Please describe your proposed solution
A. What is the solution
- Novel Real-World Application: Klüh pilots Cardano blockchain for global identity and access management, reducing costs, enhancing customer experience, and minimizing fraud for employees, visitors, and partners
- Cost Efficiency: Utilizes smartphones and biometric technology, significantly lowering expenses compared to traditional systems involving keys, NFC cards and scanner
- Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity: Empowers users by giving them control over their digital identities, contrasting with centralized identity model
- Enhanced Security: Biometric data, such as facial recognition, cannot be transferred or lost like traditional keys, reducing fraud and unauthorized access
- Lost Key Solution: Biometric authentication eliminates the risk of lost physical access token
- Regulatory Compliance and Auditing: Streamlines compliance with stringent regulatory requirements and provides detailed audit trails for sensitive sector
- User Lifecycle Management: Simplifies onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring efficient management of access right
B. For what areas will it be used
- Single Sign-On (SSO): SSO allows users to log in once and gain access to multiple systems without being prompted to log in again at each of the
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): MFA adds an additional layer of security by requiring users to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource.
- Identity Governance and Administration (IGA): IGA involves the management of digital identities and their access rights, ensuring that the right individuals have the access they need at the right times and for the right reason
- Directory Services: IAM provides centralized directory services where user information, such as credentials and access rights, is stored and manage
- Compliance and Auditing: IAM systems help organizations comply with regulatory requirements by enforcing access policies and providing audit trails of access event
- Onboarding and Offboarding: IAM streamlines the process of adding new users (onboarding) and removing access for users who are no longer part of the organization (offboarding).
- Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM): CIAM solutions manage identities and access for customers accessing online services and applications.
- Risk Management: By monitoring and analyzing user activities, IAM systems can identify and mitigate potential security risks, such as unauthorized access or suspicious behavior patterns.
- Secure access in critical infrastructure: The KRITIS-DachG requires stringent security protocols for critical infrastructure, highlighting the importance of robust smart access systems. These systems, incorporating Identity and Access Management (IAM) with biometric authentication, ensure secure, efficient, and controlled access to sensitive areas. IAM with biometrics provides higher security by verifying individuals through unique physical characteristics, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and enhancing protection against intrusions. NIS2UmsuCG underscores the necessity of cybersecurity in essential services. In high-security environments, IAM solutions with biometric authentication are crucial for meeting these standards. They provide secure authentication, continuous monitoring, and audit capabilities to prevent breaches, ensure compliance, and improve overall system resilience. Biometric authentication adds an additional layer of security by ensuring that only authorized personnel can access critical areas, thereby enhancing the integrity and reliability of the security infrastructure.
C. For what kind of access will it be used
- Corporate-owned endpoints (computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and other network-connected devices, POS systems, routers, firewalls, workstations, printers)
- On-premise network (routers, switches, firewalls, WLAN, file server, database server, application server, storage systems, DNS servers, intrusioin detection, virtal
- On-premise databases
- On-premise data center servers
- Employee-owned endpoints / BYOD
- Cloud based databases
- IoT buildings, doors, areas, vehicles, objects (Access control, buildings, office, storage room, energy management, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, locking systems, residential buildings, hotels, offices, security areas, vehicle access and start, fleet management, personalized settings in vehicles, production facilities, manufacturing industry, machinery, production processes, medical devices.)
- Industrial control systems
D. Value to Klüh
- Cost Reduction: Significantly lowers operational costs by replacing traditional systems with a biometric-based approac
- Improved Experience: Enhances interactions for customers, employees, and partners through streamlined processes
- Security and Fraud Prevention: Minimizes risks associated with unauthorized access and fraud
- Compliance and Auditing: Enhances ability to meet regulatory demands and perform thorough audit
- Business Process Enhancement: Integrates advanced technology to refine organizational workflow
- Revenue Opportunities: Positions Klüh to offer this advanced solution to clients, particularly in heavily regulated industrie
E. Benefits
- Traction: Piloting Cardano blockchain technology with a multinational enterprise
- Generating Revenue: Transactions on Cardano generate fees, which contribute to the blockchain’s revenue and support the ecosyste
- More rewards for Stake Pool Operators: More transactions mean more rewards for those who operate and maintain the Cardano network, encouraging their continued support and participation
- Blueprint: We’re creating a model (blueprint) for identity verification and IAM that others across various industries can follow, proving Cardano's versatility and reliability
- Attracting New Interest: As we demonstrate how Cardano can handle identity and access management, more organizations and investors will be interested in using and supporting the Cardano ecosystem
D. Benefits to Cardano & Midnight
- Real-World Use Case: The integration with Klüh demonstrates a practical, high-value use of Cardano and Midnight in enterprise-level identity and access management, which can attract more businesses to adopt blockchain solutions
- More Transactions: Increased On-Chain Activity: As Klüh’s system leverages Cardano and Midnight for biometric authentication and access management, every interaction (authentication, access request) will generate more transactions on the blockchain, driving higher activity and revenue through fees.
- Blueprint for the Security Industry: Industry Adoption: This integration creates a blueprint for the entire security and access management industry, showcasing how Cardano and Midnight can be implemented in similar real-world applications. This could lead to widespread adoption across sectors like hospitality, corporate infrastructure, and critical infrastructure.
- Security and Privacy: Enhanced Privacy Features: Midnight’s focus on data protection and compliance enhances the security framework for identity management, ensuring privacy while enabling compliant and auditable systems for sensitive sectors.
- DeFi and Enterprise Growth: Increased Network Utility: With a growing number of real-world applications, the value of the Cardano and Midnight networks will rise, attracting more developers, enterprises, and investors to the ecosystem.
- Reputation Boost: Trust in Blockchain: The successful deployment of Cardano and Midnight in such a critical sector will build trust and prove that blockchain can handle secure, decentralized identity solutions on a large scale.
This combination strengthens Cardano’s position as a reliable, scalable blockchain, while Midnight.network stands out as a leading player in privacy-preserving technologies.