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Village Research provides your organization with vital information and services about the most important part of Identity Management: the identities themselves.

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About Us

Village Research provides information and services to organizations that seek to improve security, manageability and responsiveness through the effective use of reliable Enrollment, Provisioning and Identity Management methods and technology, assisting corporations, governments, agencies, the military and technological development communities in the optimum IM innovation and implementation.

Our Products and Services  
We pride ourselves on a big picture, future outlook backed up by real-world expertise and specialized analysis. Subscribe to all of our publications, purchase one publication at a time, or ask us about our unique IDQA™ service, an in-depth survey your organization's enrollment and credential needs, with complete recommendations.

Why We're Different  
Most industry analysts make their case from the sidelines. We like to know that we are right, and never shy from looking under the hood. Our mantra is 'Identity is the Foundation of Security™' -- You can rely on the authenticity of our no nonsense approach.

Who We are  
Wes Kussmaul, Founder, CIO and Research Director  
Gail Austin, Director of Sales and Marketing
Robert Palmer, Chief Operations Analyst  
J.Robin Hood, Chief Operations Officer
William Schmitt, Chief Architecture Analyst  
Marjorie  Peskin, Senior Identity Analyst  
Dr. Peter Hadley, Senior Software Analyst  
Sara Kussmaul, Senior Strategy Analyst  
Denise Lochtenbergh, Senior Information Architect  
Joanna Lilly, Senior Notarial Consultant

Our History  
Village Research is a unit of The Village Group, a spinoff of Delphi Internet Services Corporation.  Founded in 1981, Delphi earned its claim as "The Company That Popularized The Internet" by harnessing the popular curiosity that had grown around the early Internet during the time when its usage had been limited to researchers and academics. Delphi was the first to capitalize on the lifting of the ban on commercial activity on the Net.   

The Village Group had been launched as an independent spinoff of Delphi, and was not part of News Corporation acquisition. The company served magazine publishers and business clients by designing, building and managing their own private-label online services. During the next twelve years The Village Group provided business planning, design, engineering, hosting, management and promotion services for Digital Equipment Corporation, William F. Buckley's National Review, BioTechniques, Hardcopy, International Business, Business Digest, and many other companies and magazines.   

In 1998 The Village Group sold its hosting business to NTT Verio in order to focus its resources on meeting the need for reliable identities of participants in online spaces. Three years later the first component of the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure, the VIVOS® Enrollment Workstation, was introduced.  In 2002 The Village Group became a signatory to the International Telecommunication Union's World e-Trust Initiative, whose goal is to bring the benefit of PKI-based authenticity to the online world.

Future  
The world is coming to realize that it needs more than information highways. In the physical world, highways bring us to spaces called buildings where we can share information in ways that are private, secure, and manageable. Identity is the Foundation of Security™  and The Village Group is dedicated to providing our clients with the virtual equivalent of buildings, where bounded spaces for specific workgroups provide built-in security and manageability.

 
Village Research is a Premier Partner  
in the QEI Alliance.  

Village Research is a unit of The Village Group.
The Village Group is a Charter Signatory to the ITU's World e-Trust Initiative and a Premier Partner in the QEI Alliance