NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Identity-Enabled Applications in the Healthcare, Financial Services,
Telecom and Open Source Sectors Receive Identity Deployment of the Year
Awards

Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more
trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide,
today announced Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT have won the
2008 IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award. This year the judging
panel awarded IDDYs in three categories covering Liberty-based deployments,
Liberty-based emerging applications and multi-protocol identity-enabled
solutions incorporating open identity specifications from Liberty Alliance.
Winners will receive the IDDY Award on-stage at CSO Magazine's Digital ID
World 2008 conference in Anaheim CA on September 9. A photo of the Liberty
Alliance IDDY Award is available at
http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/news_events/iddy_awards

"Now in its third year, the Liberty Alliance IDDY Awards recognize some
of the best-of-the-best enterprise and user-driven identity-enabled
applications in the global marketplace today," said Brett McDowell, executive
director, Liberty Alliance. "Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT are
to be congratulated for demonstrating winning applications that enable
organizations to deliver a variety of secure and more privacy-respecting
identity-enabled services to communities, organizations and people
worldwide."

IDDY Award nominations are evaluated based on criteria that include the
benefits applications deliver to users and organizations; the ROI the
application demonstrates; and how the solution may successfully address
identity issues such as reducing identity theft, meeting regulatory
requirements or providing users with increased security and privacy
protection. The program highlights identity-enabled applications that
leverage any of the secure, privacy-respecting and proven interoperable
Liberty SAML 2.0 Federation, Liberty Web Services (ID-WSF), Liberty People
Service and Liberty Advanced Client specifications.

Representatives from winning organizations will participate in the "Case
Studies and Stories from IDDY Award Winners" panel discussion to be held from
12:20 - 1:10 on Tuesday, September 9 at CSO Magazine's Digital ID World 2008.
All DIDW participants are welcome to attend the presentation with more
information available at
http://public.cxo.com/conferences/agenda.html?conferenceID=24

2008 Liberty Alliance IDDY Award Winners

Aetna - Aetna has received an IDDY Deployment Award for an externally
hosted online provider portal used for linking healthcare providers with
health plans. Working with NaviMedix, the portal includes a variety of tools
including transactions and content hosted by Aetna with interfaces to
third-party Internet Application Service Providers and Content Service
Providers. The deployment was launched in the US in December 2007 and is
currently utilized by healthcare providers in all 50 states.

-- Highlights - The application delivers seamless and secure single
sign-on (SSO) capability into Aetna-hosted applications and identity-enabled
transactions. This enables the use of applications without redevelopment,
giving a common portal presentation to providers adding enablement of web
service transactions within the federated context. Since deploying the
application, Aetna has been able to increase its offerings of tools and
features that help providers conduct simplified administrative transactions,
reduce paper-based communications, and access clinical decision support
tools. The solution allows for the quick roll-out of new applications and
services throughout the provider network.

-- Technologies - The application leverages SAML 2.0 for browser-based
SSO, DSML for downstream identity provisioning, and Web Services Security for
authorization and signature of entitlements. Requests and responses using
X.509 certificates are scheduled for implementation during 3Q of this year.

Citi - Citi's Global Transaction Services has received an IDDY Deployment
Award for providing managed identity services that help institutional clients
utilize digital credentials and signature technologies in a comprehensive and
legally binding manner. Citi is both a Credential Service Provider and a
Relying Party as defined in the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF).
As a trusted financial services provider to the world's top corporations and
governments in more than 100 countries, Citi is addressing identity
challenges in establishing trust in B2B and B2G identity-enabled transactions
by coupling rigorous internal processes with proven identity management
technologies.

-- Highlights - The goal of managed identity services is to create value
for Citi clients including: greater visibility into the actions of authorized
end users and their role as defined by internal processes; control and
governance over the access and activities of end users; and assurance of
identity, non-repudiation and document integrity to mitigate risk associated
with sensitive business processes when transacting with business partners.

