publisher, cross-platform clean room solution, the OpenAP Data Hub, in early 2024.
  • At MAGNA, we are committed to an audience-first strategy to deliver the insights and precision our clients need to maximize their investments.
  • This partnership with OpenAP simplifies a complex process and gives the actionable data our team's need in the planning stage to maximize our clients' investments," said Dani Benowitz, Global President, at MAGNA.

Expert Technologist Andrew Hughes Joins FaceTec as VP of Global Standards

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023
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SUMMERLIN, Nev., Nov. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- FaceTec Inc., the global leader in 3D face verification software, announces the hiring of Andrew Hughes as VP of Global Standards. The international standards and compliance expert has more than 25 years of experience in digital identity, mobile driver licenses, information security, program management, and IT standards development.

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  • SUMMERLIN, Nev., Nov. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- FaceTec Inc. , the global leader in 3D face verification software, announces the hiring of Andrew Hughes as VP of Global Standards.
  • The international standards and compliance expert has more than 25 years of experience in digital identity, mobile driver licenses, information security, program management, and IT standards development.
  • We are very fortunate to have Andrew joining the FaceTec team.
  • "We are very fortunate to have Andrew joining the FaceTec team.