Book Review: Digital Identity by Phil Windley: Publisher- O’Reilly

Book Review:  Digital Identity by Phil Windley: Publisher- O’Reilly: ISBN: 0-596-00878-3

Phil was CTO for Utah state of USA and implemented Identity Management Systems there. During the course of book he reveals his learning which should be useful any big decentralized enterprise.

Book consists of twenty chapters spanning from introduction of Identity Management to various concepts of Identity Management is sufficient depth. The best part of book is that it does not lean to any vendor specific solution and provides conceptual level understanding of Identity Management.

Book is nearly 5 year old, so does not provides information about latest developments in Identity Management like OpenID, CardSpace etc but concepts outlined still hold good.

I recommend this book to get high level understanding of Identity Management.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.

Further reading:

One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Author’s website: http://www.windley.com
2. Book’s web presence http://apidesign.org
3. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Identity-Phillip-Windley/dp/B002AWX8B4
4. Publisher – O’Reilly http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596008789
5. Wikipedia on Identity Management: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management
6. Book at FlipKart: http://www.flipkart.com/digital-identity-phil-windley-book-0596008783

7.      Identity Management white paper by  Skip Slone & The Open Group Identity Management Work Area

8. Novell Identity Manager: http://www.novell.com/products/identitymanager/
9. Windows Identity Foundation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa570351.aspx
10. Oracle Identity Management: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/id-mgmt/overview/index.html