This slide deck will introduce the notion of connected identity and explore the advantages of adopting an identity bus patterns using the WSO2 Identity Server and other WSO2 products.

1. Managing Identity Across the
Internet of Things

2. What is connected identity?
Assigning unique identifiers to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and enabling
them to connect and communicate with other entities over the Internet
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3. Drawbacks of exposing identity silos
via APIs
● Causes friction in a connected business
● Less accessible and reactive
● Provisioning a service provider or identity provider is costly
● Building point-to-point trust relationships between service providers and
identity providers is not scalable

4. Advantages of identity broker/bus
pattern
● Frictionless removal of existing service providers
● Frictionless introduction of a new service provider
● Easy enforcing of new authentication protocols
● Ability to perform claim transformations, role mapping and just-in-time
provisioning
● Centralized monitoring, auditing and access control
● Easy introduction of a new federation protocol

5. The WSO2 Advantage
WSO2 Identity Server together with our products enables you to build a
common, connected identity platform in a protocol agnostic manner
Capabilities include the following:
● Federation, transport and authentication protocol agnostic
● Claim transformation
● Home realm discovery
● Multi-option and multi-step authentication
● Adaptive authentication
● Identity mapping
● Multiple attribute stores
● Just-in-time provisioning
● Manage identity relationships
● Trust brokering
● Centralized access control and monitoring

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Connected Identity: Benefits, Risks and Challenges