Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH) OATH Announces New Co-Chair and Member Pavilion at upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco in April.
San Jose, CA March 13th, 2009 – OATH, the Initiative for Open AuTHentication, today announced that the organization has appointed Philip Hoyer as new Co-Chair of the Technical Focus Group.
Philip Hoyer is a Senior Architect in the office of the CTO at ActivIdentity. His main responsibilities are technical strategy, technical presales, strategic partnerships and standards. He is a recognized subject matter expert for authentication especially in financial services and e-government and frequently speaks at major security conferences. He has over 15 years experience architecting, building and delivering IT solutions with a first class honors degree in Software Engineering from Westminster University.
“We recognize the value that Philip brings to our organization as a technical expert on authentication, he is also active in the organization helping to advance the open authentication technologies that are promoted by OATH,” said Don Malloy, director of business development for Nagra ID Security, Los Angeles, and OATH’s marketing chair. “Philip has participated in and led a number of initiatives for OATH including the ongoing development of the Validation Service Protocol, Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC) and OCRA - Oath’s Challenge Response Algorithm.”
“I feel honored and excited to have the opportunity to take up this role and to drive first hand the next steps that will make the OATH reference architecture and ubiquitous use of strong authentication a reality in a standard and royalty-free ecosystem” said Philip Hoyer.
OATH is sponsoring a Pavilion at the upcoming RSA conference in April. This is the fourth year where member companies will promote their OATH enabled products and demonstrate interoperability. Participating vendors include: 2FA, AnxeBusiness, Aradiom, BioKey, Mega AS, Nordic Edge, Portwise and Verisign at Booth #2139.
About the Initiative for Open AuTHentication
The Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH) is the industry’s leading collaboration of device, platform and application companies, and end user customers of authentication technologies. OATH participants hope to foster use of strong authentication across networks, devices and applications. OATH participants work collectively to facilitate standards and build reference architecture for open authentication while evangelizing the benefits of strong interoperable authentication in a networked world. As OATH grows, the organization is actively seeking feedback and technology contributions from end-user participants who share a common vision for open authentication technology and the products that provide this important measure of security.
OATH is dedicated to helping customers reduce the cost and complexity of deploying strong authentication within enterprises, and across the Internet. Since its formation four years ago, OATH’s membership includes security industry leaders from token manufacturers, platform vendors, smartcard providers, and security services companies. End user companies are joining OATH to add their voice and ideas towards the goal of open authentication.
To join OATH, go to: http://www.openauthentication.org/membership/. To learn more about OATH, e-mail i...@openauthentication.org or visit http://www.openauthentication.org.