Village Research - Analyzing Identity for the Global Village -- the Internet
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Village Research provides your organization with vital information and services about the most important part of Identity Management: the identities themselves.
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The quality, and therefore the reliability, of the identities in yoursystem are independent of the way in which those identities are used.In other words, Identities are not the same thing as IdentityManagement.
Learn about the Six Dimensions of Identity Quality
1.) How much rigor is exercised in enrollment? How closely is the Registration Authority bound to the Certification Authority?
What's the nature of the Certification Authority behind the identity assertions?
2.) What are the essential characteristics of the physical credential?
3.) Is one key pair used for everything, or are different key pairs used for their respective applications?
4.) How is provisioning performed? How is the process supervised and audited? How many eyes are watching?
5.) Does the user have "skin in the game?" Or are the organization's assets the only ones at risk?
6.) Who assumes liability for the quality of the enrollment? For the careof the credential after enrollment? The re-issue when lost (forgotten)?
IDQA™
Identity Quality Assurance Who is touching that marketing strategy file? That collaboration on the SEC 10Q report - is that really the CFO in there, or some impostor?
Is that one-time password token the security panacea that it's purported to be?
By focusing on the identities themselves, not just the way they are managed, IDQA™ gives your information infrastructure a new level of security and manageability.
What's New
WSIS and the future of global technology The World Summit on the Information Society has made its Tunis phase recommendations to the ITU, which will rely upon them in revising its charter and in putting in place methods and standards that will help bring much-needed authenticity to the world's information infrastructures.
Join The Village Group, a Charter Signatory to the World e-Trust Initiative, and other forward-looking enterprises, world leaders, NGOs and IT professionals in this important effort. Visit WSIS
