Identity in a Digital World: What It Is and How to Protect It

Supplying helpful guidelines for identity management, system procurement, and management, this book discusses how legal identity is formed, both thru history and emerging trends. It analyzes all of the ways that identity is represented through digital formats, as well as the use case scenarios for ecommerce, banking, authentication, and social networking. This book addresses a range of topics such as early introduction of identity, and early versus current forms to bind identity, national/government ID systems, corporate identity forms, digital identity in e-commerce, biometric representations of identity, and then incorporate benefits and risks in each of the various incantations of identity.