Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

What is digital identity?

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Digital identity can be different things to different people. At the 2010 RSA Conference industry executives gave their definitions of what digital identity is and some of the challenges that exist when it comes to putting a digital ID system in place.

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