Identosphere 127: MS ID Layoffs • Forgerock Ditches Passwords • IAM Best Practices from NSA • NEO new from Ping

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Upcoming

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Digital Identity unConference Europe June 7-9 Zurich Registration is open. It will be run in a similar way to IIW and is an opportunity for all the eIDAS related projects to cross pollinate.

• New unConference for the Fediverse and future of social media: FediForum Johannes Ernst, Kaliya, Jennifer Holmes 3/29-30 (fediforum.org)

• MeetUp Holland FinTech: The Future of Banking Innopay 4/13 Rabobank, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• [Pre-IIW] OpenID Foundation Workshop at Microsoft 4/17

• Internet Identity Workshop 4/18-20, Mountain View, CA

• MeetUp Holland FinTech: The Future of Banking Innopay 4/13 Rabobank, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• eIDAS 2.0 l New Opportunities in Digital Identity INNOPAY 4/27

• The 19th Represents Summit on tech, justice, and economic mobility Chicago 5/18-20

• Heroes of Data Privacy – the practise-oriented data privacy conference in Vienna LionsGate 5/24 Vienna, Austria

Digital Trust Survey Trust over IP

eIDAS \ EBSI

[podcast, eIDAS2, EUIDWallet] eIDAS 2.0 & the EU Digital Identity Wallet Viky Manaila, Northern Block

This conversation with Viky started with a discussion around the history and evolution of eIDAS. [...] 

The European Commission launched a call for applications and selected four winning consortia: [EUDI Wallet, NOBID, Potential, DC4EU]

[EBSI] Conformant wallets - EBSI ec.europe.eu

an impressive list (compliance reports inside)
KayTrust NTT DATA, MynextID, Altme, CERTH-ITI, Data Wallet iGrant.io, Gataca, IMPULSE Wallet, eDiplomas Wallet, Poste Italiane, Primus Money, Talao, Utopia ID Wallet Thales, VIDwallet Validated ID, Wallet Kit walt.id, DS Wallet digitalsign, IDCluster Wallet iDAKTO, Corposign DID Systems Integration Solution, ID-Wallet Teknei

[EBSI, OACC] Finding your identity: how three governments are developing digital ID Global Government Forum

recently undertook a “self-sovereign identity” pilot, working alongside a local authority and universities in Belgium and Catalonia.

[…] No central record of the data was created, and the user retained full control of their data: “In this case, the student can show that he has a diploma from a university, but choose not to show where he lives,” Desset said.

Products

[walt.id, SSIKit] cheqd is now supported in walt.id’s SSI Kit! Cheqd ID

NEO: A New Decentralized Identity Management Solution Ping Identity

The verifiable credential is then added to the person's digital wallet and can be shared with the business that requires it. The individual is in complete control of what information gets shared.

PingOne Neo is a component of an open and interoperable platform that supports popular […] identity standards from the [W3C, OpenID Foundation, and ISO]

The IDtech Product Canvas and How to Use It Trinsic

While the first version of this tool was called the “Trust Ecosystem Canvas,” after a round of feedback we’ve made some adjustments to the name of the tool to clarify that it should not be used to map out an entire trust ecosystem

Vision Works

The Future of Digital Identity Management & KYC Lionsgate

There are several reasons why SSI is often considered superior to digital identity:

[employment] Are Digital Wallets the Future of Hiring? HR Magazine

applicants who have created digital wallets essentially give recruiters a digital “key” to unlock and view their wallet on a network. The candidates’ credentials are pre-verified and [attested] to the wallet by sources such as a university or former employer.

Standards Work 

KERI jargon in a nutshell (Part 1) Finema

Holy cow, that’s a lot of jargon [we agree]

[...] However, as I went down the KERI rabbit hole, I slowly became convinced that KERI is one of the most elegant, if not the most elegant, implementations for identity systems to date.

Travel

[Aruba, Travel, SITA, Indicio] SITA, Indicio start piloting decentralized identity passports for Aruba travel LedgerInsights

“As a Caribbean destination with one of the highest return rates, Aruba continually strives to implement innovative technology in an effort to deliver an exceptional travel experience from the moment travelers leave their homes,” said Ronella Croes, CEO of ATA

[SITA] SITA TESTS APP TO LET TRAVELERS DIGITALLY CROSS BORDER Phocuswire

The program, managed by SITA and Indicio in partnership with Aruba Tourism Authority, is an extension of work the organizations began at the start of the pandemic to create a blockchain-based app to verify COVID credentials

Personal Data

MyData Awards 2023: Celebrating ethical solutions for personal data

These organisations working to advance the MyData mission are recognised today for their solution-oriented and visionary work made real

The Personal Data & Identity Meeting of The Waters: A New Path To Value IdentityPraxis

the convergence of traditional organizational and people-centric approaches to personal data and identity management. Delving into the five domains of personal data, the dynamic landscape of personal data regulations, and new technologies that empower individuals to control and protect their data.

