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We believe that online consumer identity will be driven by "open" identity initiatives such as OpenID and Information Cards, and that widespread consumer adoption of these technologies will depend, in part, on the ability of consumers to reuse these credentials at many different types of online service providers.   We also believe that "stronger" forms of identity authentication (i.e., better than just a username and password) are needed to prevent many types of fraudulent, identity-related transactions that involve individual consumers. Many strong authentication products and procedures are successfully being used to authenticate people in the enterprise who seek to access the online resources of their employers.  However, many of these are not perceived as being applicable for use by consumers because large-scale deployments would be too costly, and because it is often feared that stronger security measures would require behavioral changes that many consumers may find burdensome or inconvenient.

Our goal is to help overcome these obstacles so that privacy-preserving, high assurance identity solutions for consumers can be realized. We can work with interested parties such as vendors, identity providers, service providers / relying parties, and industry consortia to help understand how open identity architectures, enabled by a trust framework and coupled with strong authentication technologies, can provide privacy-preserving, consumer-centric, high assurance identity services for a range of consumer applications.  

We are also available for writing assignments, such as creation of white papers, requirements documents, and other types of written material, and can also help businesses plan for the implementation of written identity theft prevention programs, as required by the US government's Red Flag Rules.