{"id":1158,"date":"2010-10-03T23:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T07:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-10-03T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T07:44:14","slug":"u-prove-honored-by-iapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"U-Prove honored by International Association of Privacy Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was great news this week\u00a0about the growing support for U-Prove Minimal Disclosure technology<\/a>:\u00a0 it received the top award in the technology innovation category\u00a0from the\u00a0International Association of Privacy Professionals\u00a0<\/a>– the world's largest association of privacy professionals.<\/p>\n

BALTIMORE \u2014 September 30, 2010 \u2014 Winners of the eighth annual HP-International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy Innovation Awards were recognized today at the IAPP Privacy Dinner, held in conjunction with the IAPP Privacy Academy 2010.\u00a0 The honorees include Symcor, Inc., Minnesota Privacy Consultants, and Microsoft Corporation.<\/p>\n

The annual awards recognize exceptional integration of privacy and are judged from a broad field of entries. This year\u2019s winners were selected by a panel of private and public sector privacy experts including Allen Brandt, CIPP, Corporate Counsel, Chief Privacy Official, Graduate Management Admission Council; Joanne McNabb, CIPP, CIPP\/G, Chief, California Office of Privacy Protection; Susan Smith, CIPP, Americas Privacy Officer, Hewlett-Packard Company; and Florian Thoma, Chief Data Protection Officer, Siemens AG.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of more than 7,000 privacy professionals across 50 countries, we applaud this year\u2019s HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Award winners,\u201d said IAPP Executive Director Trevor Hughes.\u00a0 \u201cAt a time when privacy is driving significant conversation and headlines, this year\u2019s results show how protecting privacy and assuring organizational success go hand-in-hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHP is pleased to sponsor an award that advances privacy worldwide,\u201d said Hewlett Packard Company Americas Privacy Officer Susan Smith.<\/p>\n

In the Large Organization category (more than 5,000 employees), Symcor, Inc. won for its \u201cA-integrity Process,\u201d which is designed to manage and protect sensitive financial information that is ultimately presented to customers in the form of client statements. As the largest transactional printer in Canada, Symcor provides statement-to-payment services for some of Canada\u2019s major financial, telecommunications, insurance, utility and payroll institutions. A-integrity established a new standard in data protection with an industry-leading error rate of less than one per million statements produced. Symcor has been improving on this rate each year.\u00a0 A robust privacy incident management process was also developed to standardize error identification and resolution. Symcor\u2019s dedicated Privacy Office provides overall governance to the process and has instilled a deep culture of privacy awareness throughout the organization.<\/p>\n

The winner in the Small Organization category (fewer than 5,000 employees), is Minnesota Privacy Consultants (MPC). MPC helps multinational corporations and government agencies operationalize their governance of personal data. The organization won for its Privacy Maturity Model (PMM), a benchmarking tool that evaluates privacy program maturity and effectiveness. Using the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) framework as the basis but recognizing that the GAPP does not provide for degrees of compliance and maturity of a privacy program, MPC cross-referenced the 73 subcomponents of the GAPP framework against the six \u201cmaturity levels\u201d of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) developed by Carnegie Mellon University. From this, the Privacy Maturity Model (PMM) was developed to define specific criteria and weighting to various control areas based on prevailing statistics in the areas of data breaches and security enforcement actions worldwide. The Innovation Award judges recognized MPC for its successful and sophisticated approach to a very difficult problem.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Corporation received the honor in the Technology category for \u201cU-Prove\u201d, a privacy-enhancing identity management technology that helps enable people to protect their identity-related information. The technology is based on advanced cryptographic protocols designed for electronic transactions and communications. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 and released into Proof of Concept as well as donated to the Open Source community in 2010. U-Prove technology has similar characteristics of conventionally used technologies, such as PKI certificates and SAML tokens, with additional privacy and security benefits. Through a technique of minimal disclosure, U-Prove tokens enable individuals to disclose just the information needed by applications and services, but nothing more, during online transactions. Online service providers, such as businesses and governments that are involved in transactions with individuals cannot link or collect a profile of activities. U-Prove effectively meets the security and privacy requirements of many identity systems\u2014most notably national e-ID schemes now being contemplated by world governments. U-Prove has already won the Kuppinger Cole prize for best innovation <\/a>in European identity projects and is now this year\u2019s recipient of the HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Award in technology.<\/p>\n

About the IAPP<\/strong>
\nThe International Association of Privacy Professionals is the world's largest association of privacy professionals with more than 7,400 members across 50 countries. The IAPP helps to define, support and improve the privacy profession globally through networking, education and certification.\u00a0 More information about the IAPP is available at www.privacyassociation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IAPP says, “U-Prove effectively meets the security and privacy requirements of many identity systems \u2014 most notably national e-ID schemes now being contemplated by world governments.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,40,11,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}