TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– Aims to present intelligent authentication, authorization, and administration (I3A), a new concept that enables trust and information security between involved sides by agreement, rather than by over‐exercised enforcement. In order to understand the needs and motivators for the concept, seeks to discuss the areas of technology, policies, law, and human mindsets.Design/methodology/approach– Discussing two examples of possible solutions that would use the concept in e‐commerce.Findings– Offers an open platform for enabling I3A of cryptographic keys, certificates, and privileges and integrating the use of such with secured applications on a wide variety of devices and environments.Originality/value– Probably the first real exposition of the new concept I3A. VL - 14 IS - 1 SN - 0968-5227 DO - 10.1108/09685220610648346 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09685220610648346 AU - Eigeles Dan PY - 2006 Y1 - 2006/01/01 TI - Intelligent authentication, authorization, and administration (I3A) T2 - Information Management & Computer Security PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 5 EP - 23 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -