OATH Education Institute Debuts at CTST 2008

Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH) Delivers Essential
Training for Vendors and Customers Looking to Leverage the OATH
Reference Architecture and Open Specifications
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. & ORLANDO, Fla.--(Business Wire)--
OATH, the Initiative for Open AuTHentication, today announced that
the organization would hold the first ever OATH Education Institute in
conjunction with the upcoming CTST 2008 Conference in Orlando, May 12,
2008. The OATH Education Institute will be held at the Orange County
Convention Center from 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. EDT.

"We had considerable interest from vendors and end user
organizations alike on how to use the OATH Reference Architecture to
develop authentication and access control solutions that leverage
industry standards," said Siddharth Bajaj, Chairman of the OATH Joint
Coordinating Committee. "We felt the best way to provide the time and
detail needed for these individuals was to hold a day long training
session. Since many of the people we spoke to at the recent RSA
Conference were coming to CTST, we decided this conference provided an
ideal venue for our first Education Institute."

The OATH Education Institute will feature sessions run by members
of the OATH Technical Committee who helped develop the Reference
Architecture and various draft standards on authentication submitted
to the IETF. The instructors include: Donald Malloy, director of
business development for Innovative Card Technologies; Bajaj,
Principal at Verisign; Shuh Chang, Senior Engineer, Verisign; and
Mingliang Pei, Principal Architect, Verisign.

Subjects covered in the Education Institute include:

-- Security Primer

-- OATH Overview

-- OATH Reference Architecture v 2.0

-- Authentication Methods and Tokens

-- Standards-based Provisioning of Authentication Tokens

-- Supporting Strong Authentication Standards in Your
Applications

-- Risk-based Authentication Architecture

-- Implementation Considerations and Best Practices

-- OATH Authentication and Identity Sharing Models

-- OATH in Action (a Demonstration)

-- OATH Roadmap.

For more information on the OATH Education Institute, go to
www.openauthentication.org/news/ or
www.sourcemediaconferences.com/CTST08/conference_highlights.html. The
OATH Reference Architecture version 2.0 and all draft specifications
and standards are available on the OATH website at:
http://www.openauthentication.org/specifications.

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 foster use of strong authentication across networks,
devices and applications. OATH participants work collectively to
facilitate standards and build a reference architecture for open
authentication while evangelizing the benefits of strong interoperable
authentication in a networked world. As OATH grows, the organization
actively incorporates 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 assisting customers with the reduction of
cost and complexity of deploying strong authentication within
enterprises and across the Internet. Since its formation in 2004,
OATH's membership includes security industry leaders from token
manufacturers, platform vendors, smartcard providers, and security
services companies. End user companies join OATH to add their voice
and ideas towards the goal of open authentication.

To join OATH and to see a list of its current membership, go to:
http://www.openauthentication.org/membership.asp. To learn more about
OATH, e-mail info@openauthentication.org or visit
http://www.openauthentication.org.

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