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MSDN Architecture Webcast: "InfoCard": Introduction (Level 200)

whitepaper InfoCard" is the code name for a new technology from Microsoft that helps address the problem of managing and disclosing identity information. InfoCard" implements the core of the Identity Metasystem using open standard protocols to securely...

Tags: network security

[01 May 2008]

Tech-Ed Offers Previews of Powerful Tools

whitepaper Monad has become Windows PowerShell, InfoCard has changed to CardSpace, and Content Management System has merged with Sharepoint 2007. At Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2006 conference in Boston in June 2006 the pre-conference keynote discussed little of...

Tags: programming languages, developers, conference, name

[02 Jul 2007]

Making Your Site Work With IE7 Security

whitepaper Site developers will be interested to learn about the opportunities provided by High Assurance Security Certificates and InfoCard as well as the potential impact of new features like the Phishing Filter and changes to SSL handling.

Tags: web browsers, learn, developers, enhancements

[31 Mar 2007]

Open source ID projects cosy up to Microsoft

News Higgins was presented as an open source response to Microsoft's Windows CardSpace, formerly known as InfoCard. The Higgins and Bandit open source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of open source identity services with a link to a...

Tags: microsoft, open source, id

[29 Jan 2007]

MSDN Webcast: Building Modern Software: Services, Workflow, and Identity (Level 200)

whitepaper This webcast is an introduction to Microsoft technologies in these areas: Windows Communication Foundation, the forthcoming framework for creating service-oriented applications; Windows Workflow Foundation, a framework for creating workflow-based...

Tags: workflow, oriented, foundation, creating

[14 Dec 2006]

MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Identity in Financial Services (Level 200)

whitepaper This webcast specifically discusses Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and the Microsoft WinFX Application Programming Interface (API) component code named "InfoCard". Financial service companies face market pressures to...

Tags: oriented, foundation, service oriented, business goals

[14 Dec 2006]

WinFX Adds New Security Method

whitepaper It consists of four elements: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a new graphical foundation for 3D graphics; Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), a service-oriented messaging system; Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), which allows task...

Tags: xp, windows vista, windows xp, vista

[08 Dec 2006]

MSDN Architecture Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and "InfoCard" in the Public Sector (Level 200)

whitepaper This webcast focuses on components of the WinFX programming model, such as Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo"), Windows Workflow Foundation (formerly code-named "WinOE"), and the upcoming "InfoCard" identity metasystem...

Tags: sector, code, named, workflow

[07 Dec 2006]

A First Look at InfoCard

whitepaper It's called InfoCard, and it's planned to be available with Windows Vista. In this paper, the author talks about InfoCard purely in the domain of Web services, because that's the only place one can use the prerelease bits.

Tags: security management, windows vista, infocard, vista

[14 Nov 2006]

Step-by-Step Guide to InfoCard

whitepaper InfoCard is not the "Son of Passport" that some in the media seem to fear. Passport is a single identity system and, as such, naturally fits into the metasystem as one of many technologies available to InfoCard users.

Tags: security management, identity, passport, accessing

[14 Nov 2006]

Vista to cure ID management headache?

News By using technology known as Windows CardSpace, formerly code-named InfoCard, individuals in an organisation could grant access to outsiders without having to involve the IT department, Kim Cameron, identity and access architect at Microsoft, said...

Tags: id management, windows vista, vista, microsoft

[14 Sep 2006]

Symantec eyes transaction security

News It is also working on a tool called InfoCard to secure transactions, and it offers Windows Defender at no cost to fight spyware and related pests. Symantec is readying a new security product designed to protect consumers as they do business online.

Tags: anti-phishing, phishing, phishing scam, symantec

[01 Jun 2006]

Design Rationale Behind the Identity Metasystem Architecture

whitepaper Microsoft's "InfoCard" project and the Identity Meta-system vision underlying it are aimed at filling this gap using technology all can adopt and solutions all can endorse, putting users in control of their identity interactions on the Internet.

Tags: identity, enhancing, facing, decisions

[21 Apr 2006]

Open source ID management plan on the cards

News IBM and Novell are expected to announce an open source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. Microsoft has described InfoCard as a technology that gives users a single place to manage authentication and...

Tags: infocard, id management, identity management, open source

[27 Feb 2006]

CIO Jury: Will biometrics replace passwords and PINs?

News Paul Broome, IT director at 192.com said biometrics are preferable to Bill Gates' vision that Microsoft will aggregate a users' passwords and account information with a new product called InfoCard. Iris and fingerprint-scanning technology will...

Tags: biometrics, cio jury

[16 Feb 2006]

Longhorn Server will 'fix itself on the fly'

News STS also will support InfoCard, a code name for a new Microsoft technology designed to provide secure storage for identity information that will be shared with online services such as web stores. Microsoft's WinFX programming model lets developers...

Tags: longhorn server, microsoft

[16 Sep 2005]

Microsoft gets smart about online security

Microsoft gets smart about online security

News Recently Microsoft shipped a beta of software code-named InfoCard, which aims to help users deal with the plethora of internet logons and passwords and pay securely at websites. The security of online transactions could be bolstered by adding a...

Tags: smartcards, security, smartcard, microsoft

[14 Jun 2005]

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