Security News > 2022 > March > Does the future of digital identity offer us greater security and convenient experiences?

Much of the promise associated with future digital identity infrastructures is associated with greater automation of the identity lifecycle and the provision of greater control of personal data to end-users.

New approaches to digital identity aim to provide more autonomy to end-users and to enforce a separation of concerns between the organization that initially verifies an identity and organizations that rely upon the trustworthiness of that identity.

With the user playing a privileged role to control the disclosure of personal data, user-centric identity has become a de facto paradigm for future identity infrastructures.

Future identity technologies must increase efforts to reduce the threat of synthetic identity, impersonation fraud and improve the usability and security of user authentication.

Organizations based in countries with no national identity infrastructure face the systemic risk of synthetic identity since the task of determining if an identity is real is based upon probability.

While there are mitigations to this risk, a future digital identity scheme can create a culture where verifiable identity information such as W3C verifiable credentials - the usage of which is subject to local authentication on a device - can over time reduce the need to conduct "From scratch" identity proofing.

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