Identity management lifecycle - Exemplifying the need for holistic identity assurance frameworks

Abstract

Many governments around the world have a strategy to make electronic communication the primacy choice for interaction between the citizens and public services. Identity management makes the foundation for secure and trusted communication, and government frameworks for authentication and identity assurance are therefore developed to support the strategies. This paper examines three existing authentication and identity assurance frameworks, and is a good example to show the importance of specifying assurance frameworks that takes a holistic view of the identity management lifecycle and related threats. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.