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(note to self, don't start writing a series of posts unless you have them all ready to publish otherwise they seem to go on forever!) eID for Governments Federation for Government Overview Identity Providers Authentication Methods Do you need strong authentication?
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So where were we…. eID for Governments Federation for Government Overview Identity Providers Authentication Methods Do you need strong authentication? The last thing that we looked at was authenticating somebody at the identity provider. If we assume
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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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We are hosting this year’s Local and Regional Government Solutions forum in Bilbao on the 22nd and 23rd April. The site is up and running here and if you want to come along please speak to your local Microsoft rep, or contact Claire Bibby ( cbibby@microsoft.com
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