Identity and information sharing in critical infrastructure
What is secure digital identity and why is it the key element to secure information sharing in critical infrastructure? How to use identity to easily eliminate 80% of cyberattacks with high ROI? What role does identity play in modern Zero-trust architecture? We will try to answer these complex questions in 7 minutes.
For a long time on the internet, it held true that nobody knows who you are—and therefore every piece of information is born without trust. Today, however, the authenticity of content is often more important than the content itself. The key is a secure digital identity that ties a person or a machine to cryptographic keys, not to passwords. The internet was created without built-in identity, and the early protocols did not account for strong cryptography. That’s why an approach prevailed in which “content was king” and its origin or authenticity stood aside. The consequence is clear: information on the network is implicitly untrustworthy until someone credibly signs it. A secure digital identity therefore means binding a physical identity to a private key that can sign or encrypt content—unlike passwords, which are merely shared secrets and over which people often have little control.Why authenticity is more important than content
