Lockstep Consulting & Lockstep Technologies Lockstep is dedicated to strategic research, analysis and advice in digital identity and privacy. Lockstep Consulting helps organisations come to grips with emerging identity technologies (especially public key infrastructure and smartcards), by developing strategy, policy and best practice.

Lockstep Technologies conducts a self-funded R&D program in digital identity and privacy protection, and has made several award-winning breakthroughs applying smart authentication technologies to address Card Not Present fraud, medical records confidentiality, age proofing and e-voting. Is your identity management strategy likely to last more than a year? Digital Identity has become a complex field -- we think too complex sometimes. You may be trying to combat identity fraud, streamline services, improve digital confidence, simplify security technology, and/or comply with emerging best practice, while actually accelerating online services to your customers, partners and staff. You will probably experience pressure to "federate" identity but you may be lost in the jungle amongst "NSTIC", "NEAF", "OpenID", "Cardspace" and "Kantara". What does all this really mean to you? Many organisations are caught somewhere between analysis paralysis and jumping too soon onto a bandwagon with an unknown outlook. Lockstep Consulting offers independent research, analysis, advice, strategy and policy development, to help organisations break through the identity management challenge. Lockstep is expert in: digital identity privacy Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Threat & Risk Assessment (TRA) IdM technologies like smartcards and PKI the verticals of government, e-health and financial services, and governance and regulatory regimes.