Digital identity is evolving quickly, and as consumers are presented with a greater variety of authentication methods, the competition to become the de facto identity provider among some of the world's biggest companies is heating up.
"Our vision for the Okta Identity Cloud is to become the authentication layer for every app, service, device and person, giving developers a better and more secure way to manage user access to whatever they are building," said McKinnon in a statement.
Our study shows the potential for a DNA barcoding technique to become a standard for the authentication of medicinal plants and their adulterants.
It's the kind of platform that makes Google poised to become a major player in identity authentication.
Which of these trends that eventually takes the lead to become the de facto form of authentication is yet to be seen.
For the ERCN to become feasible, security mechanisms have to be present to provide authentication, authorization, admission control and message integrity between all networking devices and applications.
Charles Francis, a senior analyst at Accenture says for now blockchains will remain private for the most part, but authentication will become increasingly important as we eventually have blockchain-to-blockchain communications.
But as ecosystems start to grow and thousands and millions of sensors and gadgets enter the fray, authentication can become a bottleneck, especially if the network loses internet connection for any amount of time.
Thus, the integration and interoperability issues of different authentication protocols become new challenges [2 13].
