Online Identity and Trust

Posted by Vijai Shankar, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at VeriSign, Inc.

I posted earlier today about the difficulty in remembering passwords, security questions, our daily tasks etc. and mentioning consumers to ask organizations to introduce secure, yet painless authentication methods. Here's another incentive for organizations to make life easy yet secure for consumers at a lower cost. VeriSign is now offering up to 5,000 FREE CREDENTIALS to each organization joining the VeriSign Identity Protection Network by Sept 30, 2008. This is a great incentive for organizations looking to deploy strong or two-factor authentication and be a part of a Network enables consumers to use a single credential across multiple site. The timing is opportune. With quite a few folks from the security industry at the RSA Conference next week in San Francisco, if you want to know more information stop by the VeriSign Booth # 1316 at the conference and we can help.

~Vijai

Posted by Vijai Shankar at 02:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hi! My name is Kerry Loftus and I have product marketing and management ownership for our consumer authentication product offerings. By day, I'm a dedicated VeriSign employee focusing for the last 8 years on security technologies that are valuable to our customers in helping them better secure their online interactions with customers, business partners and employees. Few would also suspect, outside of my career, I'm a dedicated wife and mother to 4 kids (two boys and two girls, ages 1 - 13 years). Yikes! By keeping my toes in both professional and day-to-day worlds, I hope to bring real-world perspective to a space that is highly technical, potentially complicated, but incredibly essential in our still emerging digital world.

We found an awesome video on YouTube: the "MiniGeek" gets his PayPal security key in the mail, and shows us as he sets it up in less than two minutes. It's child's play! (this video has been removed.)

Posted by Kerry Loftus at 10:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Welcome to the Online Identity and Trust blog here at VeriSign. Here we hope to share some interesting news about the VeriSign Identity Protection team as well as in the world of identity protection. Since we are all about identity protection, I might as well give a blurb of who I truly am so that my identity and role is clear within this team. I am the new product marketing manager for VIP and I focus on outbound marketing for our solutions.

Reading the developments in the area of identity protection, we see a lot of interesting news these days. Some of us may think that it is only to protect our online financial transactions but with the growth in Internet and the flat world, we must increasingly adapt to newer threats posed to identity theft and fraud. For example, there has been some recent news about how fraudsters are targeting Facebook. Heck ya, I too am on Facebook and on reading this Wired article: Fraudsters Target Facebook With Phishing Scam, I figure that I will be a lot more careful with my Facebook transactions or any online transactions for that matter.

In this blog, the VIP team will share our thoughts on the future of identity protection.

- Vijai Shankar

Posted by VeriSign Identity Protection Blogger at 08:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)