Phil Griffin

Phil Griffin has been actively involved in developing security and electronic commerce standards for the Financial Services Industry since 1996. He serves as Vice Chair of the ISO TC68/SC2 Security Management and General Banking Operations subcommittee, Convenor of the SC2 Public Key Infrastructure Management working group, and Vice Chair of the X9 Security Applications committee currently revising X9.84, the US national biometric security standard. Mr. Griffin chairs the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical Committee and the OASIS Security Standards Joint Committee (SJC). He is owner of Griffin Consulting and architect of BioloJava, a biometric security tool kit designed for building secure X9.84 and XCBF based applications.

Articles Introduction To XACML A new markup language has been approved by OASIS which promises to standardize policy management and access decisions. Extensible Access Control Markup Language, or XACML, was approved and became an OASIS standard in February 2003. XACML defines a general policy language used to protect resources as well as an access decision language.  Feb. 19, 2004