Conference Round-up

Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA) Summit 2008 - Seattle, USA - June 4 - 5, 2008

The underlying theme of this year's AOTA Summit was about how businesses can  develop and maintain a strong, positive reputation online.  As one might expect, building a successful online reputation boils down to choosing and executing well those actions you control, and protecting yourself against outside actors looking to harm or take advantage of your reputation. 

Our CTO Rod Rasmussen again took the stage, participating in two panel discussions.  The first panel focused on the role of registrars, web hosts, and ISPs in the setup, ongoing operation, and response to online threats.  The second panel focused on the preventive and proactive response planning that organizations should be doing.

Since the Conference took place only 25 miles from our Tacoma headquarters, Internet Identity was able to host for a few hours at our offices both Dave Jevans, president of the APWG, and Gary Warner, one of the world's foremost authorities on phishing and currently the Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.  Our two guests graciously participated in an impromptu and informative discussion about phishing with the Internet Identity deactivation team and staff.  We would like to thank both Dave and Gary for sharing their time and expertise with us.