(Taking a quick break from my Identity posts …) I am currently out attending the Local and Regional Government Solutions Forum in Bilbao, which is turning into a great event.  One thing that has just been announced is the Microsoft Business Value...

So before I move off the authentication topic, I just wanted to put forward a question.  Do we need strong authentication for Government Online Services? The answer has to come down to ‘what am I doing online’.  I personally perform a vast amount...

One of the the primary roles of the Identity Provider is to authenticate the user that has been sent there. There are a number of long standing ways of doing this, like User ID and Password which although having some pretty basic flaws it is still in...

Previous Posts in this series: eID for Governments Federation for Governments Overview Identity Providers is a big topic so I am going to break it into a couple of posts. Firstly general information about Identity Providers and in my next...

(Following on from the previous post - eID for Governments ) So why federation?  I want to explore how federation works and why I think it is so well suited to Governments.  I have written these posts so they are not too technical as there is...

Citizen identity online is still one of the hardest things for a Government to get right.  In a way it is strange that it is such a problem, we have been doing ID in the physical world for thousands of years.  Some of the first ‘official’ identity...