How to enable the Enterprise to move from existing centralized or federated identity access management systems to a decentralized model was the topic in the 15th Vienna Digital Identity Meetup*.  In both the private and public sector the capital investments in IAMs runs into the billions of dollars, for decentralized identity models to make serious inroads in this sector providing a of roadmap or transition journey that both educates and enables the enterprise to make the move is required.

In our 15th event we discussed the routes  being taken by Raonsecure and IdRamp.  Both Raonsecure and IdRamp are being successful in making the introduction of  decentralized identity concepts to the market and helping their customers start on this transition journey.

Alex David (Senior Manager, Raonsecure) started with brief update on the forces driving decentralized identifiers in the Korean market and then presented Raonsecure’s Omnione product.  In keeping with the theme on the ‘bridging’ to bring DIDs and VCs into the market Alex went through six different pilots,  and proof of concept solutions that Omnione has implemented in the Korean market.  These include working with the Korean Military Manpower Association on DID based authentication and issuing of verifiable credentials (VCs) to Korean veterans to the use of DIDs for driverless car identification in an autonomous vehicle pilot in Sejong, Korea.

Mike Vesey (CEO, IdRamp) introduced IdRamp and discussed their core objective of bringing DIDs and VCs into the enterprise market by creating a ’non-frightening’ educational path to adoption of decentralized identity.  IdRamp is a session based transactional gateway (no logging) to all things identity, providing common service delivery and compliance and consent management across identity platforms.  They are not an identity service provider but resemble more closely as a digital notary in the generation of decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials.  The service integration capability of IdRamp was demonstrated with the use of employee issued verifiable credentials to authenticate to a enterprise service (in this case a Zoom session login).  

Finally, the seed of an upcoming event was planted.  As with any new technology market breaking through the ’noise’ of everyday life is very difficult.  This is no different for DIDs and VCs.  You will have to watch the recording to get the topic…. 

For a recording of the event please check out the link: https://vimeo.com/472937478

Time markers:

• 0:00:00 - Introduction

• 0:05:04 - State of DIDs in South Korea

• 0:13:29 - Introducing Omnione

• 0:24:00 - DIDs and VCs in action in South Korea

• 0:51:18 - Introduction to IdRamp

• 1:04:00 - Interactive demo on IdRamp

• 1:08:00 - Wallets and compatibility

• 1:11:00 - Service integration demo & discussion

• 1:31:57 - Upcoming events

For more information on Raonsecure Omnione: https://omnione.net/en/main

For more information on IdRamp: https://idramp.com/

And as a reminder, due to increased COVID-19 infections we are back to online only events. Hopefully we will be back to in person and online soon!

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*Vienna Digital Identity Meetup is hosted by The Dingle Group and is focused on educating business, societal, legal and technologists on the value that a high assurance digital identity creates by reducing risk and strengthening provenance. We meet on the 4th Monday of every month, in person (when permitted) in Vienna and online on Zoom. Connecting and educating across borders and oceans.