On Nov. 16 and 17 in Arlington, Virginia, the Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP) will start work on a comprehensive set of standards and guidelines that businesses and other organizations can use to prevent and respond to identity theft and fraud.

The panel’s goal is to compile all existing standards and guidelines relating to identity theft into a single resource, and to identify areas where they should be updated or a new standard is needed.

Linda Parnes, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, will be a featured speaker at the event. Topics to be addressed include data-breach notification and data custody best practices; challenges of identity authentication; industry, consumer and government countermeasures to data abuse; and legislative and regulatory developments. The conference will be sponsored by the American National Standards Institute and the Better Business Bureau.

Membership in the IDSP is open to all affected parties. For more information, visit www.ansi.org/idsp.

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