Governments around the world face challenges in implementing electronic identity solutions that are open and transparent, security-compliant, cross organizational and civil domains, and address the handling and disclosure of personal information. Yet electronic identity can be a primary enabler to moving high-value eGovernment services online in order to reduce the costs of service delivery.
Microsoft can help you address these challenges with identity management solutions, which make citizens, identity provider, and service provider functions relatively independent, interacting through open standards and interfaces. These solutions provide appropriate user control and the right level of disclosure of personal information based upon a unique context. They enable predictable and consistent user experience across boundaries, while offering flexibility and openness toward future identity management solutions.
Identity management solutions from Microsoft provide you with:
Efficient and secure delivery of e-services
- Secure e-IDs enable eGovernment services delivery, while reducing cost and fraud.
- Multiple authentication methods and security levels limit access to those who need it.
- Minimal identity disclosure provides user privacy.
Seamless user experience across boundaries
- Identity federation across agencies, including cloud-based or hosted services.
- Single sign on (SSO) experience across borders, platforms, and authentication methods.
- Federated access rights and documents posted on extranets.
Simplified management
- Central management of access to applications and data, regardless of ICT location.
- Authentication and access as shared services, independent from applications.
- Lowest possible entry barrier for users.
Application development efficiency
- Open interfaces between the e-ID infrastructure and the consuming applications or cloud services.
- Authentication and authorization externalised by developers.
- Faster, nimbler development of services.
