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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
Decentralizing Identity for the Digital Era
Every day the world is becoming more digital, which means we increasingly need an effective, trusted, and convenient way to prove our identity as we interact with digital services from...
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Advisory Note
Advisory Note
How Enterprises Will Learn to Love Decentralized IDs: The Roles of Distributed and Sovereign Identities in Our Private Metaverse
Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated in captivating detail a working beta version of photorealistic—or rather, video realistic—avatars in the metaverse. Zuckerberg also claims that this...
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Event Recording
Event Recording
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...
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Make Decentralized Identity work in the real world with Decentralized Ecosystem Governance
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Make Decentralized Identity work in the real world with Decentralized Ecosystem Governance
Decentralized identity has long been seen as a solution to the interconnected problems of verification, privacy, and security online, but now that it is being deployed in the marketplace, how does...
Digital Trust in the Metaverse & Decentralized Internet of Everything
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Digital Trust in the Metaverse & Decentralized Internet of Everything
Phishing, hacking, threats, fraud, and malicious behavior online of all types all share a common root: verification. In this session we’ll go beyond identity and explain how decentralized...
Centralized eID May be the Target of the Next Nordstream Pipeline Attack
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Centralized eID May be the Target of the Next Nordstream Pipeline Attack
With the vast centralization of government digitization in general, and issuance and operation of Digital Identity services in particular, the Nordic countries have made themselves unnecessarily...
When SSI Meets IoT: Challenges and Opportunities
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When SSI Meets IoT: Challenges and Opportunities
In this session, I will first talk about the design considerations and challenges when applying SSI to IoT, followed by the description of an initiative for creating an embedded SDK for SSI....
Solving a Logistical Nightmare: Imagining a Decentralized Identity Future at DB Schenker
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Solving a Logistical Nightmare: Imagining a Decentralized Identity Future at DB Schenker
IAM is hard enough without the additional complexities that logistics companies face. Warehouses need to be secure, but it’s difficult to find an identity solution that’s suitable for...
Enforcing Decentralized Authorization in a Multi-Platform API Landscape at Scale
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Enforcing Decentralized Authorization in a Multi-Platform API Landscape at Scale
Authorization (AuthZ) and Authentication (AuthN) go hand in hand in ensuring zero-trust in your system landscape. But while scaling identity can be done by centralizing it in an IAM solution,...
Verifiable Credentials and Dynamic NFTs – Two Sides of the Same Medal
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Verifiable Credentials and Dynamic NFTs – Two Sides of the Same Medal
NFTicket is a protocol, which combines the identification power of cryptographic wallets with those of Decentralized Identifiers (DID). We will present that there is functional equivalence of...
Fallacy of Decentralisation
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Fallacy of Decentralisation
Common Web3 narratives go like this: Web1 was decentralised. Web2 is centralised and dominated by GAFAM/BigTechs. Web3 will be decentralised. Is this real? Let us look back. Web1 was about...
How to Build Interoperable Decentralized Identity Systems with OpenID for Verifiable Credentials
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How to Build Interoperable Decentralized Identity Systems with OpenID for Verifiable Credentials
OpenID for Verifiable Credentials (OID4VC) is a set of protocols that enables issuance and presentation of verifiable credentials expressed in any format including but not limited to W3C...
Rethinking Educational Accreditation and Onboarding with Decentralized Identity
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Rethinking Educational Accreditation and Onboarding with Decentralized Identity
Skills not degrees are what matters in today's job market. Using SSI and OpenBadges standards, people can gain micro-certificates based on skills acquired during their studies, work, or...
Decentralized Identity: The Way Forward
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Decentralized Identity: The Way Forward
Decentralized Identity is enabling individuals and organizations to have control over their own personal data, providing self-sovereignty, privacy and security. But, is a relatively new concept...
Digital Identity (Wallet) in (International) Travel and Tourism
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Digital Identity (Wallet) in (International) Travel and Tourism
This panel discussion is addressing what is currently happening to make the travel and tourism ecosystem ready for the use of a digital identity that has the level of assurance to cross an...