An Overview on ARIES: Reliable European Identity Ecosystem

Identity-theft, fraud and other related cyber-crimes are continually evolving, causing important damages and problems for European citizens in both virtual and physical places. To meet this challenge, ARIES has devised and implemented a reliable identity management framework endowed with new processes, biometric features, services and security modules that strengthen the usage of secure identity credentials, thereby ensuring a privacy-respecting identity management solution for both physical and online processes. The framework is intended to reduce levels of identity-related crimes by tackling emerging patterns in identity-fraud, from a legal, ethical, socio-economic, technological and organization perspective. This chapter summarizes the main goals, approach taken, achievements and main research challenges in H2020 ARIES project.