Blockchain is a reaction to real security and privacy concerns. Whether or not you choose to adopt any blockchain solution, these concerns do exist and should be addressed in the way you manage enterprise Identity and Access Management. This is session is for those who want to know what components to consider when implementing a blockchain ID system, and for those who wouldn’t touch blockchain with a 10-foot stick but still value the insights that come from a different identity paradigm.
Modeled from KuppingerCole’s Blockchain ID Buyer’s Compass, this session identifies the use cases most applicable to Blockchain ID, the functional components to look for in a solution, technical and organizational prerequisites, and key questions to ask a Blockchain ID vendor.
In this talk Andy will describe the three core capabilities that are required for self-sovereign identity, what they do, why they are important, and how they interrelate. But it's about more than just identity. Once these capabilities are in place, identity becomes just one use case out of thousands. The digital world will be transformed through a new wave of innovation being termed "Trust over IP" which is based on the technology created to support SSI.
