This week was the EMEA IRM Summit over in Dublin and whilst the Guinness was flowing there were a few things ticking over in my mind, especially after some of the great Internet of Things related talks and demo's we had. The 'R' in Identity Relationship Management, is often now referring to the relationships between people and the things they either own, share or have access to: the IoT explosion. People to people relationships are still a massive underpinning in the IoT world and the real person behind machine and device interaction is still a priority. However, how can we start handling authentication and authorization services for devices? I think there are several key high level points: Identity Registration - the simple case of a person providing attribute values to a store. The basic self-service form, or perhaps social media registration service. A web service ultimately gets to know about a 'real' person. Nothing too knew here. Device Registration -
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