Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: December 2007
Product Code: R464-674Description The evolution of online services has reached a stage at which difficult decisions about sharing identity and other personal information have to be made. There are inherent conflicts between the desire for privacy, which is also necessary for delivering secure services, and the desire for services that are efficient and easy to use. The topic under discussion is large, extending from enabling single sign-on to a range of services, to sharing large amounts of deeply personal information. In this report we examine how recent developments in standards and approaches move the discussion forward.
Table of Contents - Key messages
- Establishing single sign-on is proving difficult
- Liberty Alliance remains the intellectual driver
- Proprietary services have business potential
- Information sharing is a threat to security
- Requirements
- Confidentiality is a must
- Enterprise perspective
- Government perspective
- Individual perspective
- The information sharing challenge
- A field beset with problems
- The privacy dilemma
- Corporate use of personally identifiable information (PII)
- Government difficulties
- Handling liability
- People use multiple identities
- Legal constraints
- Technically, information protection is difficult
- Application of technology
- Two major avenues of application
- Developments
- Liberty Identity Assurance Framework
- OpenID
- Ping ID
- IdenTrust
- Microsoft and Experian launch a web identity service
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