27 July, 2006 - 3:27am

As commercial and social interactions continue to migrate to the web, establishing "who" we are is essential, and current identity management technologies are failing to operate at internet scale. Join us next week at the USENIX Security Symposium's Securing Web Identities BoF, where we'll discuss emerging IdM solutions and user-centric protocols such as CardSpace, OpenID and SXIP that provide for identity data exchange, protect user privacy, and offer a functional gradient of security levels.

The 15th Annual USENIX Security Symposium is being held in our beautiful hometown of Vancouver this year. The conference offers cutting-edge research on topics that range from securing real systems through diagnosing the Net. In addition to Sxip's BoF, there are numerous technical talks on identity related issues such as: PKI, password management, and authentication. Find out how changes in computer security are going to affect you. Hope to see you there!