April 2009 - Posts
(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
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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
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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
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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 post I am going
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(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
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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
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