Managing Identity Across the Internet of Things
What is connected identity?Assigning unique identifiers to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and enabling them to connect and communicate with other entities over
the Internet
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Drawbacks of exposing identity silos via APIs
● Causes friction in a connected business
● Less accessible and reactive
● Provisioning a service provider or identity provider is costly
● Building point-to-point trust relationships between service providers and identity providers is not scalable
Advantages of identity broker/bus pattern
● Frictionless removal of existing service providers
● Frictionless introduction of a new service provider
● Easy enforcing of new authentication protocols
● Ability to perform claim transformations, role mapping and just-in-time provisioning
● Centralized monitoring, auditing and access control
● Easy introduction of a new federation protocol
The WSO2 AdvantageWSO2 Identity Server together with our products enables you to
build a common, connected identity platform in a protocol agnostic manner
Capabilities include the following:● Federation, transport and authentication protocol agnostic● Claim transformation● Home realm discovery● Multi-option and multi-step authentication● Adaptive authentication● Identity mapping● Multiple attribute stores● Just-in-time provisioning● Manage identity relationships● Trust brokering● Centralized access control and monitoring
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Connected Identity: Benefits, Risks and Challenges