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The Architecture of Identity Systems

Phil Windley

Summary: The architecture of an identity system has a profound impact on the nature of the relationships it supports. Introductory note: I recently read a paper from Sam Smith, Key Event Receipt Infrastructure , that provided inspiration for a way to think about and classify identity systems. Wikipedia defines legitimacy as.

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Insider Threat: A perspective on how to address the increasing risk

CTOvision

However, in June of 2013, a systems administrator at the National Security Agency (NSA) reminded us of the threat that already exists within an organization, behind the protection of its sophisticated, complex perimeter security. We recommend architectures that also enable analysis of streaming data.

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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

But they constrain architectural choices to ensure that the universal identity metasystem is not just usable, but also safe and secure. Messaging —the architecture must support messaging between the parties to those relationships. Relationships are created using a system of peer-to-peer agents in Layer 2.

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