Third, identity systems must be able to check who is asking for the information, not just hand it over.
The name-matching software made by Identity Systems, based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, is used by more than 200 government agencies around the world.
The trouble is, it is not clear that these identity-verification systems are worth the cost and trouble of introducing them.
By doing so, companies can provide full business context across Identity and Access Management systems, connect to the full set of key applications and data resources, significantly lower the total cost of ownership and scale to modern enterprise environments.
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We may be reaching a point where the systems behind an identity card are becoming more important than the token itself.
No doubt there will be some benefits: fraud, in particular the persistent and increasingly annoying problem of identity theft, might be substantially reduced if biometric-identification systems, introduced in the form of passports, visas and identity cards, become widespread.
They might point out that email-compatible systems like PGP provide a much better proof of identity than an IM handle.
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One can legitimately question whether political and social systems in richer countries would suffer serious loss of cultural identity and social cohesion.
Managing identity is hard to do in a traditional data center comprised of heterogeneous systems and applications.
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In fact, the authentication techniques used to identity the king are similar to the identity-management techniques we apply in software and hardware to secure critical systems and applications.
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If we can improve our systems, we may be able to reap many of the benefits of having a national identity card without the burden or cost of actually having to implement one.
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