Ghosts in the Machine: The New Age of Identity is a gripping exploration of how digital identity, once a simple username and password, has become the most contested frontier of modern civilization. Joseph F. Miceli Jr.—a veteran identity strategist and originator of the IAM 3.0 framework—guides readers through the collapse of the old fortress model of cybersecurity and the birth of a new era where humans and machines coexist in a shared web of trust, risk, and autonomy.
Across twenty-five incisive chapters, Miceli dissects the global identity crisis: from remote verification and biometrics to AI-driven fraud, compliance labyrinths, and the rise of non-human identities. He shows how artificial intelligence, decentralized credentials, and continuous trust models are reshaping what it means to prove who—or what—you are. This is not theory; it's a front-row view of the technological and philosophical shift redefining security, privacy, and power itself.
Written with clarity, precision, and a poet's sense of consequence, Ghosts in the Machine challenges executives, technologists, and policymakers alike to confront the truth: IAM 2.0 is dead. Survival in the digital world now depends on embracing IAM 3.0—an intelligent, adaptive, orchestrated architecture of trust where every identity, human or otherwise, matters.
This is the field manual for the next decade of identity. Ignore it, and risk becoming one of the ghosts.
Ghosts in the Machine: The New Age of Identity is a gripping exploration of how digital identity, once a simple username and password, has become the most contested frontier of modern civilization. Joseph F. Miceli Jr.—a veteran identity strategist and originator of the IAM 3.0 framework—guides readers through the collapse of the old fortress model of cybersecurity and the birth of a new era where humans and machines coexist in a shared web of trust, risk, and autonomy.
Across twenty-five incisive chapters, Miceli dissects the global identity crisis: from remote verification and biometrics to AI-driven fraud, compliance labyrinths, and the rise of non-human identities. He shows how artificial intelligence, decentralized credentials, and continuous trust models are reshaping what it means to prove who—or what—you are. This is not theory; it's a front-row view of the technological and philosophical shift redefining security, privacy, and power itself.
Written with clarity, precision, and a poet's sense of consequence, Ghosts in the Machine challenges executives, technologists, and policymakers alike to confront the truth: IAM 2.0 is dead. Survival in the digital world now depends on embracing IAM 3.0—an intelligent, adaptive, orchestrated architecture of trust where every identity, human or otherwise, matters.
This is the field manual for the next decade of identity. Ignore it, and risk becoming one of the ghosts.
Ghosts In The Machine
Ghosts In The Machine
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940181895294 |
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| Publisher: | CYBICUS PUBLISHING |
| Publication date: | 10/17/2025 |
| Sold by: | Draft2Digital |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 596 KB |