Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are more accessible and reliable than their paper based alternatives and thus find widespread adoption. While a large number of commercial products is available, small- to mid-sized laboratories can often not afford the costs or are concerned about the longevity of the providers. Turning towards free alternatives, however, raises questions about data prote...

An efficient identity management system has become one of the fundamental requirements for ensuring safe, secure, and transparent use identifiable information attributes. Federated Identity Management (FIdM) allows users to distribute their across security domains which increases portability digital identities, it is considered a promising approach facilitate secure resource sharing among colla...

Digital identity is the ground necessary to guarantee that the Internet infrastructure is strong enough to meet basic expectations such as security and privacy. Anywhere anytime mobile computing is becoming true. In this ambient intelligent world, the choice of the identity management mechanisms will have a large impact on social, cultural, business and political aspects: privacy is a human nee...

Nowadays, many websites allow or require users to use their e-mail addresses either as identity or for other purposes. Although username-based identity problems resulting from users’ behaviours have been a research focus for quite some time, the serious issues of using e-mail address as identity and the associated online behaviours of users have not been well investigated. In this paper, we dis...

trust services, accountability, identity, B2B, e-commerce To be successful, e-commerce solutions need to properly address accountability issues. Accountability is fundamental to business, and identity is fundamental to accountability. This paper analyses the role identity services play in supporting business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. There are many good reasons for outsourcing identity mana...

For several decades, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has provided real-time risk assessment and management services via their easy easy-to-use, big data analytics solutions—building a reputation for precision, speed, and breadth over the years. Now a global organization headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, LexisNexis provides services and solutions such as identity management, risk scoring, fraud de...

Identity management has been recently considered to be a viable solution for simplifying user management across enterprise applications. When users interact with services on the Internet, they often tailor the services in some way for their personal use through their personalized accounts and preferences. The network identity of each user is the global set of such attributes constituting the va...

*Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected] 1Department of Computing, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Purpose: Cloud computing systems represent one of the most complex computing system...

Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationships among users and providers human and automated acting in many different capacities under interconnected and dynamic contexts. There is a pressing need for frameworks and models to support the analysis and design of ...