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Decentralized Identity

At its most basic, decentralized Identity is about giving the control of your data back to you with a digital identity. Usually your data (sometimes called attributes, identifiers, and credentials, for example your birth date) are stored in a centralized location If you make an account on a company website, the data is likely stored by the company. You don’t hold your information and therefore you have less control over it.

Guide
Guide
Decentralized Identity – a Playbook for Your Enterprise
Where is the blockchain? Looking beyond the blockchain hype with Decentralized Identity. Gain a differentiated understanding of the potential of Decentralized Identity for your organization.
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Tools Choice
Tools Choice
Providers of Verified Identity
Evaluate the perfect provider of verified identity for your enterprise. Examine the entire market segment and get in-depth analysis of products and services. Make a well-informed decision based on...
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Blog
Blog
Implementing Decentralized Identity
The world is becoming digital, which means we increasingly need an effective, trusted, and convenient way to prove our identity as we interact with digital services from governments, retailers,...
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Leadership Brief
Leadership Brief
Guide to Implementing Decentralized ID
Because the Identity Fabric describes a set of connected enabling IT components that work together as a single entity rather than a concrete tool, there are infinite possible implementations of an...
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Event Recording
Event Recording
CIAM, Wallets, Decentralized - Where is "Traditional" CIAM Heading?
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Decentralizing Mobility, Coopetition and Platforms | Frontier Talk #1 - Dr. Harry Behrens
Frontier Talk
Decentralizing Mobility, Coopetition and Platforms | Frontier Talk #1 - Dr. Harry Behrens
Raj Hegde sits down with Dr. Harry Behrens, Head of Blockchain Factory at Daimler Mobility, to discuss how decentralization is transforming the fragmented mobility industry. Tune in to this...
Analyst Chat #37: COVID Response and Decentralized Identity Solutions/Verifiable Credentials
Analyst Chat
Analyst Chat #37: COVID Response and Decentralized Identity Solutions/Verifiable Credentials
Anne Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth discuss how decentralized identities and verifiable credentials help respond to the pandemic by powering contact tracing applications, immunity passports and...
Anne Bailey: Reimagining Identity: a Buyer’s Guide to Decentralized Identity
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Anne Bailey: Reimagining Identity: a Buyer’s Guide to Decentralized Identity
Blockchain is a reaction to real security and privacy concerns.  Whether or not you choose to adopt any blockchain solution, these concerns do exist and should be addressed in the way...
Prof. Dr. David Chadwick: COVID-19 Certificates for Everyone
Event Recording
Prof. Dr. David Chadwick: COVID-19 Certificates for Everyone
Working with the NHS, we are connecting our verifiable credentials infrastructure to its COVID-19 tests database so that we will be able to issue COVID-19 verifiable credentials to people in...
Interview with Dr. Andre Kudra
Event Recording
Interview with Dr. Andre Kudra
Markus Sabadello: U.S. Permanent Resident Cards with SSI
Event Recording
Markus Sabadello: U.S. Permanent Resident Cards with SSI
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has supported Self-Sovereign Identity technologies such as Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials for several years. Now,...
Will Abramson: Solving Problems with SSI
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Will Abramson: Solving Problems with SSI
An overview of a number of problem-driven use cases for SSI technology, focusing on a number of different domains; healthcare, distributed machine learning and education. A recap of research...
Adrian Doerk: Bringing Self-Sovereign Identity Into Practice: Lessons Learned from Lissi and the SSI for Germany Consortia
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Adrian Doerk: Bringing Self-Sovereign Identity Into Practice: Lessons Learned from Lissi and the SSI for Germany Consortia
In the future, you will not only decide where your data is stored, but also with whom you want to share your data. If you share data, everything will be logged for you and you will...
TJ Behe: Beyond Blockchain: Creating Value from Compliant Self-Sovereign Identity
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TJ Behe: Beyond Blockchain: Creating Value from Compliant Self-Sovereign Identity
Enterprise wants to focus on the value identity can bring beyond verified access. Whilst reducing identity management compliance risk and storage costs, more organizations are giving...
Joy Chik: Making Digital Privacy Real
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Joy Chik: Making Digital Privacy Real
Digital privacy is a central concern for pretty much everyone. But what does ‘privacy’ really mean? How do you get it and what does it cost you? The identity community has been hard at...
Decentralized Identity Could Become a Reality, but Blockchain May Not Be a Part of It
Blog
Decentralized Identity Could Become a Reality, but Blockchain May Not Be a Part of It
Decentralized Identity is a concept that may not be mainstream yet, but it is a term that embodies the sentiment that many individuals feel regarding the control they wish they had over their...
Blockchain: It’s not About Technology, It Is About Use Cases
Blog
Blockchain: It’s not About Technology, It Is About Use Cases
Today, the German Federal Government announced its Blockchain Strategy . What might sound as a great thing, falls short, for a number of reasons. One is that it is late: after the first hype...