Evaluating the severity of trust to Identity-Management-as-a-Service
Mpofu, Nkosinathi Van Staden, Wynand J. C.
Mpofu, Nkosinathi
Van Staden, Wynand J. C.
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The benefits of a c loud service have been well documented as reduced cost in both staff and computing infrastructure, rapid deployment, and scalabilit y and location independence. Despite all these benefits, Identity-management-as- a-Service's (IdMaaS) is struggling to gain a market presence due to an array of factors one of which is trust. In IdMaaS, trust may either be borne within the relationships amongst the actors (relying party, identity manager, identity owner, or end user) or may be actor specific. This paper will focus on trust between the identity owner and the identi ty manager within the context of third party identity management. A great effort in identifying trust issues by other researchers is acknowledged, however they did not go to the ext ent of measuring th e severity of t rust specifically related to I dMaaS. Our research shows that availability of the identity management system and security of identities are more critical concerns when compared to the cost of managing identities and fear of vendor lock-in. Above all, the research revealed that trust in IdMaaS is less than 40% at a 95% level of con fidence. Establishing the severity of tru st and its trusting factors is a more valuable input to the refinement of the IdMaaS approach. The success of IdMaaS will add to the domain of anything-as-a-service (XaaS) at the same time opening up an additional entrepreneurial avenue.
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Mpofu, N., & Van Staden, Wynand J. C. (2018). Evaluating the severity of trust to Identity- Management-as-a-Service. In 2017 Information Security for South Africa (ISSA). IEEE.
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10.1109/issa.2017.8251778
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