Learning Digital Identity: Design, Deploy, and Manage Identity Architectures (Paperback)

Why is it difficult for so many companies to get digital identity right? If you're still wrestling with even simple identity problems like modern website authentication, this practical book has the answers you need. Author Phil Windley provides conceptual frameworks to help you make sense of all the protocols, standards, and solutions available and includes suggestions for where and when you can apply them.

By linking current social login solutions to emerging self-sovereign identity issues, this book explains how digital identity works and gives you a firm grasp on what's coming and how you can take advantage of it to solve your most pressing identity problems. VPs and directors will learn how to more effectively leverage identity across their businesses.

This book helps you:

• Learn why functional online identity is still a difficult problem for most companies
• Understand the purpose of digital identity and why it's fundamental to your business strategy
• Learn why "rolling your own" digital identity infrastructure is a bad idea
• Differentiate between core ideas such as authentication and authorization
• Explore the properties of centralized, federated, and decentralized identity systems
• Determine the right authorization methods for your specific application
• Understand core concepts such as trust, risk, security, and privacy
• Learn how digital identity and self-sovereign identity can make a difference for you and your organization

為什麼許多公司在建立數位身分時遇到困難？如果你仍然在處理像是現代網站驗證這樣的簡單身分問題，這本實用的書將提供你所需的答案。作者Phil Windley提供了概念框架，幫助你理解所有可用的協議、標準和解決方案，並提供了何時何地應用它們的建議。

透過將現有的社交登入解決方案與新興的自主身分議題相連結，這本書解釋了數位身分的運作方式，讓你對即將到來的變革有深刻的理解，並且知道如何利用它來解決最迫切的身分問題。副總裁和主管將學習如何更有效地利用身分在他們的業務中。

這本書將幫助你：

- 了解為什麼對大多數公司來說，功能性的線上身分仍然是一個困難的問題
- 理解數位身分的目的，以及為什麼它對你的業務策略至關重要
- 瞭解為什麼「自行建立」數位身分基礎設施是一個不好的主意
- 區分核心概念，如驗證和授權
- 探索集中式、聯邦式和去中心化身分系統的特性
- 確定適合你特定應用程式的正確授權方法
- 理解信任、風險、安全和隱私等核心概念
- 瞭解數位身分和自主身分如何對你和你的組織產生影響