NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the judging panel for the 2008 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards. This year judges will be evaluating nominations in three categories: a Liberty-based deployment, a Liberty-based emerging application and a new multi-protocol application category. The call for nominations for the 2008 IDDY Awards ends on Monday, June 16, with winners announced on June 30.

IBM is pushing interoperability as a solution to enterprise identity management and authentication woes. In Version 6.2 of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, the company has integrated a number of user-focused identity management technologies and frameworks, including OpenID, Microsoft Windows CardSpace and the Eclipse Higgins identity framework.

When we set out late last year to review comprehensive SOA appliances that provide XML security, acceleration, transformation, and parsing, we worried that we wouldn't find all this goodness in one box. We also didn't foresee the speed at which this space would coalesce.Since Cisco Systems acquired Reactivity last year, the XML appliance market, for the most part, has been quiet. But next door, Layer 7 Technologies and Vordel continue to be aggressive players in the XML security gateway area.