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Your Identity: "Costanza Style"

Your identity, like an overcrowded wallet, is ready to burst. David Miller, chief security officer for Covisint, tells us how to solve the problem

By David Miller, CSO, Covisint

The Next Identity Model works much the same way. It is the only sensible answer to slaying the identity dragon and preventing Costanza-like problems within your own identity wallet. In this brave, new world, your identity will follow you and not be inherently linked to whatever specific transaction youâ¬"re performing at the moment.

The benefits of this will be plentiful. It will be simple, flexible and easy-to-use, and you will control your identity; not all of the companies with which you do business. Of course, you likely will be subjected to small, monthly fee and businesses will be charged a small percentage of the transaction, for example, but isn't that much better than the current and onerous system?

Change is coming. Listen to "Your Inner Jerry." When it's all said and done, identity really will be a "problem about nothing." The Next Identity Model promises to be an "Identity Festivus for the rest of us."

Yada, yada, yada.

David Miller is Chief Security Officer for Covisint, where he is responsible for internal and external system architecture security issues for e-business exchange. In addition, Miller directs the identity management offering at Covisint, which currently secures access for automotive, healthcare and government customers.

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