Authors:
Bernd Zwattendorfer
;
Thomas Zefferer
and
Klaus Stranacher
Affiliation:
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Keyword(s):
Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Identity Management-Model, Identity Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Access Control
;
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
e-Business
;
e-Business and e-Commerce
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Government
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Technology
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Unique identification and secure authentication are essential processes in various areas of application, e.g.
in e-Government, e-Health, or e-Business. During the past years several identity management-systems and
models have evolved. Many organizations and enterprises or even countries for their national eID solutions
rely on identity management-systems for securing their applications. Since more and more applications are
migrated into the cloud, secure identification and authentication are also vital in the cloud domain. However,
cloud identity management-systems need to meet slightly different requirements than traditional identity
management-systems and thus cannot be clustered into the same model types or categories. Therefore, in this
paper we give an overview of different cloud identity management-models that have already emerged up to
now. We further compare these models based on selected criteria, e.g. on practicability and privacy aspects.