About identification management
Effective identification management helps organisations to reduce and/or prevent fraud, loss of privacy and identity theft by applying good practice processes during the enrolment of an entity, on-going interactions and use of credentials.
The identification management elements
Diagram 1: Relationship between the identification management elements
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This diagram shows a triangle representing the connection between Entities, Relying Party’s, Credentials and Credential Providers.
At the top of the triangle is an Entity (in this example a person). At the lower left of the triangle is a Relying Party (in this example a building representing an organisation). At the lower right of the triangle is a Credential Provider (in this example a different building representing an organisation).
At the centre of the triangle is a Credential (in this example represented by a mobile device and an access card).
The connection between Entity and Relying Party is labelled Enrolment. The connection between Entity and Credential Provider is labelled Credential Management. The connection between Relying Party and Credential Provider is labelled Facilitation.
Descriptions of the elements and their relationships
Relying party becoming a Credential Provider
A Relying Party (or organisation) can become a Credential Provider when they have completed an enrolment process and decide to establish a credential that will be relied upon by other Relying Parties in the future. For example, a passport, practicing licence, or staff access card.
Identification management and other practices
Identity management
Identity and identity management tend to focus on attributes and their management rather than the wider processes and human behaviours essential to prevent identity theft and the impacts of this. The material in this website takes a different approach to the area, to solve many of the problems that have been hampering effective development of solutions.
Privacy and security
Identification management is a practice that is separate from, but closely related to Privacy and Security. While several requirements within the Identification Management Standards contribute to information privacy and security, they do not replace the need to apply relevant standards within these separate practices.
Diagram 2: Relationship between practices
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