Identity in Modern Applications

Maintaining, validating, and—most importantly—trusting in identity is crucial to modern computer applications. Clearly, modern identity management techniques must keep up with modern application development.

Nearly every company in existence today needs to deal with identity, and every executive, director, and manager of those companies needs to understand what identity is all about and why managing it securely is important. This report is for tech leaders who want insight into how identity works, how the techniques used to manage identity impact customers, and what future techniques are on the horizon that will meet the growing security needs of cloud-based applications.

What Is Application Identity?

In the software world, identity is the mapping of a person, place, or thing in a verifiable manner to a software resource. In the abstract, this is easy, but in reality, it is a complex process, especially when the identity mapping has to be verified as genuine and authentic.

Everyone deals with identity when they interact with nearly anything on the internet. A Facebook identity, an email address, and a username/password for a website are just a few examples. People deal with identities all the time.

But there is more to identity than just connecting José and Jennifer through their Instagram accounts. Everything you interact with in the real world that has a presence in the virtual world has to deal with identity.

Identity management is the term ...