Blockchain ID & Self-Sovereign Identity

Frontier Talk #6 | Bringing User-Centricity to Decentralized Identity - Nat Sakimura

Raj Hegde sits with identity veteran, Nat Sakimura - Chairman of OpenID Foundation to understand how user-centric learnings from existing authentication protocols can be applied to future identity initiatives. Tune in to this episode to explore ways to navigate tradeoffs between privacy…

Frontier Talk #5 | Peter Busch: Enabling the Machine Economy and Decentralized Internet of Things

Raj Hegde sits down with Peter Busch, DLT Product Owner at Bosch , to discuss how decentralization is enabling a wide range of exciting use cases across industries. Tune in to this episode to explore the concept of machine economy, understand the needs of machines and dive deep into the…

EIC Speaker Spotlight: Doc Searls on Decentralized Identity

Doc Searls, Co-founder and board member of Customer Commons, and Director of ProjectVRM, is to deliver a keynote entitled Where Stands the Sovereign Self? at the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2021. To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Doc some questions about his…

Frontier Talk #4 | Doc Searls - Building the Future of Identity

"Progress is the process by which the miraculous becomes mundane.” says Doc Searls, the next guest on our popular podcast series - Frontier Talk. In this episode, Raj Hegde sits down with one of the most prolific technology thinkers of our generation to understand the problems of the…

EIC Speaker Spotlight: Michele Nati on Decentralized Identity

Michele Nati, Head of Telco and Infrastructure Development at the IOTA Foundation, will participate in panels on Decentralized Identity and Self-Sovereign Identity at the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2021. To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Michele some…

Blueprint for a Digital Health Pass

The Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint was released mid-June to help shape the development of a cohesive but decentralized method of issuing, holding, and verifying the results of a COVID status test. The Good Health Pass Collaborative (GHPC) is an open and publicly funded…

Frontier Talk #3 | Dr. Carsten Stöcker - Decentralizing Provenance in an Industry 4.0 World

In this episode, Raj Hegde sits down with Dr. Carsten Stöcker, Founder & CEO of Spherity to understand how #decentralized identity is transforming the end-to-end supply chain lifecycle. Tune in to this episode to explore the increasingly important role of provenance in helping…

Frontier Talk #2 | Frances Zelazny - Decentralized Biometrics and Next-Generation Authentication

Raj Hegde sits down with Frances Zelazny, Co-founder & CEO of Anonybit, to understand the novel concept of decentralized biometrics. Tune in to this exciting episode for a deep dive on biometrics, explore the relevance of decentralized biometrics as an alternative to centralized…

Azure AD Verifiable Credentials Entering Public Preview

Microsoft announced on April 5, 2020 that its Azure AD Verifiable Credentials is now in public preview. This solution enables organizations to design and issue verifiable credentials to their users, be it enterprises issuing employment credentials to their employees, universities enrolling…

Frontier Talk #1 | Dr. Harry Behrens - Decentralizing Mobility, Coopetition and Platforms

Raj Hegde sits down with Dr. Harry Behrens, Head of Blockchain Factory at Daimler Mobility, to discuss how decentralization is transforming the fragmented mobility industry. Tune in to this exciting episode for a deep dive on decentralized identity, explore the rise of the platform economy…

Feb 03, 2021: Unlocking Decentralized Identity: A Playbook for Your Enterprise

This KCLive Event on Decentralized Identity goes beyond the hype of blockchain and offers IT leaders an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding.

Adrian Doerk: Bringing Self-Sovereign Identity Into Practice: Lessons Learned from Lissi and the SSI for Germany Consortia

In the future, you will not only decide where your data is stored, but also with whom you want to share your data. If you share data, everything will be logged for you and you will always have an overview of who has received data from you. This is what transparency…

Joy Chik: Making Digital Privacy Real

Digital privacy is a central concern for pretty much everyone. But what does ‘privacy’ really mean? How do you get it and what does it cost you? The identity community has been hard at work on a new identity model that gives people a path to take control of their online…

TJ Behe: Beyond Blockchain: Creating Value from Compliant Self-Sovereign Identity

Enterprise wants to focus on the value identity can bring beyond verified access. Whilst reducing identity management compliance risk and storage costs, more organizations are giving customers their identity ownership back. They are using intelligent agents, real-time data updates…

Will Abramson: Solving Problems with SSI

An overview of a number of problem-driven use cases for SSI technology, focusing on a number of different domains; healthcare, distributed machine learning and education. A recap of research undertaken at the Blockpass Identity Lab over the last year.

