Identity Management

The electronic processing of across-the-board functions within and between business, administration and communities - within the field of eGovernment activities, for example - makes it necessary to clearly define the roles and legal positions of the parties participating in the process.

The identification, specifications and administration of the individual players and their virtual identities including their associated digitally imaged information must be processed. Questions about the roles of the users, providers, clients, citizens, employees and the entitlements that accompany the subsequent individual roles must be resolved. Intelligent solutions must be found for the individual and secure use of identity documents and for the field of access management. 

Today, both the user’s need for protection of their private data and the interests of official and commercial institutions can be taken into account using IUK technology’s service oriented approach. This begins with administering passwords and ends with the creation of trustworthy authorities that process applications and ensure privacy.

The challenge here also lies with the cross organisational management of identities – both from an organisational and a technical viewpoint.

At Fraunhofer FOKUS we develop solutions along with our partners that enable secure identity administration on all platforms. Through its competency in the interoperability of technologies and products in the fields of eGovernment, eBusiness, telecommunications and mobility, Fraunhofer FOKUS provides an excellent platform for the cooperative development and testing of innovative IT solutions in the field of identity management.

For this reason we opened the Secure eIdentity Lab in April 2008 together with the Bundesdruckerei (federal printing office).

CALL FOR PAPERS - Congress »Secure Identity« 2011

I am me – but how can I prove that? How to differentiate between original and plagiarism? Those and other questions will be answered in the course of the 3rd Congress Secure Identity on the 5th of April 2011 at the traid fair grounds Berlin. In both, the virtual and the real world, a definite and secure identity is essential in order to build up trustworthy business relations. The congress is organized by Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster Berlin-Brandenburg. Paper proposals can be send to congress2011@secure-identity.de until December 3rd 2010.

For further information about the Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster Secure Identity see: http://www.sichere-identitaet.de/en

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