Identity Management? Or (Id)Entity Mismanagement?

Dr Roger Clarke, Australian National University

3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

Roger Clarke is a consultant with particular expertise in electronic business, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy. His work encompasses corporate strategy, government policy and public advocacy. He has spent over 30 years in the IT industry, in Sydney, London, Zürich and Canberra, as professional, manager, senior academic, consultant and company Director and Chair. He holds degrees in Information Systems from UNSW and a doctorate from the ANU. He is the Principal of Xamax Consultancy, a Visiting Professor and Fellow at the ANU, UNSW, and the University of Hong Kong. He has been a Fellow of the ACS since 1986. Dr Clarke has published scores of papers, all since 1995 at his ANU Website, which attracts over 2 million hits per year.

During the last few years, the topics of user/password pairs, single-sign-on and digital signature keys have matured into 'identity management'. Unfortunately, the standards groups and the purveyors of currently-available identity management products have built on a swamp.

This presentation will show how some fundamental misunderstandings are rendering current approaches ineffective. It will draw on material from a recent monograph on the topic, in order to distinguish the various competing architectures, and highlight the issues that need to be addressed.

Reference
Clarke R. (2004) "Identity Management: The Technologies, Their Business Value, Their Problems, Their Prospects", Xamax Consultancy.

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Last Updated: 8 November 2004