Decentralized Identity Explained: Embrace decentralization for a more secure and empowering digital experience (Paperback or Softback)

Delve into the cutting-edge trends of decentralized identities, blockchains, and other digital identity management technologies and leverage them to craft seamless digital experiences for both your customers and employees

Key Features

• Explore decentralized identities and blockchain technology in depth
• Gain practical insights for leveraging advanced digital identity management tools, frameworks, and solutions
• Discover best practices for integrating decentralized identity solutions into existing systems
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Looking forward to mastering digital identity? This book will help you get to grips with complete frameworks, tools, and strategies for safeguarding personal data, securing online transactions, and ensuring trust in digital interactions in today's cybersecurity landscape.

Decentralized Identity Explained delves into the evolution of digital identities, from their historical roots to the present landscape and future trajectories, exploring crucial concepts such as IAM, the significance of trust anchors and sources of truth, and emerging trends such as SSI and DIDs. Additionally, you’ll gain insights into the intricate relationships between trust and risk, the importance of informed consent, and the evolving role of biometrics in enhancing security within distributed identity management systems. Through detailed discussions on protocols, standards, and authentication mechanisms, this book equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of digital identity management in both current and future cybersecurity landscapes.

By the end of this book, you’ll have a detailed understanding of digital identity management and best practices to implement secure and efficient digital identity frameworks, enhancing both organizational security and user experiences in the digital realm.

What you will learn

• Understand the need for security, privacy, and user-centric methods
• Get up to speed with the IAM security framework
• Explore the crucial role of sources of truth in identity data verification
• Discover best practices for implementing access control lists
• Gain insights into the fundamentals of informed consent
• Delve into SSI and understand why it matters
• Explore identity verification methods such as knowledge-based and biometric

Who this book is for

This book is for cybersecurity professionals and IAM engineers/architects who want to learn how decentralized identity helps to improve security and privacy and how to leverage it as a trust framework for identity management.

Table of Contents

1. The History of Digital Identity
2. Identity Management Versus Access Management
3. IAM Best Practices
4. Trust Anchors/Sources of Truth and Their Importance
5. Historical Source of Authority
6. Relationships between Trust and Risk
7. Informed Consent and Why It Matters
8. IAM – the Security Perspective
9. Self-Sovereign Identity
10. Privacy by Design in the SSI Space
11. Relationship between DIDs and SSI
12. Protocols and Standards – DID Standards
13. DID Authentication
14. Identity Verification
15. Biometrics Security in Distributed Identity Management

Rohan Pinto, a cryptography geek with three decades of experience in security and identity management, has founded multiple businesses leveraging blockchain and identity management advancements. He specializes as a senior identity and access management architect, focusing on large-scale infrastructures for identity management, authentication, and authorization (RBAC, ABAC, RiskBAC, and TrustBAC). Rohan was the lead architect for the Government of Ontario's security infrastructure and British Columbia's Health Information Access Layer (HIAL), and he is currently developing the US Department of Defense's Security Access Layer using Common Access Cards (CACs). He mentors emerging talent through Techstars and Founder Institute and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, Decentralized Identity Foundation, and FIDO Alliance. Rohan combines strategic vision with technical expertise to drive tech-based growth, enhancing security and compliance throughout project life cycles.