Foundation Laid for Every Web Site to Issue and Accept Highly Secure Information Cards In About Two Days BOSTON, Oct. 9
BOSTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ --
Core News Facts:
-- Parity Inc., launches world's first service -- "CardPress(TM)" -- for
issuing Information Cards
-- CardPress is FREE, and can be fully operational in about two days
-- Any website can now issue Information Cards to enable:
-- Customer-centric identity management
-- One-click login to their site
-- Phishing protection for all customers
-- Single sign-on (SSO) or "click-in" across multiple sites
-- Eliminate current costs for login & password management (forgotten
passwords)
-- Businesses can accept Information Cards to enable:
-- One-click account creation
-- Acceptance of 3rd-party-verified identity claims such as age or
residency
-- Reduced shopping cart abandonment by eliminating forgotten passwords
-- Increased customer loyalty through a faster, more secure web
experience
-- User benefits of Information Cards include:
-- Identity management: One place to input, store and update all
personal identity information
-- Eliminate passwords, forever
-- Simple "one-click" login at all of a user's favorite web sites
-- Increased privacy and security
-- About CardPress:
-- It is a free service
-- Enables any web site to issue and accept Information Cards in a
couple of days
-- Always on, 24x7 software as a service (SaaS) solution
-- Web sites access CardPress via a secure web-services API
-- For more information go to http://www.parity.com/cardpress
-- Information Cards:
-- Enjoy broad, worldwide industry support from many of the largest and
most influential technology, financial, security and identity
organizations
-- Take a familiar offline consumer behavior -- using a card to provide
information or prove identity -- and bring it to the online world
-- Are card-shaped icons on a computer screen; a user can have one or
many cards, each containing different information, and managed with
an online "wallet"
-- Allow users to assert information about themselves (name, email
address), and soon will provide personal information verified by a
trusted 3rd party like a bank or government entity (age, address)
-- Are protected by sophisticated security measures engineered to be
far more safe, convenient and user-controlled than today's web forms
and logins
-- Allow Web users to input and update the information in their "i
cards," with different levels of detail for different purposes
(social, business, casual, formal) and easily select the card they
want to use for any given online interaction
-- Are compatible with existing identity systems such as OpenID
Quote attributable to Paul Trevithick, CEO of Parity
"Information Cards represent the biggest web innovation since the browser.
For the first time, people can prove things about themselves while online to
create trust while preserving privacy and increasing security. With
CardPress, Parity is making it simple for any website to take advantage of
this innovation."
Quote attributable to Jack Connors, President of Parity
"By issuing Information Cards, web-based businesses are telling the world
that they value customer privacy and a better web experience. CardPress is a
cost-cutting, revenue-generating engine that helps businesses -- both small
and large -- quickly and emphatically make this statement to their customers."
Links to Related Content
Information Cards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Card)
User-centric Identity (video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edrcv-xUFtM)
Introduction to Digital Identity (video)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNGcKhqGMCw&feature=related)
Paul Trevithick (blog) -- with links to dozens of identity management
bloggers (http://www.incontextblog.com/)
Tags
Information Cards
Digital Relationships
Data Portability
Digital Identity
Identity Management
OpenID
Web 2.0 Identity
Information Security
Media Contact
John Fitzsimmons
781-223-5833
johnfitzsimmons@parityinc.net
SOURCE Parity
