The Future of Digital Identity

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The Future of Digital Identity

• Mahi de Silva
• Vice President, Corporate Technology Strategy
• VeriSign Inc.
• Digital ID World 2002

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What Makes Up Your Identity?
Your face
Your business card/ ID badge/membership card
Your signature
Your drivers license/Passport
Your credit cards
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How About Your Business Identity?

• Brand Name
• Credit rating
• DB listing
• Product catalog
• Customer service
• Domain name (www.amazin.com)
• Network Addresses

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Identity Trust Commerce



Consumer ID

Business ID



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Same Threats, Bigger Impact

• Personal Identity
• Identity Theft
• Credit Card Theft
• Invasion of Privacy
• Personal liability

• Business Identity
• Fraud
• Impersonation
• Reputation
• Customer Data

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The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle
Source Jupiter MediaMetrix, IDC, SMS,
MobleStreams/Economist
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Many Types of Trusted Interactions
Web Identity
SMS
Email
Business Communications
Wired Calls
Commerce
Wireless Calls
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Future of Digital Identityis a Networked Identity
E-mail Address
Phone Numbers
Network Address
Domain Name
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Networked Identity Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Transactions
Identifiers Validation
Digital
Physical
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Identity Management
Identity Management has to happen at Massive
Scale Across a Self-Healing Globally Distributed
Infrastructure With 99.999 reliability To Be
Successful
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Consumer Initiatives Single Sign-On

• Passport, Liberty, Magic Carpet Network
• Establishes a unique Digital ID
• Binding trusted attributes to that identity
  makes it vastly more useful (and dangerous)
• How is information managed and brokered?

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Federated Identity

• Distributed Environment
• Enforcement of common policies and procedures
• Meta directories pointing to many data sources
• User control
• Web Services Framework

TRUST IS KEY
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Business Initiatives Web Services
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And Much More
legislation
ID
National ID cards
State and Federal legislation
smart cards
Alliance
Magic Carpet
Hardware Smart cards biometrics
Passport
biometrics
Digital IDs
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Hardware and Identity
ID
User Identity
TCPA
smart cards
Intel Banias

Secure Bios
Device Identity
Palladium
Trusted Computing
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Mobile Commerce

• 2.5 and 3G network build out
• Soft goods, games, media
• Mobile commerce requires Network Identity services

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Convergence of Communication

• Merging of Voice and Data, Networks and Services
• Voice over IP
• Privacy, Security, Authentication
• Global reach

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ENUM

• Phone number as unique identifier

Service Provisioning Registration Application
Application Interface
ENUM DNS
DNS/ENUM Resolver Interface
RRP EPP
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Deployment Remains the Issue

• Ease of use
• Government policy
• Interoperability
• Slow progress

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The Future of Digital Identity

• Identity and Trust will always be linked
• Many more identifiers, many more risks
• No going back
• Lots of activity
• Socio-economic evolution
• Technology is only part of the solution

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Thank You