Markus Sabadello: U.S. Permanent Resident Cards with SSI

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has supported Self-Sovereign Identity technologies such as Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials for several years. Now, a number of companies have been selected to work with DHS on implementing digital versions of…

Interview with Dr. Andre Kudra

Prof. Dr. David Chadwick: COVID-19 Certificates for Everyone

Working with the NHS, we are connecting our verifiable credentials infrastructure to its COVID-19 tests database so that we will be able to issue COVID-19 verifiable credentials to people in real time. Our unique design provides selective disclosure and conformance to GDPR for both the…

Anne Bailey: Reimagining Identity: a Buyer’s Guide to Decentralized Identity

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 session is for those who want to know…

Analyst Chat #37: COVID Response and Decentralized Identity Solutions/Verifiable Credentials

Anne Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth discuss how decentralized identities and verifiable credentials help respond to the pandemic by powering contact tracing applications, immunity passports and other important use cases.

Decentralized Identity Could Become a Reality, but Blockchain May Not Be a Part of It

Decentralized Identity is a concept that may not be mainstream yet, but it is a term that embodies the sentiment that many individuals feel regarding the control they wish they had over their personal data. The public has become increasingly more vocal about the misuse of their data, and…

Leadership Brief: What to Consider When Evaluating Decentralized Identity? - 80451

Decentralized identity solutions that meet a range of enterprise use cases are on the market. Being a discerning consumer means knowing the right questions to ask. This Leadership Brief guides you through the critical aspects of decentralized identity solutions that are relevant to…

Market Compass: Decentralized Identity: Blockchain ID & Self-Sovereign Identity Solutions - 80064

The KuppingerCole Market Compass provides an overview of product or service offerings in a certain market segment.  This Market Compass covers decentralized identity, specifically Blockchain Identity and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) solutions. This is a very dynamic space filled with…

Executive View: Sovrin Network Self-Sovereign Identity - 80112

Expectations are changing for Identity and Access Management. Users demand control over their personal information, and enterprises need to fundamentally rethink their relationship to personal customer data in the wake of GDPR and CCPA. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) from the Sovrin Network…

Leadership Brief: Distributed Decentralized AI: Create, Share, Scale, Monetize - 80272

Using artificial intelligence services in combination can offer heightened results, whether it be in accuracy, robustness, customization, or geographical spread. Distributed, decentralized AI is a dynamic research space that is rapidly producing enterprise solutions. However, there are a…

Decentralized Identity - 80050

Blockchain identity solutions are developing into a viable segment in IAM. Because the market segment is still very heterogeneous and gaining maturity, selecting a vendor to provide blockchain ID solutions should be done with care. This KuppingerCole Buyer’s Compass will equip you…

Executive View: IBM Decentralized Identity - 80099

The IBM Decentralized Identityplatform is both an enterprise solution for individual companies and the foundation of a global decentralized identity ecosystem. IBM’s decentralized identity solution has prioritized interoperable protocols rooted in Hyperledger Indy and Aries to provide…

Blockchain: It’s not About Technology, It Is About Use Cases

Today, the German Federal Government announced its Blockchain Strategy. What might sound as a great thing, falls short, for a number of reasons. One is that it is late: after the first hype and somewhere in the phase of disillusion. This should have happened much earlier, specifically with…

Leadership Brief: Blockchain ID & Self Sovereign Identity - 80105

As the hype around Blockchain is slowing down, the market is moving into a phase of maturity, focusing on business cases where Blockchain technology delivers concrete value, in combination with other types of technologies. Blockchain ID and the related concept of Self Sovereign Identity…

Blockchain Just a Hype?

Blockchain - Just a Hype?

Maximilian Möhring - Die Zukunft Digitaler ID ist Dezentral – Aber Nicht Blockchain

Die Identitätslandschaft ist voll von IAM-Systemen, Identifikations- und Authentifizierungsanbietern, verschiedenen Technologiestandards und wird durch nationale sowie branchenspezifische Normen geregelt. Die Lösung für dieses Problem ist die Interoperabilität der…

Blockchain ID for the Enterprise: A Single ID? A Good Complement? Or Irrelevant?

Blockchain and the underlying concept of “Distributed Ledger Technologies” (DLT) have well passed the peak of initial hype. As always, focus is now shifting to real-world applications that allow companies to improve their business. It is less about cryptocurrencies and concepts with a…

Nov 22, 2018: Blockchain ID for the Enterprise: A Single ID? A Good Complement? Or Irrelevant?

Blockchain and the underlying concept of “Distributed Ledger Technologies” (DLT) have well passed the peak of initial hype. As always, focus is now shifting to real-world applications that allow companies to improve their business. It is less about cryptocurrencies and concepts with a global…