No more secrets: managing risk when access control breaks

This post is a first in a series I will be exchanging with Allison Miller, one of my esteemed colleagues in Paypal's Risk organization, in her reinstated blog.

“Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity”. (Erich Fromm)

“Identity” is a widely debated term, in various areas; Philosophy, psychology and social sciences discuss various aspects of the individual’s and a society’s identity and its representation in media, art and academic thought – from the Buddhist extremity of no-self to the capitalist self-definition based on what you buy, the variety of ancient and modern thought around definitions and applications of identity is vast. Loyal to the spirit of individualism in the Western world, the development of the New Age movement over the last decade led to the calling to each of us to find our own “true identity” through introspection; supported by modern psychology, the journey of identity constantly drives for defining, consolidating and presenting our personalities through titles that illuminate various aspects of our day to day behavior as part of a healthy, consistent and coherent identity that is who we are.