New Sxipper release with anti-phishing security for OpenID

27 June, 2007 - 10:55am

In fulfilling the commitment we made this past February at RSA with Microsoft, JanRain, and VeriSign, to make the internet safer and easier, we are happy to announce the addition of new anti-phishing technology for OpenID. Our digital identity manager, Sxipper, now provides phishing-resistant OpenID authentication. Sxipper uses the OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE), which is supported through our OpenID4Java library. See the demo and download a new free version of the Sxipper beta!

Sxip Delivers Phishing Resistant Access to Google Apps & Salesforce

27 June, 2007 - 3:00am

Sxip Identity today released support for information cards with Sxip Access, the leading on-demand identity management solution. Sxip Access now enables remote users to employ phishing-resistant identity agents to authenticate to Salesforce and Google Apps with user-centric, Identity 2.0 technologies such as Microsoft Windows CardSpace and the Bandit Project's DigitalMe from Novell. Read the press release for more details or stop by the Interop or Microsoft hospitality suites at the Catalyst Conference for a demo.

Sxip Access & Information Cards at Interoperability Event

22 June, 2007 - 2:57pm

At the Catalyst Conference next week, we will be demoing Sxip Access support for user-centric, Identity 2.0 technologies such as CardSpace by Microsoft and the Bandit Project from Novell in the Burton Group/OSIS (Open Source Identity System) User-Centric Identity Interoperability suite. The event will demonstrate the viability of a user-centric model for use within the enterprise infrastructure. Join us in this important milestone! Contact me if you'd like a complimentary guest pass to the Interop suite on Wednesday night.

An Identity Catalyst: User-centrism & Identity 2.0

14 June, 2007 - 1:48pm

Interested in learning what's really happening with user-centric technologies? Think you know the state of identity a decade from now? Sxip's founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, will be exploring these issues at the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst conference in his talks The State of User-Centric Identity and 2017: Where's Identity?. Join us in two weeks in San Francisco and find out what the future world will look like when viewed through the lens of identity management.

CardSpace & Sxip Access SSO to Google Apps & Salesforce

13 June, 2007 - 12:19pm

See how you can use CardSpace to securely authenticate to your Salesforce and Google Apps account at the Burton Group Catalyst conference later this month! We've added CardSpace support to Sxip Access, our on-demand identity management solution. We're demoing the new release in the Microsoft suite on June 28. Come learn how you can have secure single sign-on to the most popular software- as-a-service applications using CardSpace and Sxip Access. Please contact us if you'd like a complimentary guest pass to the Microsoft suite on Thursday night.

eWeek on the IdM advantages of Sxip Access for Google Apps

12 June, 2007 - 1:57pm

eWeek Labs published a great product review by Cameron Sturdevant today of using Sxip Access for SAML-based single sign-on to Google Apps. Cameron states, "There are a number of advantages to using an identity management system such as Sxip Identity with an on-demand service such as Google Apps. For one, with user authorizations piped through our in-house directory, we felt more certain about who was and wasn't using Google Apps than we did when we used the Google Apps administrative console as our sole authentication gatekeeper." Read more on ease of Active Directory integration, enabling access control to Google Apps without having to maintain a separate authentication store.

The Cost of Online Fear: $2 billion and counting

6 June, 2007 - 2:14pm

Today's report by analysts eMarketer finds that the undermining of consumer confidence in online security has resulted in a substantial decrease in e-commerce activity. American internet users are adjusting their online behavior to avoid identity theft by visiting fewer sites, ceasing to bank online and purchasing less online. The study claims that approximately 3/4 of Americans are concerned about identity theft and 1/4 are now limiting their e-commerce use. Ben Macklin author of the study states, "not even counting the actual losses to fraud and theft suffered by internet users and businesses, which are not insubstantial, the loss of potential online revenue is enormous."

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Manage Your Identity With Sxipper: New Videocast

30 May, 2007 - 2:30pm

Our recent demo of Sxipper at the Internet Identity Workshop, was described by ZDNet's Phil Windley in his blog as "I've come to use Sxipper since the last IIW and have come to rely on it," and on ZDNet as "tools like Sxipper do a good job at solving that [SSO] problem". A great video was captured at IIW of Sxipper that demonstrates why having control of your online identity is important and how Sxipper enables this.

Vote for Sxipper! Identity 2.0 App Nominated for CNET's Webware 100

23 May, 2007 - 2:48pm

Sxipper, our free internet identity manager currently in beta, has been named a finalist in the Webware 100 Awards for 2007 by the CNET Editors and Web 2.0 user community. For the Webware 100 Awards, 250 Finalists were selected by the editors from over 2,000 qualifying Web 2.0 services. The Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Voting is open to the public through June 11, where the top 25 finalists in each category will be listed. Please vote for *man's and woman's best internet friend*, Sxipper, in the Browser category.

CBC TV on the Quest for Identity 2.0

16 May, 2007 - 1:39pm

CBC Television recently covered the problems associated with web identity in a story last week at the WWW 2007 Conference in Banff. They discuss with Sxip's founder & CEO Dick Hardt, the problem of who controls your online identity and state that the quest now is for Identity 2.0. They describe Identity 2.0 as a secure login which works anywhere on the net, with no need to remember scores of passwords. Download the video and see what else they say about CardSpace, OpenID, user control, privacy and online commerce.

