John Fontana's blog traverses the evolving digital identity landscape and its intersection with the cloud, compliance, audit, privacy, mobile computing, API integration and security.
John Fontana is a journalist focusing in identity, privacy and security issues. Currently, he is the Identity Evangelist for cloud identity security vendor Ping Identity, where he blogs about relevant issues related to digital identity.
It will be at least a few weeks before the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) finds out if the FCC wants to provide an unedited copy of its report in the Google's Street View investigation.
Nearly 800,000 deceased Americans each year have their identity stolen by thieves looking for financial or other gain, according to a new study.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center wants to see the full, unedited report the Federal Communications Commission published on its investigation of Google and possible violations of wiretap laws.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is getting its house in order a year after its inception. The issue now is if it can gain speed and rally a critical mass of public and private organizations to join the effort.
Finalists are picked for the $10 million pilot program being run by the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).
A trio of researchers is experimenting with vibrations, sounds and flashing lights as the basis for futuristic, secure passwords.
The World Wide Web Consortium opens a three-day meeting to define the parameters of its Web Tracking Protection specification. It is being closely watched by the digital advertising industry and privacy and consumer groups.
The Identity in the Cloud technical committee at OASIS is calling on the public to help it vet identity standards for a myriad of cloud use cases from mobile to digital signatures.
Google has tweaked its search engine to ensure that when users change their passwords they are signed out everywhere.
To recover from a data breach, companies are turning to a number of procedures and technologies including re-education, identity and access management, and expanded use of encryption, a Ponemon Institute study reveals.