-- Technologies - The identity-enabled services Citi provides are
dependent on technologies spanning the web (HTTP/HTTPS), web services (SAML,
WS-Security, SOAP), PKI (Certificate Authorities, X.509, PKCS#7), strong
authentication technologies (HSM, KSM) records management and entitlement
management (XACML), identity platforms (RDBMS, LDAP), document formats (PDF,
XML) and development platforms (.NET, Java).

Deutsche Telekom AG - Deutsche Telekom AG has received a Multi-Protocol
IDDY Award for its identity application designed to lower implementation
barriers when it comes to the delivery of Online/IP-based services to
consumers. Initially launched in 2002 and winner of the 2006 IDDY Award, the
application has been steadily enhanced to offer multi-protocol capabilities
for service provider interfaces as well as for authentication methods and
automatic user identification. The application serves the requirements of the
mass market for Online/IP-based consumer applications by providing
fundamental functionalities such as Single Login, Automatic identification,
Single Sign On and Single Logout.

-- Highlights - With Deutsche Telekom AG serving as an identity provider,
the application is a key business enabler for offering Online/IP-based
services to Deutsche Telekom AG customers. The application ensures easy
implementation of consumer services and shortens the time-to-market for new
service offerings. It allows quick and cost-efficient link-up with partners
using the identity standard protocol that fits best and reduces the
complexity of the IT-architecture. The application provides consumers with a
unique and consistent user-interface that is easy-to-use, transparent and
secure.

-- Technologies - With the goal of tying a wide variety of
Online/IP-based consumer services together by means of a common identity
management user experience and to provide scenario-focused login methods, the
application currently supports SOAP/XML, Secure Token Service, ID-FF 1.2,
SAML 2.0, HTTP Basic and HTTP Digest, as well as different authentication
methods. The underlying architectural guidelines make it possible to
integrate further IDM protocols with the latest enhancements moving to
provide preliminary support for OpenID 1.1, OpenID 2.0 and Microsoft
CardSpace.

UNINETT - has received an Emerging Application IDDY Award for
SimpleSAMLphp, an open source lightweight implementation of several
federation protocols written in PHP. Free to download and available in 15
languages, simpleSAMLphp is a platform for quick implementation of emerging
standards or identity-enabled proof-of concept (POC) applications. The
software implements Web SSO, and can be applied in any deployment where users
need to be authenticated to a World Wide Web Service.

-- Highlights - The simpleSAMLphp core is widely used in production
deployments, providing a platform for use where the path from POC to
production does not need to be long. With simple installation, configuration
and maintenance, users save time, resources and money. The flexible solution
integrates with existing systems and makes it easy to incorporate new
emerging standards. Features such as the User Consent module give users more
control and knowledge about the exchange of personal data when conducting
online identity-enabled transactions.

-- Technologies - SimpleSAMLphp supports identity protocols such as SAML
2.0, Shibboleth 1.3 and WS-Federation. Experimental functionality is ongoing
with several other protocols including OpenID, A-Select and PAPI.

About the Liberty Alliance IDDY Award

The Liberty Alliance IDDY Award recognizes digital identity deployments
and the up-and-coming identity-enabled applications that incorporate identity
specifications and policy frameworks from Liberty Alliance. Previous IDDY
Award winners are eBIZ.mobility, EduTech, Deutsche Telekom AG, The New
Zealand Government, NTT Labs, Rearden Commerce and the UK Government
Authentication Gateway. Judges for the 2008 award include Bob Bragdon,
Publisher, CSO Magazine; Michael Barrett, CISO, PayPal, Inc.; Michelle
Dennedy, CPO, Sun Microsystems; John Fontana, Senior Editor, Network World;
Gerry Gebel, VP & Service Director, Identity and Privacy Strategies, Burton
Group; Paul Madsen, Liberty Alliance Technology Expert Group and Identity
Standards Researcher, NTT; Roger Sullivan, president of Liberty Alliance and
vice president Oracle Identity Management; and Robin Wilton, Liberty Alliance
Public Policy Expert Group and Corporate Architect, Sun Microsystems. More
information about the IDDY including links to case studies detailing previous
winning applications is available at
http://projectliberty.org/liberty/news_events/iddy_awards

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