Summary

This chapter covered the historical sources of authority that are used to validate identities, including government-issued documents, educational institutions, utility corporations, community and social networks, and individual knowledge. It underlined the significance of restricting access to various sources to preserve confidentiality, privacy, and accuracy in the identity verification process. This chapter also discussed the benefits of utilizing ACLs to secure data sources and recommended best practices for maintaining ACLs. It also discussed problems and mitigation measures for data accuracy, privacy, security risks, and data aggregation concerns in historical authoritative sources. Finally, it proposed a balanced strategy that blends historical data sources with contemporary verification approaches to create a safe and dependable identity verification environment.

In the next chapter, we’ll look at the relationship between trust and risk as it relates to managing...