Announcing the IPSIE Working Group

Published October 15, 2024

The OpenID Foundation is delighted to announce the formation of the Interoperability Profiling for Secure Identity in the Enterprise (IPSIE) Working Group. This WG aims to tackle key challenges that underlie identity security in today's enterprise environments. 

The Core Challenge

Identity and Access Management (IAM) within the enterprise is a multifaceted endeavor, as indicated by the growing Body of Knowledge maintained by IDPro. There is a broad range of specifications that are relevant to securing the many IAM functions that underpin operations. Some of these are OIDF standards - like OpenID Connect, FAPI, and Shared Signals - while others are maintained in different standards bodies. For example, IPSIE has already identified the IETF's OAuth 2.0 and System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) as relevant to their initial scope (below). But these specifications are written to support many contexts and use cases; they contain optionality that reduces the likelihood that independent implementations will interoperate. 

The IPSIE Working Group will develop secure-by-design profiles of these existing specifications with a primary goal of achieving interoperability across enterprise implementations.

Getting Involved

According to its Charter, the IPSIE WG will initially focus on standards that support:

  • Single Sign-On
  • User Lifecycle Management
  • Entitlements
  • Risk Signal Sharing
  • Logout
  • Token Revocation.

As of this publication, the WG is meeting weekly on Tuesdays, though Contributors should always check the OpenID Calendar for any updates to the schedule. To stay up-to-date with the latest news, please join the IPSIE mailing list.

About the OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, the Financial Grade API has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue to enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate.
 
Find out more at openid.net.
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