Digital Identity Management and Trust Negotiation

Abstract

As more and more activities and processes such as shopping, discussion, entertainment and business collaboration are conducted in the cyber world, digital identities, be them user names, passwords, digital certificates, or biometric features and digital identity management have become fundamental to underpinning accountability in business relationships, controlling the customization of the user experience, protecting privacy, and adhering to regulatory controls. In its broadest sense, identity management revolves around the enterprise process of adding or removing (provisioning) digital identity information and managing their authentication and associated access rights (policy) to information systems and applications (“access management”).