Federated Identity Management is an emerging paradigm that is rightly getting a lot of standardization and research attention. One aspect that is not receiving enough attention is assurance. Given the challenges enterprises faced trying to demonstrate appropriate control of their internal and monolithic identity management systems, the problem of how to provide assurance to multiple stakeholder...

Digital identities represent who we are when engaging in online activities and transactions. The rapid growth in the number of online services leads to an increasing number of different identities that each user needs to manage. As a result, many people feel overloaded with identities and suffer from password fatigue. This is a serious problem and makes people unable properly control and protec...

A substantial quantity of research has previously been conducted into the identification and application of measures related to the detection and prevention of identity theft and identity fraud. In the current security conscious environment, the concept of creating an artificial identity is generally met with both caution and suspicion. Much of the attention placed on the concept of identity fa...

We examine contextual identity, a notion that individuals reveal different aspects of themselves depending on context. At any given time, an individual may act as a friend, relative, spouse, co-worker, acquaintance, or stranger. We analyze contextual identity from the perspective of user choice and control, survey contextual identity violations, and propose new research directions to enable use...

Objective: This study was conducted to examine the relationships between dispositional mindfulness, temperament, personality traits, and identity styles and to determine the predictive power of dispositional mindfulness, temperament, personality traits in identity styles. Methods: 223 students (120 females and 103 males) from the universities in Tehran were selected as the sample. The data wer...