Offering services, conducting transactions and moving data on the Web opens new opportunities, but many CTOs and CIOs are more concerned with risk. This book details an important concept known as "identity management architecture" (IMA): a method to provide adequate protection while providing good access for people to critical information and systems. IMA is a set, coherent company-wide standards, policies, certifications and management activities that enable companies like you to manage digital identity effectively - not just as a security check, but as a way to expand services and determine customer needs. Author Phil Windley equate the IMA to good city planning. Cities define uses and design standards to ensure that buildings and city services are consistent and workable. With Windley experience as VP of product development for administration Excite@Home.com and CIO of Governor Michael Leavitt in Utah, he provides a view, rich in the real world concepts, issues, and technologies behind identity management architecture. How does digital identity increase business opportunity? This book is interesting shows CIOs, other IT professionals, product managers, and programmers how security planning can support business goals and opportunities, rather than hold them at bay.