Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
Remember that Digital Identity is a metaphor
The seminal Laws of Identity define a Digital Identity as a set of claims made...
I just don’t get Levels of Assurance
Updated August 17, 2022. IDAM practitioners and government authentication policy makers have settled on a...
Designing out identification uncertainty
A few of us have been debating Levels of Assurance on Twitter. It seems crucial...
Speaking of identity
The Identity movement is in crisis. Or at least, it should be. Recent weeks have...
NSTIC and banking don’t speak the same language
I first blogged about this over at Finextra in January, asking if banks and their...
Identity Evolves [AusCERT Conference Presentation Abstract]
This is the abstract for my paper that has been accepted in the main program...
Identity is dead! Long live identity!
While the post mortems of Cardspace and OpenID continue, surely the elephant in the room...
Programming is like playwriting
The software-as-a-profession debate continues largely untouched by each generation’s innovations in production methods. Most of...
Feb
Identities are brittle but crystal clear
This blog was updated and re-posted on 12 June 2012. I have been blogging and...
Simplifying assumptions for digital identity
I have criticised federated identity for being over-engineered, and described the Laws of Identity as...