The Digital Identity Event Horizon
Despite years of information security innovation, user safety continues to decay and digital systems remain vulnerable. The reason: most attacks exploit a flawed first principle of digital identity, built on entrenched assumptions about presentation, authentication, enforcement, and trust. As societies digitize and digital identity becomes the endpoint for all contact between citizens, institutions, and infrastructure, this collective failure to imagine new designs will shatter how we cultivate social trust. How else can this state of affairs, where no single attribute of a person can escape the reach of bad actors, be brought to an end?
Drawing on unprecedented access to individuals across the digital identity landscape and organisations developing the next wave of identity solutions, The Digital Identity Event Horizon presents New Design Congress' analysis of the core emerging socio-technical threats inherent in all digital identity systems, and lays the case for why proposed solutions will not address these threats without radical rethinking.