Assignment 3.2: Digital Identity Management Challenges

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3.2. Digital Identity Management Challenges-

The selection and use of identities vary depending upon the sectors that one uses. There may be private sectors e.g. Financial and Banking, Healthcare, and E-commerce or there may be public sectors e.g. any social networking site (Facebook, Twitter). Maintaining the digital identity is cumbersome job because it involves lot of challenges and controls. Here are few challenges listed-

1- Lack of High Assurance-Many widespread digital identity management practices currently in use are not robust enough to support the development of higher value services which carry a higher level of risk. E.G. A number of offline services (hosting sensitive resources) can’t be made online because they require such …show more content…

Therefore, every change of user status has to be updated for each system separately. The administrations of identity e.g. create, update, or delete user data is difficult to automate and is an error-prone activity. In such cases, there is a need to switch these solo systems to commonly well adopted systems. Nowadays, with so many identity management systems proposed, the big question is which one, will provide the identity solution to become standard/interoperable identity management across the …show more content…

Sun Microsystems formed the Liberty Alliance along with other large corporations including Sprint, Sony, Verisign, and eBay. The project targeted to create a competing single sign-on system based on a federation of trusted parties.

5. The Future of Digital Identity

It is fact that digital identity establishment is perennial process. It sets significant demands to system quality. The tendency of users to use mobile devices to interact in the social and corporate level, projecting to a further rise of digital identity, a "unique identifier" that contains information on each individual, history and interests which helps businesses to get to know them better to offer them needful services and on real time. They are also able to expand its business to new markets or to outline its position in the market.

As companies link themselves more closely with their customers, employees, and partners, federated identity mechanisms must scale to accommodate new demands and counter a wide variety of threats. Governments as “identity providers” can help offering high-value trust-based economic and social interactions online for enabling high level identity assurance. It can also act as a driving force to help market players adopt consistent identity management

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