Four Healthy Frictions Will Guide the Future of Security Tokens

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Security tokens is a very young industry and is still trying to find its core identity. The early days of any groundbreaking technology trends are always marked by frictions between different school of thoughts that can send the market on one path or the other. To use some recent examples, the first years of cloud computing saw two main schools of thought collide: Companies like Amazon Web Services(AWS) focus on building pure infrastructure as a service(IaaS) in areas like storage or compute while Microsoft Azure and a group of startups, that no longer exist, lined up their efforts behind a service(PaaS) strategy focused on building higher level services. Ultimately, AWS proven to be more influential forcing platforms like Azure to launch their own infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Similar frictions can be found in the evolution of mobile apps with trends such as native versus HTML5 or even in the blockchain space in areas such as public versus permissioned blockchains. Even though we are in the very early days of security tokens, there are already very tangible friction points that are likely to influence the evolution of the market in the near future.