Sun joins OpenID user-centric community

7 May, 2007 - 2:21pm

We're delighted to see Sun announce they intend to support OpenID. After being a proponent of old school federated identity technologies for so long, it's good for the user-centric community that another large player in the identity space has declared support for this emerging Identity 2.0 protocol. Earlier this spring Sxip announced we would collaborate with Microsoft and others in the community on interoperability between OpenID and Windows CardSpace to make the internet safer and easier to use. We hope all of our combined efforts further industry convergence to one simple identity protocol.

IDC on how Employers Direct & Salesforce.com use Sxip for Identity Access

27 April, 2007 - 11:59am

IDC has just published a report examining how salesforce.com and its customer, Employers Direct, utilized Sxip Access identity management technology to provision/ deprovision new employees and to provide secure single sign-on (SSO) for the insurance company. Sally Hudson, research director for Identity and Access Management at IDC states, "For small and medium-sized companies, or for divisions of larger companies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and IAM-focused appliances are proving effective from both a security and a cost-effective perspective. Companies such as Sxip and salesforce.com are demonstrating that IAM technologies can be adopted and utilized for standards-based Web interactions and services."

Sxip Chosen One of Canada's Top 25 Up & Coming IT Companies

26 April, 2007 - 8:53am

Sxip has been selected amongst this year's Top 25 Up and Comers by the Branham Group, who they believe could be the next who's who in Canadian technology. Their selection criteria was determined by the following: established after December 31, 2002, and show great promise within the IT industry based on creativity and innovation whether it be in a new technology area or optimizing existing technology in an innovative manner. See the full list in the current issue of Backbone Magazine.

Vote for Sxipper! Identity 2.0 solution nominated for Next Web Awards

18 April, 2007 - 2:20pm

Sxipper, our free digital identity manager, has been nominated for most promising service in the Beta & Stealth category of the Next Web Awards. Sxipper is a Firefox extension that manages passwords, fills forms, provides OpenIDs, and gets more accurate the more it's used. The public awards are for upcoming disruptive services, that will change the internet. Make your voice heard and vote for your favorite user-centric identity *retriever*, Sxipper...

A Post Password World

17 April, 2007 - 11:42am

Are we transitioning to a post password world? You bet! Sxipper is enabling this by managing your online identity, passwords, and usernames. Plus a whole lot more. Thomas from The Command Line describes our free Firefox plugin last week in his podcast with Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt as "a great extension. I use it daily and enjoy it very much." They discuss this as well as a number of other Identity 2.0 topics such as OpenID, better privacy through the granularity of claims, current and future identity services, and how e-government could help drive adoption.

Sxip Releases New Java OpenID Libraries

16 April, 2007 - 3:22pm

We have a new version of the OpenID4Java library: v0.9.2 that is a full featured and configurable OpenID implementation licensed under the Apache 2.0 open source license. Our library supports every feature in OpenID plus the attribute exchange and simple registration extensions for transfering identity data. It's now simpler for developers to transfer data on their site and much easier to OpenID-enable a website or become an OpenID provider, which will be great for interoperability with other relying parties and OpenID providers.

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Identity 2.0 & the NSA

13 April, 2007 - 2:00pm

Sxip's founder & CEO, Dick Hardt, is giving the opening keynote on Identity 2.0 at next week's Identity Protection and Management Conference. Organized by the US National Security Agency, the conference is focusing on “Piecing Together Policy With Technology To Safeguard Our Most Vital Assets – People, Information, And Equipment”. In addition to user-centric identity, other topics under discussion will include: identity and access management, PKI, biometrics, and ID cards for the Department of Defense. We look foward to exploring issues of security, privacy, and identity for government and its' citizens.

Sxip Provides Essential SSO Solution To Salesforce for Cox Media

11 April, 2007 - 11:05am

Cox Media has deployed Sxip Access for single sign-on and centralized user management of their employees to Salesforce. Rolando Castellanos, National IT Manager for Cox Media, stated "Our users access all applications at Cox with the same login credentials. We therefore view Sxip Access as an essential solution in extending our single sign-on capabilities to Salesforce. Plus with nearly 1000 users in 20 markets, it's imperative for our Operations Group to have one place to manage IDs and passwords." Read more in our new case study.

A Post Shared Secrets World

5 April, 2007 - 2:29pm

Wouldn't it be great to have a programmatic way to present data online? To have digital credentials to prove something about yourself, akin to a digital drivers licence? To not fear identity theft due to the compromise of your personal information such as your mother's maiden name, your social security number, or other "shared secrets"? Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt discusses these and other Identity 2.0 issues in the first of a two part podcast on the Command Line. In this 20 minute segment, Dick explains how he moved from programming tools to identity services, he defines some terms, and he starts discussing how these new tools interact with and enhance privacy online.

Vancouver Ranked Best City in North America

2 April, 2007 - 4:53pm

Vancouver was voted the best city in North America and third best in the world for overall quality of life by UK-based, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, in their annual global survey. Mercer's study is based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 39 key quality of living determinants, including: political, social, economic and socio-cultural environments; schools and education; recreation; and natural environment. Find out for yourself why it's so awesome to live here! Sxip is hiring. Check out our careers page for more details...