#DefragCon 2013 Notes: The Identity Manifesto: Seven Points On The Future of Identity – R Ray Wang

The Identity Manifesto: Seven Points On The Future of Identity – R Ray Wang, Constellation Research

• Change Ahead
  • 1) Macro economic forces – we can’t change this
  • 2) Dynamic work force – not everything is done within the walls of the organization
  • 3) New business models – we are selling experiences and outcomes now
  • 4) Disruptive tech adoption
  • Political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal are also part of the convergence
• Five pillars of digital business converge
  • Mobile – devices everywhere, location-aware
  • Social – pervasive and contextual
  • Cloud – compute power
  • Big Data – how we add intelligence to the system
  • Video – communication
• The Identity Manifesto – 7 points on the future of identity:
• 1. B2B and B2C are dead. It’s a P2P (people-to-people) and M2M (machine-to-machine) world
• 2. Users only care about the identity they use, not the one you want them to use
  • This is why we have so many logins
• 3. Identity must move from geek to chic
  • What the users want (simple, seamless, situtational, self-governed) is not what the security gurus are focused on providing today but are important (safe, secure, standards, scalable)
• 4. Identity must always be in context or else (how, where, when, sentiment) and will drive future use cases
• 5. Disruptive business requires on identity
  • Proactive maintenance – devices need identity
  • Augmented reality
  • Matrix Commerce – a buyer centric world driven by mobile
  • Video: Corning Glass (and how identity is required for people and devices)
• 6. Privacy isn’t dead. It’ll be redefined by identity
• 7. New players battle to orchestrate, manage, and own your identity
  • Commerce vendors, financial services, governments, hardware companies, social networks, software companies, telecom concerns
  • This battle will be going on for the next 3-5 years
  • You are either the network, the content, or the arms dealer
  • Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are the only companies able to go from cloud to mobile devices
• Trust and transparency will drive your choice of trusted agents and brokers
• A recent article from R Ray Wang: “Beware Trading Privacy for Convenience”