Is Privacy Dead? Alan Mitchell, MyDex

First, we need to be wary of the ways in which some people use claims about ‘facts’ as stalking horses for the hidden agendas. The claim that ‘privacy as dead’ is a case in point.

Market Signals

[tweet] I fell in love with the people and culture that was Microsoft Identity Merill Fernando

Now with half my immediate team gone and more across Identity it is the end of an era. It's not going to be the same again.

Digital Identity in Finance and Open Banking Indicio

“Half of Americans agree they’re less likely to buy something online if the entire checkout process takes longer than half a minute.” 

Web3 market may be slowing but stakeholder collaborations on ID are not Biometric Update

It is true, of course, that Web3-related placements of all recorded players are down compared to 2021 but there are other folds of IT funding today where investors with the deepest pockets are sitting it out.

Adoption

[video] Bhutan launches world’s 1st Decentralized National Digital Identity platform ToIP

The Kingdom of Bhutan through its Druk Holdings & Investment Group (DHI) has just launched a national platform based on SSI and portable digital credentials for all citizens, businesses, foreign workers and tourists.

[Algorand, FlexID, SriLanka, Bridge Advisory & Consulting] NSB launches South Asia’s first SSID Solution on Blockchain powered by FlexID FT

a layer 2 network blockchain solution has reimagined a protocol for the issuance, storage and sharing of verified digital identity credentials in a fully decentralised, user managed network environment, built on the Algorand Blockchain

Web3

Is DeFi really excluded from MiCA’s scope? Jonathan Galea, BCAS

This Regulation applies to natural, legal persons […] including when part of such activity or services is performed in a decentralized way. Where crypto-asset services as defined in this Regulation are provided in a fully decentralised manner without any intermediary they do not fall within the scope of this Regulation.

Web3 ID

• Decentralized digital identities and credentials are key to mass Web3 adoption Cointelegraph

• Gartner: Web3 Will Drive Decentralized Identity Adoption SDX Central

What Is Decentralized Identity? The Pillar of Web3 BlockWorks

Interesting map (infominer likes Blockworks Research)

Web3 Product Passports: The Regulatory Use Case Newsweek

New tokenization standards like NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and SBTs (soul-bound tokens) have unraveled critical technology to operationalize DPPs. The tokenization market is expected to be $17 trillion by 2030

Spruce Integrates Sign-In with Ethereum Into MetaMask for Better User Experience and Safety SpruceID

Identity not SSI

• [Forge Rock] is the first big player to ditch passwords TechRadar

• Passwordless Demystified Forge Rock

[howto] Passkeys: Using FIDO for Secure and Easy Authentication Phil Windley

If you're using a relatively modern OS on your smartphone, tablet, or computer, you shouldn't have to download anything. Sign up using your email (it doesn't have to be a real email address), do whatever your device asks when you click "Save a Passkey" (on my iPhone it does Face ID, on my MacOS laptop, it does Touch ID). Then sign out.

IAM Best Practices Guide for Administrators by CISA and the NSA, in the Enduring Security Framework (ESF). 

critical infrastructure organizations have a particular responsibility to implement, maintain, and monitor secure IAM solutions and processes

[PAM] A New Pamocracy is Growing Inside Your Organization KuppingerCole

In my forthcoming webinar (4/18) I talk about the new Pamocracy which is my term for describing this massive expansion of privileged access in a world where everything is connected to everything else. But like any other kind of power group, it must be controlled by policies, laws and regulations to make it work in the interest of the whole enterprise.

New Social

Open networks are more valuable than closed ones: the case for the Fediverse over Twitter and Facebook reb00ted

It’s clear that if both networks produce the same amount of total value, the open network is more valuable to its users (such as individuals and organizations), for the simple reason that there is no network proprietor who needs to get paid! The value entirely accrues to the network participants.

Thoughtful

Why finding purpose feels impossible MyDigitalFootprint

Balance is a necessity in every aspect of life.  Knowing if we are in or out of balance directly affects our ability to survive and thrive

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