Federated Identity Management

market-segment

Value Proposition

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• Liabilities - Stemming from service unavailability or security incidents.

• Two-sided market yielding dominant platforms - “Two–sided markets exhibit cross–side network effects: the value of the platform to one type of user depends on the number of users of the other type. This effect tends to yield very dominant platforms“ (Landau and Moore, 2012, p. 2).

• Assuring trust - Through identity proofing and authentication.

• Data privacy and data sharing - Both IdPs and SPs FIM actors collect valuable data related to their entities (e.g. IdP collects identity attributes and SP collects transactional data). Who collects, safeguards, and share shares what data with whom constitute both a data privacy legal liability and an economic tussle in FIM (Landau and Moore, 2012).

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