Mamoon Yunus is visionary in API, cloud and XML-based technologies. As the founder of Forum Systems, Yunus pioneered API Security Gateways and Firewalls with the only granted patent for XML network appliances. For over 15 years, he has spearheaded award-winning API and XML security products. Yunus holds two graduate degrees in engineering from MIT and a BSME from Georgia Institute of Technology. Yunus enjoys playing squash and running computations on GPUs.
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Part 4
Trust is the glue that maintains social groups. From an evolutionary perspective, trust enables social animals to share their specialised skills for survival and well-being. With an ever-increasing body of knowledge, humans continue to specialise. This specialisation increases the necessity for an individual to belong to and interact with a large number of groups. Trust, ‘the shared interest and lack of malice’, becomes the key ingredient for individuals to perform efficiently in a large number of groups that form a vibrant society. Trust is pivotal for modern society. With the advent of the Internet, human interactions have moved from the physical world to the digital world.
Part 4
Identity is the most fundamental tenet of establishing digital trust. As a producer of digital assets, you have to know who is interested in using your assets. A passenger has to present a passport to an officer who verifies their identity before letting them board a plane. Similarly, in the digital world, a consumer of your digital assets or services has to provide digital identities such as a username and password, which the producer of the service has to verify before letting the consumer access the digital asset. In the era of legacy mainframe systems, the burden of managing identity was low given the closed nature of such systems.
