Information Assurance

3.5. Digital Identity Management

Digital identity can be defined as the digital representation of the information known about a specific individual or organization. Such a notion encompasses not only log-in names (often referred to as nyms), but many additional pieces of information, referred to as identity attributes or identifiers. Digital identity management is the set of processes, tools, social contracts, and a supporting infrastructure for creating, maintaining, utilizing, and terminating a digital identity. Identity management has strong links with security, privacy, and trust. Traditionally, identity management has been a core component, in some limited form, of system security environments in which it is used for maintaining account ...