October through December 2008
In the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, the MIT Kerberos Consortium celebrated its first anniversary and continued to make substantial progress towards its goals.
The Consortium released one highly significant white paper; "Towards Kerberizing Wed and Identity Services", in collaboration with our sponsors. This white paper charts a roadmap for enabling full-functional Kerberos on the world wide web.
The Consortium hired Thomas Hardjono, a well known leader in the IT security field, as its Strategic Advisor. He holds advanced degrees and has a decade of experience in open source software and security.
The Kerberos Consortium received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration and an accompanying $100,000 prize.
It held its third Executive Advisory Board meeting. It also convened a private Financial Services Security Summit in New York City that attracted 31 attendees from many of the largest investment banking firms.
The Kerberos Consortium team continues to make progress towards their development goals. It anticipates releasing a new version of Kerberos for all platforms in January 2009. This forthcoming release includes an implementation of the Microsoft Protocol Extensions to Kerberos. This will give the MIT version of Kerberos feature parity with that of Microsoft, at a key time when many businesses are looking cost savings on software capital investments.
New corporate interest in supporting the work of the Consortium has fallen off sharply with recent economic crisis. However, it has sufficient financial reserves to preserve operations until economic conditions improve. It will work to generate new types of revenue streams in the coming quarters; such as special project funding, interoperability testing fees, and grant funding.
July through September 2008
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