Digital Identity Strategy

Justin J. Taylor

Chief Strategist, Digital Identity

Office of the CTO

jutaylor@novell.com

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The Agenda

Challenge

“To arouse or stimulate especially by presenting with difficulties ”*

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Any one creates complexity…putting them together generates chaos!

The Challenges of Business Today

Causality

“The relation between a cause and its effect or between regularly correlated events or phenomena”*

Effect

Inhibits agility

Limits collaboration

Increases cost and risk

These challenges apply to more than just human beings.

EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communication

People

Messages: email

Messages: SMS

Servers

Etc.

Entities of the Enterprise

Technology Answers

These tend be completely “siloed” systems.

Different protocols, standards, tools, and management styles

Lack of a common paradigm

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Paradigm

“A philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind”*

Changing the paradigm

Changing the way
we think

Changing the Paradigm

Quote

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Changing the Definition

Digital Identity

“The distinguishing characteristics of an entity in a digital system”

Digital Identity

“The distinguishing characteristics of an entity in a digital system”

Entity:

The term “entity” can refer to any type of resource

Distinguishing characteristics:

Attributes. An identity is the “sum” of its attributes

Digital Identities

Digital Identity

“The distinguishing characteristics of an entity in a digital system”

Entity:

The term “entity” can refer to any type of resource

Distinguishing characteristics:

Attributes. An identity is the “sum” of its attributes

Digital Identity

“The distinguishing characteristics of an entity in a digital system”

Industry efforts to give “non-carbon based life-forms” an identity

Trusted Computing

Digital Rights
Management (DRM)

Radio Frequency
Identitifier (RFID)

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Model

“A thing that serves as a pattern …”*

Novell Identity Services Foundation

Identity Driven Computing Model™

Common set of services
utilized by…

Identity-Driven Systems

Identity Driven Computing Model™

Common set of services
utilized by…

…today’s, as well as next

generation, systems
and applications to…

Integrated through a services-oriented architecture.

Enterprise Identities

Identity Driven Computing Model™

Common set of services
utilized by…

…today’s, as well as next

generation, systems
and applications to…

…manage the behavior
between all the identities
in your enterprise to

address the challenges

of business.

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The Identity-Driven™ Enterprise

Identity Driven Computing Model™

Revolutionary Model

“Constituting or bringing about a major or fundamental change“*

Evolutionary Implementation

“A process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, … or better state”*

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Action

“Bringing about … an alteration by force or through a natural agency ”*

The Identity-Driven™ Enterprise
in Action

Distributed

Centralized

Centralized

Ability to holistically manage crucial

business components within the confines

of regulations and corporate governance,…

The Balance

Possible via SOA

The Pendulum Swing of Computing

Distributed

… while providing delegation of authority

to balance the load across the organizations

as well as allowing for individual

line-of-business needs.

Middleware

Intrinsic/Embedded

The Pendulum Swing of Computing

Technology embedded into a system

Loosely-coupled to enterprise management system (I.e. Enterprise Directory)

http://magazine.digitalidworld.com/Sep04/index.htm

The Business Case for Identity-Driven Computing

http://www.novell.com/idenity

Identity-Driven Computing Website

Building Intelligent Enterprises with Identity Driven Computing

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