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Creating persistent identities, that are validated or uplifted to the right trust levels for commerce, is key to services like online banking. This is meet by building relationships that deliver ‘Identity with Assurance’ as well as offering Data and Services Brokers, and Personal Data Management. This is all done under user consent, to supply information…
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Avoco has been working in the field of identity management for about 8 years now. Our history, however, was much more in the area of information security. We originated in the encryption/rights management space, seeing identity originally as a means to an end – access control.   We moved over to full-time Identity Access Management…
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Using some conservatism in the timescale, I’d say in the last 5 years the Identity Access Management (IAM) scene has seen some major changes. We have gone from the closed Directory type environments, which were (fairly) straightforward when on-boarding users, to mass adopted open consumer systems, with the type of demographic, UX designers dread. It…
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The old adage, by Peter Steiner of the New Yorker “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” has never been truer. As an organization, trying to build an identity system for external users you need to know who you are dealing with. But proving that you are, who you say you are…in an online…
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