Identosphere 244 Sept 8-14: Dynamic Authorization Book • Andrew Nash Passed Away • Agentic Anthropomorphism • DPI: ID and Interoperability
This is the weekly Identosphere Newsletter sharing highlights from around the web covering Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity curated by Kaliya Young, Identity Woman.
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Dynamic Authorization comes to life through the all-too-real access control struggles facing the fictional ACME Corp’s customer, HR, and engineering systems. Step-by-step walkthroughs make these examples concrete, while real-world incidents—like the Target data breach—show what’s at stake when authorization goes wrong. You’ll implement a dynamic authorization framework integrating the Cedar authorization policy language and the RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC models, and you’ll design adaptive policies that reflect real business rules. Plus, you’ll build governance structures with clear ownership, aligned teams, and processes to review, audit, and evolve at scale.
“We’ve been talking about identity and access for people for decades (well, millennia if you think outside the tech box). Policies, role assign ments, reviews, zero trust — these are familiar tools. The assumptions that go into them, however, don’t quite work when the “user” is no longer a person.”
There’s a simple but powerful reason to embrace the personification of agents: it works. Here’s why modeling AI agents like human users makes security more intuitive and operationally sound.
We’re moving beyond isolated AI systems toward a future where autonomous agents form complex networks of interaction, cooperation, and competition. At the heart of this transformation lies a fundamental concept that mirrors human society itself: the personal social graph.
In this article, we’ll explore how Digital Product Passports work in practice, how cheqd’s technology can underpin them, and how different industries could leverage it to build more trustworthy and resilient supply chains.
Digi Yatra, a Self-Sovereign Identity initiative serving 10 million users across 24 countries, will expand to four more airports. It is set to receive a Gold Award at the National e-Governance Awards on September 22–23 in Visakhapatnam
A few years ago, an ID card printer reseller asked us if we could help the Haudenosaunee Confederacy with design and printing of a new secure citizenship card…[The post shares the story of what they did]
eIDAS 2.0 entered into force in May 2024. By mid-2025, the European Commission will deliver the full technical architecture and interoperability standards. Every EU member state must begin piloting compliant wallets, with at least one publicly available by 2026.
We sat down with Viky Manaila (Trust Services Director at Intesi Group) and Vedran Lalic (Digital Identity Consultant at the World Bank) to break down a massive topic:
By 2026, eIDAS 2.0 will change how digital identity works in Europe.
Identity becomes Trust because Identity can be 'represented' through standards/protocols, un-bundling and re-bundling provide composability and Trust Infrastructure provides Governance.
Key innovations of this proposal include: Self-Sovereign Digital Identity (DID/SSI) is included as a key innovation.
Proposal for a Regulatory Framework for Digital Assets: An Ethical and Inclusive Infrastructure for Market Integrity and Investor Protection Submitted as a Public Comment to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) This proposal is offered for consideration by the SEC's Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub) to enhance regulatory clarity in digital assets. We welcome feedback and dialogue to refine this framework.
The Algorand Foundation launched its new Aid Trust Portal, an online portal to track and visualize humanitarian aid payments. The portal is designed to track the flow of assets in and out of wallets, similar to how block explorers track transactions and activity on blockchains.
We're excited to announce that the Vidos Universal Resolver now supports did:webvh, the latest evolution in decentralized identifier technology that's already powering Switzerland's national digital identity system. This addition strengthens our commitment to providing comprehensive, standards-based identity verification infrastructure for enterprises navigating the rapidly evolving digital identity landscape.
Hi everyone - this is Pamela Dingle, Andrew’s wife. I have the sad task of letting you all know that Andrew Nash has passed away, after a short but fierce battle with pancreatic cancer.
