Secure interactions between government, business and citizen top agenda at London OASIS forum

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Secure interactions between government, business and citizen top agenda at
London OASIS forum 

London, England; 1 November 2006 -- "With increasing threats encompassing
everything from hacking to identity theft, providing a secure, online
environment has become a major objective for governments and organisations
worldwide." 

So insists John Wailing, director of technical policy for the UK Government and
chair of the OASIS Adoption Forum, which takes place in London from 27-29
November.

Focusing on these very real, modern-day threats, 'Managing Secure Interactions
in Sector Applications' will be the theme of the third annual event. The OASIS
Adoption Forum brings together users, government agencies, researchers and
developers from the international community to discover how open standards for
security are being implemented and what the future holds in this area.

This year's sessions will cover sensitive key areas such as identity
management, access control, authentication in e-Government, and SOA and
security. Attendees will examine approaches to these topics, while discussing
new ideas to help individuals and their organisations make informed choices.


Keynote speakers

Keynote presenters include Karel De Vriendt, Head of Unit for the European
Commission, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, and Mark D. Ferrar,
Director of Infrastructure at the Technology Office for UK's National Health
Service (NHS) Connecting for Health. 

A closing panel, moderated by Nigel Stanley, Practice Leader for IT Security at
Bloor Research, will address the relationship between open source tools and
open standards for security.


Workshop on PKI

A special workshop related to the state and future of the Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) will also be included in the programme - on 27-28
November. This will explore the use of PKI in business applications around the
world. Case studies will be followed by an interactive panel discussion,
featuring major PKI implementers in Europe.

The workshop will be an open dialogue in which attendees will be encouraged to
advance their own experiences with PKI. The goal is to collectively access how
PKI is being used today, its potential to interact with newer technologies, and
alternatives for ways in which the standard should evolve.

Also featured at the forum will be OASIS standards, including the eXtensible
Access Control Markup Language (XACML), Security Assertion Markup Language
(SAML), and WS-Security will be featured, as well as specifications under
development, such as Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM). 

Attendance at the forum and PKI workshop is open to all, although space is
limited to ensure productive discussions. The event is supported by ITU, eema,
Liberty Alliance, CEN/ISSS, and ICTSB, and members of those organisations are
eligible to register at the OASIS member discount.

For more information on the November 27-29 event visit:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/

Additional funding for the OASIS Adoption Forum is provided by BEA Systems,
EDS, IBM, Intel, PTC, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. Xenos will host a reception
for all attendees.


Information for editors:

The texts of issue-related interviews will be made available featuring Karel De
Vriendt, Head of Unit for the European Commission, Enterprise and Industry
Directorate-General, Mark D. Ferrar, Director of Infrastructure at the
Technology Office for UK's National Health Service (NHS) Connecting for Health,
and Peter Alterman, Asst. CIO, EAuthentication for the US National Institutes
of Health.


About OASIS:

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is
a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. 

Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open
process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate
efforts. The consortium produces open standards for Web services, security,
e-business, and standardisation efforts in the public sector and for
application-specific markets. 
Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600
organisations and individual members in 100 countries. 

Approved OASIS Standards include AVDL, BCM, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML, ebXML
CPPA, ebXML Messaging, ebXML Registry, EDXL-DE, EML, OpenDocument, SAML,
SOA-RM, SPML, UBL, UDDI, WSDM, WS-Notification, WS-Reliability, WSRF, WSRP,
WS-Security, XACML, XCBF, and XML Catalogs. 
For more information, visit http://www.oasis-open.org


Press contacts:

Tony Mallett
Journalist contact for Europe
tony.mallett@gmail.com
+32 472 280 878

Carol Geyer
Director of Communications, OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x209