Prabath Siriwardena,
Director Security Architecture, WSO2
Connected Identity:
Benefits, Risks & Challenges
The global Internet
economy is
somewhere in the
neighborhood of
$10 trillion US dollars
By 2016, almost half
the world’s
population - about
3 billionpeople - will use the
internet
During 2008, the
number of things
connected to
Internet exceeded
the number of
people on earth
Over
12.5 billion devices were
connected to
the Internet in
2012
25 billion devices will be
connected to
the Internet by
2015
50 billion devices will be
connected to
the Internet by
2020
In U.S only, mergers
and acquisitions
volume totaled to
$865.1 billion in the
first nine months of
2013, according to
Dealogic
In Europe 58 percent
transact directly with
users from other
businesses and/or
consumers
In UK 65 percent
transact directly with
users from other
businesses and/or
consumers
By 2020, 60% of
all digital
identities
interacting with
enterprises will
come from
external IdPs