Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

© Yvonne Wilson, Abhishek Hingnikar  2019

Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5095-2_21

21. Looking into the Crystal Ball

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

—Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for inventing holography, from Inventing the Future (1963)

If we had a crystal ball, what would it show for the future of identity management? As the swirling mists part in our all-seeing globe, it would undoubtedly show identity management becoming increasingly necessary in the ...