Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Episode 57: Identity Standards series: OASIS

Monday, June 14, 2010

In the second part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with John Sabo and Anil Saldhana, members of the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering committee. Sabo, director of Global Government Relations for CA Technologies, and Saldhana, lead security architect for middleware at Red Hat, talk about where OASIS fits in the identity management landscape.



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