I am surprised about some of their statements on this poster as it is not how I would think to describe them.
1)
I don’t consider one’s username/passcode/PIN as an identity attribute and I doubt that anyone in the identity space would list those things off if they were asked
to cite examples of identity attributes. Person’s Name, phone numbers, SSN, DL #’s are what we typically think of when asked to list personal identity attributes.
2)
I have consistently observed the definition around an authenticator to be “something you have, know or are”. In fact, a recent episode of Jeopardy had the following
question so this seems to be a topic that is somewhat understood by the layperson:
I have never heard “something you do” listed in this definition. Unless the author means a biometric along the line of signature
cadence or heartbeat rhythm. I guess those could be considered “something you do”. But they should fall under the “something you are” category. I can’t imagine they mean one’s job as “something you are”. It’s not clear and I would challenge the inclusion
of this bullet point in that list.
3)
The poster also states that an identity ecosystem “assigns level of risk and value” – I assume they are referencing NIST IR 8112 around Identity Metadata?
4)
One other point – the term
Identity Ecosystem is one that the IDESG has already “snagged”. “an Identity Ecosystem – where individuals, businesses and other organizations enjoy greater trust and security as they conduct sensitive transactions online. The Identity Ecosystem
is a user-centric online environment – a set of technologies, policies and agreed upon standards that securely supports transactions ranging from anonymous to fully-authenticated and from low to high value.”
https://www.idesg.org/The-ID-Ecosystem/Overview
The poster should either align with that definition or perhaps come up with their own term if they are wanting to describe something
else. I will make sure that that folks I work with the IDESG are aware that University of TX @ Austin is also using this term. Not sure if it has been trademarked or anything but I could cause confusion if used to mean different things.
I think I maybe have a few dozen Twitter followers so my posting a rebuttal won’t go very far – but I would be interested in hearing
a response from the faculty if you want to forward them this email.
Catherine Schulten
Direct: 954-290-1991
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Subject: [DG-IDPro] IdM Poster. (thats wrong)
HI ID Pro's
As those of you know who attended the ID-Pro breakfast at RSA.. I'm in the new Masters of Science in Identity Management and Security at UT Austin.
There have been some challenges in what has been taught... including that the factors of authentication are not that...but "identifying Information" or as in the poster below says "Identity Attributes"
They also have taught that password are identifiers (yes this was actually taught)... in this poster on the other side they are identity attributes..yes identity attributes. Sigh. I have raised issues about these two things that have been
taught...and well not gotten very far. (besides being told i'm a "bad student" and "unwilling to learn".
But now they have this fabulous poster. I'm hoping some of you with blogs or twitter handles can point at the poster - references it and explain why both things are wrong. (cause they, specifically Dr. Barber and Dr. Doty don't believe
me.
Or maybe this group could write a joint letter explaining its 'wrongness" it snot great that this center is putting out this information...it doesn't help us in the long run get explaining this stuff right.
Here is the post on their site with the poster.
Here is Dr Barbers faculty page - http://www.ece.utexas.edu//people/faculty/suzanne-barber
Dr. Doty's
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/person_details?PersonID=22