In order to properly secure confidential information -- everything from trade secrets to financial data and personal identity information -- corporations need policy-based e-mail encryption.

...one of the biggest problems facing any implementation of an identity federation is that all of the participants need to be using the same standards and protocols to achieve federation. Unfortunately, as time has progressed a number of different standards have emerged. This is not a big issue if you’re starting out from scratch and all of the applications that are being developed are being built in-house. As long as all of the participants within the federation can agree on a standard, integration issues are unlikely to arise.

A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Technical Committee has been proposed.

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The bill, called the "PRO(TECH)T Act," would increase privacy protections and set national standards to exchange health information nationally.