Kassel, September, 26th 2017. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is implementing privacyIDEA for securing access to their infrastructure with a second factor. The privacyIDEA Authentication System was chosen due to its flexible nature and the possibility to allow a single sign on experience for the users.
The services and especially the users are distributed world wide. Shipping authentication devices centrally is not efficient. Allowing only one type of authentication object is not an option. For W3C this is a big advantage that privacyIDEA can manage many different token type of different vendors at the same time. The lean REST API allows easy integration into their own user portal. W3C connected privacyIDEA to their existing user management. Users will be able to choose if they want to self-enroll Smartphone-Applications or U2F devices. Depending on the device type users gain access to resources of different security levels.
“Working with NetKnights is very effective. They provide just the right amount of consultancy for us to be able to implement the open source software privacyIDEA into our network and in our workflows.” said Ted Guild, Head of W3C Systems. Cornelius Kölbel, CEO at NetKnights, added: “W3C stands for Web standards. So we are very happy that W3C chose privacyIDEA, as this is an open solution, which complies to an open development workflow and open standards.”
About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The mission of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to lead the Web to its full potential by creating technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the Web remains open, accessible, and interoperable for everyone around the globe. W3C standards HTML5 and CSS are the foundational technologies upon which all Web sites are built. For its work to make online videos more accessible with captions and subtitles, W3C received a 2016 Emmy Award.
W3C’s vision for “One Web” brings together thousands of dedicated technologists representing more than 400 member organizations and dozens of industry sectors. Organizationally, W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the United States, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan and Beihang University in China.
For more information see www.w3.org.
About NetKnights and privacyIDEA
NetKnights GmbH is located in Kassel, Germany. It is an independent IT Security firm, providing services and products in the fields of strong authentication, identity management and encryption. NetKnights employs the core developers of the modular authentication system privacyIDEA.
privacyIDEA is open source software and thus has not vendor defined end of life. Customers can own their privacyIDEA installation and use it without restrictions. NetKnights provides different subscription and support levels of privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition to meet the requirements of companies.
From October 10th-12th NetKnights presents privacyIDEA at the IT security fair it-sa in Nuremberg, Germany, at stand 10.1-208.
