It follows that an identity management solution should provide highly granular rules and policy expression capability to enable administrators to easily define how identities are to be used within different contexts.
Its architecture is very much a trust-broker middleware layer where trust services (in the form of identity management) are accessed by applications that need to verify identities. The Commission wants to see a greater number of "Codes of Conduct...
Andrew Lloyd, VP security management at CA, agreed it is of paramount importance that governments ensure federation is not akin to open season on identities - and he said it should be implemented to ensure only relevant data is viewable by...
According to Kellet, the particular problems associated with identity management are provisioning and deprovisioning of user identities, access control, and identity federation. Stevens said it is possible to build up a thin citizen-data substrate...
He cited an example - such as downloading movies online from a trusted third-party website - whereby BT Openworld consumers may be able to use the same federated identity for logging on to such services, without needing to manage multiple identities.
Simon Perry, VP of security at software vendor CA, one of the leading vendors in identity management software, explains: "The average user has access to six applications but around 17 identities. One of the benefits with an automated system is that...
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