Category Archives: Federated Identity
Bob is dead
With apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche. The hero of many a crypto folk tale Bob is...
Despite the IdM hype, privacy and security remain uneasy bedfellows
The information security sub-specialisation of Digital Identity has spurred prodigious activity in the past decade,...
Customer, How do I know thee?
One of the main contentions of the Identity Metasystem, NSTIC and like models is that...
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...
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 is dead! Long live identity!
While the post mortems of Cardspace and OpenID continue, surely the elephant in the room...
An improved frame for understanding Digital Identity
I’ve always been uneasy about the term “ecosystem” being coopted when what is really meant...
Total cost of ownership of Multiple Identities
Federated Identity and before that, Single Sign On (SSO), are responses to the password plague....
No easy fix for federated identity liability
One of the many open questions in the proposed National Strategy for Trusted Identities in...