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Communicator Inc Joins Liberty Alliance, Plans to Implement Liberty Alliance Version 1.0 Specification Into Communicator Hub ID | ||
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Firm Brings Single Sign-On Experience to Network Identity Standards Setting Body WHITE PLAINS, NY-July 15, 2002 - Communicator Inc, a leading provider of secure electronic communications products and services to Fortune 1000 companies, announced today that it has joined the Liberty Alliance as a sponsor. Communicator Inc also announced that it plans to implement the Liberty Alliance version 1.0 specifications for open, federated network identification into its Communicator Hub ID service within three months. "Communicator Inc is a strong believer in standards and interoperability. In providing secure communications tools to our clients we believe that standards and interoperability are paramount," said Communicator Inc CEO Leo Schlinkert. "We joined the Liberty Alliance effort because we believe it will facilitate communication between enterprises and help us serve our clients better." "Communicator Inc's Hub ID service has been solving the network identity problems of federated directory access and single sign-on for several years," said Serge Shinkar, Communicator Hub ID product manager. "Many of the world's largest Wall Street firms have been using Communicator Hub ID since 1999 to connect their extranets with single sign-on while maintaining separate user identities. These successful financial business communities, with thousands of customers, prove the underlying principles of the Liberty Alliance and that they can be successfully implemented." The Liberty Alliance Project today announced the public availability of its version 1.0 specifications, the first set of open, federated network identity specifications from the cross-industry consortium that was formed less than a year ago. The Liberty version 1.0 specifications focus on interoperability between systems to enable opt-in account linking and simplified sign-on functionality. The Liberty Alliance also released details today on its next set of identity specifications already in the early stages of development. Please visit www.projectliberty.org for more details on this announcement. "Less than a year after the Liberty Alliance was formed, we've made great progress in delivering a secure, technologically agnostic identification infrastructure that can support a wide range of identity products and network access devices," said Eric Dean, chairman of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and CIO of United Airlines. "Communicator Inc's support and implementation of the Liberty specifications is a testament to the ease-of-implementation, commercial value and significant need for an interoperable network identification solution." Communicator Hub ID is a unified digital identity management service that enables companies to securely extend the digital corporate identities of employees, customers, partners and suppliers beyond the enterprise. This enables identity related services such as single sign-on, self-help systems, access to permissioned content and presence management. Communicator Hub ID integrates with a wide variety of environments and allows companies to leverage their existing technology investments and architecture. Communicator Inc plans to implement the Liberty Alliance version 1.0 specifications into Communicator Hub ID within three months. Liberty Alliance-enabled gated communities will allow Communicator Inc's customers to further improve efficiency, reduce costs and protect client relationships, content and brands.
About the Liberty Alliance Project
The Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) is an alliance formed to develop and deploy open, federated network identification specifications that support all current and emerging network devices in the digital economy. Federated identity will help drive the next generation of the Internet, offering businesses and consumers convenience and choice. Membership is open to all commercial and non-commercial organizations. Founding members of the Alliance are: American Express, AOL Time Warner, Bell Canada, Citigroup, France Telecom, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard Company, MasterCard International, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, RSA Security, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines and Vodafone. About Communicator Inc Communicator Inc connects people within and across organizations with its Communicator Hub suite of secure electronic communications products and services. The Communicator Hub identity management, content aggregation and messaging products help build strong relationships between companies and their core customers by improving efficiency, reducing costs and protecting client relationships, content and brands. Communicator Inc is a privately held company headquartered in White Plains, New York. For more information about Communicator Inc visit www.communicatorinc.com. # # #
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