Managing Information Security, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4

Online Identity and User Management Services

Tewfiq El Maliki* and Jean-Marc Seigneur^†,    ^*University of Applied Sciences of Geneva,    ^†University of Geneva

Digital identity is the ground necessary to guarantee that the Internet infrastructure is strong enough to meet basic expectations such as security and privacy. Anywhere anytime mobile computing is becoming true. In this ambient intelligent world, the choice of the identity management mechanisms will have a large impact on social, cultural, business and political aspects: privacy is a human need and the all of society would suffer from the demise of privacy; people have hectic life and cannot spend their whole time administering their digital identities. The choice of identity ...