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Roadblocks for shared IDs: Trust, immature standards |
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Source: nwfusion.com - Posted by Vincenzo Ciaglia
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Speaking at last week's Digital ID World conference, American Express, Fidelity Investments, Boeing, Fifth Third Bank, Premier and a host of other companies shared their hopes, early successes and concerns as they try to integrate their identity management services with business partners and customers. . . .
Speaking at last week's Digital ID World conference, American Express, Fidelity Investments, Boeing, Fifth Third Bank, Premier and a host of other companies shared their hopes, early successes and concerns as they try to integrate their identity management services with business partners and customers.
The goal is the ability to have users authenticate themselves to their local network and then be able to pass that authentication to partners for access to services or data on the partner's network.
The concept, known as federated identity, would ease user management and the associated costs, improve network security, provide a means to document regulatory compliance and fuel e-commerce and Web services that let partners share computing resources.
Early adopters are reporting some of those benefits mainly in combination with business partners with whom they already have a relationship. Those relationships, they say, are the place to start because they reduce the trust and legal issues inherent in sharing user data and exposing corporate systems.
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