A hardened identity security device for secure persistent resource identification, the device comprising: a secure hardened chip or chipset packaging enclosure arrangement, wherein operations within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement are controlled by one or more protected processing environments included within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, the operations including: securely communicating with a remote administrative identity service and/or a cloud identity service; providing unpredictable emitter instruction control for supporting biometric liveness determination, wherein emitter instruction control is configured to cause an emitter arrangement to emit electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound; time stamping emitter electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound emission event information and corresponding sensor electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound sensing event information, such time stamping using information from a secure clock located within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, such sensor event information being provided by a sensor arrangement; correlating time-stamped emitter event information and sensor event information, and performing timing anomaly analysis of the emitter event information and the sensor event information, to evaluate liveness of a human subject; and storing, in a protected repository arrangement located within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, confidential information including biometric information and cryptographic key information, and wherein the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement employs an integrated circuit reverse engineering countermeasure arrangement. wherein operations within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement are controlled by one or more protected processing environments included within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, the operations including: securely communicating with a remote administrative identity service and/or a cloud identity service; providing unpredictable emitter instruction control for supporting biometric liveness determination, wherein emitter instruction control is configured to cause an emitter arrangement to emit electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound; time stamping emitter electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound emission event information and corresponding sensor electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound sensing event information, such time stamping using information from a secure clock located within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, such sensor event information being provided by a sensor arrangement; correlating time-stamped emitter event information and sensor event information, and performing timing anomaly analysis of the emitter event information and the sensor event information, to evaluate liveness of a human subject; and storing, in a protected repository arrangement located within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, confidential information including biometric information and cryptographic key information, and securely communicating with a remote administrative identity service and/or a cloud identity service; providing unpredictable emitter instruction control for supporting biometric liveness determination, wherein emitter instruction control is configured to cause an emitter arrangement to emit electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound; time stamping emitter electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound emission event information and corresponding sensor electromagnetic radiation and/or ultra-sound sensing event information, such time stamping using information from a secure clock located within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, such sensor event information being provided by a sensor arrangement; correlating time-stamped emitter event information and sensor event information, and performing timing anomaly analysis of the emitter event information and the sensor event information, to evaluate liveness of a human subject; and storing, in a protected repository arrangement located within the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement, confidential information including biometric information and cryptographic key information, and wherein the secure hardened packaging enclosure arrangement employs an integrated circuit reverse engineering countermeasure arrangement.