The podcast connecting identity and business. Each episode features an in-depth conversation with an identity management leader, focusing on industry hot topics and stories. Join Oscar Santolalla and his special guests as they discuss what’s current and what’s next for digital identity. Produced by Ubisecure.
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January 10, 2024Episode 10225 min
Exploring the Importance of Identity Governance with Craig Ramsay, Omada – Podcast Episode 102
Let's talk about digital identity with Craig Ramsay, Senior Solutions Architect at Omada.
What is Identity Governance and why is it important? Craig Ramsay, Senior Solutions Architect at Omada joins Oscar to explore all things Identity Governance including – the role of Identity Governance in compliance with regulations and standards, how it affects security and risk management for organisation, alongside some real-world examples of Identity Governance in use.
"We’re still trying to shake off the thing that - security is a barrier to efficiency. There’s an old adage that ‘efficiency is insecure, but security is inefficient’. But I don’t think that’s true anymore."
Craig Ramsay, Senior Solution Architect at Omada, from Edinburgh, Scotland. I have worked at Omada for 3 years and have previously worked at RSA Security and different financial services organisations in the UK within their Identity functions. Outside of work my main interests are hiking and travelling.
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December 13, 2023Episode 10128 min
The Right Time to Invest in Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Jesse Kurtto, Ubisecure
Let's talk about digital identity with Jesse Kurtto, DPO and Data Scientist at Ubisecure.
Is now the right time to invest into Identity and Access Management (IAM)? Join us for episode 101, as Oscar is exploring why now is the right time to invest into IAM with Jesse Kurtto, DPO and Data Scientist at Ubisecure – as they delve into the current economic situation and some of the key factors of investing into identity management.
"Digitalisation is ongoing, it's accelerating, it's unstoppable."
Known as the guy who shortened the world and lived to tell the tale, Jesse’s career is gradually arching from the Wild West world of finance to his current position as the DPO and Data Scientist at Ubisecure. Learning to program before learning to read Finnish and visiting 25 countries before 25, he’s no stranger in exploring uncharted waters and discovering connections that others might miss. Surrounded by a delicate balance of the latest technology and dozens of carefully tended houseplants, his secret hobby is putting the hiking boots and RPGs aside for a moment in order to write to his beloved snail mail friends across the world.
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November 29, 2023Episode 10032 min
Digital Identity Buzz: Passwordless, Identity Wallets & Digital Money with Heather Flanagan, Spherical Cow Consulting and David Birch, 15Mb
Let's talk about digital identity with Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting and David Birch, Principal at 15 Mb, author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services.
This is the 100th episode of Let’s Talk about Digital Identity – in this special episode two of our most popular guests, Heather Flanagan and David Birch, rejoined the podcast to explore what is exciting them in passwordless, identity wallets and digital money.
"Fraud and scam, it's just so completely out of control."
Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting and choreographer for Identity Flash Mob, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership roles with some of the most technical, volunteer-driven organisations on the Internet, including IDPro as Principal Editor, the IETF, the IAB, and the IRTF as RFC Series Editor, ICANN as Technical Writer, and REFEDS as Coordinator, just to name a few. If there is work going on to develop new Internet standards, or discussions around the future of digital identity, she is interested in engaging in that work.
Listen Episode 74, where Heather discusses Making Identity Easy for Everyone or connect with Heather on LinkedIn.
“The thing that's broken in digital money at the moment, is identity, not the payment bit.”
David G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. Principal at 15Mb, his advisory company, he is Global Ambassador for the secure electronic transactions consultancy, Consult Hyperion, Fintech Ambassador for Digital Jersey and Non-Executive Chair at Digiseq Ltd. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money. Ranked one of the top 100 fintech influencers for 2021, previously named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information by Wired magazine and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking by Financial Brand, he created one of the top 25 “must read” financial IT blogs and was found by PR Daily to be one of the top ten Twitter accounts followed by innovators (along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson).
His latest book “The Currency Cold War—Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony” (published in May 2020) “paints a fascinating and stimulating picture of the future of the world of digital payments and its possible impact on the wider global and economic orders” – Philip Middleton, OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute. His previous book “Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From money we understand to money that understands us” was published in June 2017 with a foreword by Andrew Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England. The LSE Review of Books said the book should be “widely read by graduate students of finance, financial law and related topics as well as policy makers involved in financial regulation”. The London Review of Books called his earlier book “Identity is the New Money” fresh, original, wide-ranging and “the best book on general issues around new forms of money”.
More information is available at dgwbirch.com and you can follow him @dgwbirch on X.
Listen to Episode 75 with David discussing Digital Currencies or connect with David on LinkedIn.
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November 16, 2023Episode 9933 min
The Missing Identity Layer of the Internet with Gautam Hazari, Sekura.id
Let's talk about digital identity with Gautam Hazari, mobile identity guru, technology enthusiast, AI expert and futurist & is the CTO of Sekura.id.
Join this episode of Let’s Talk About Digital Identity where Gautam Hazari, mobile identity guru, technology enthusiast, AI expert and futurist & is the CTO of Sekura.id joins Oscar to discuss the missing identity layer of the internet. Gautam shares details about what the missing identity layer is, more about mobile networks as well as discussing Gautam’s TEDx talk.
"Internet did not have that identity layer. So what did we do? We created a trust-less model."
Gautam Hazari is a mobile identity guru, technology enthusiast, AI expert and futurist & is the CTO of Sekura.id, the global leader in mobile identity services. He led the implementation of the mobile identity initiative – Mobile Connect - for around 60 mobile operators across 30 countries. Gautam had also been an advisor to start-ups in digital identity, healthcare, Internet of Things and Fraud and Security management. He is a thought leader for digital identity, advocating solving the identity crisis in the digital world and speaking on making the digital world a safer place. If you ask Gautam, “What is the best password?” you’ll always get the same answer: “The best password is no password”.
Connect with Gautam on LinkedIn.
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October 11, 2023Episode 9826 min
Generative AI in Identity Verification with Russ Cohn, IDVerse – Podcast Episode 98
Let's talk about digital identity with Russ Cohn, the (Go-To-Market) for IDVerse.
In episode 98, Russ Cohn the Go-To-Marketing for IDVerse joins Oscar to explore Generative AI within Identity Verification - including what is generative AI and deepfakes, why deepfakes are a threat for consumers and businesses, and some of the biggest pain points in the identity industry and how generative AI can support this.
"It's very important that we understand these threats and start to mitigate and create ways of helping to support and stop these practices."
Russ Cohn is the (Go-To-Market) for IDVerse, which provides online identity verification technology for businesses in the digital economy. Russ has spent more than 20 years scaling businesses of all sizes by delivering successful growth strategies across the UK, EMEA & US markets within fast-paced and high-growth online media, fraud, identity, SaaS, e-commerce, and data-driven technology solutions.
His strong tech knowledge is coupled with deep operational and commercial experience building teams within SaaS, advertising and marketing technology-driven revenue models. Russ was previously a key early member of the Google UK leadership team who grew the team from 25 to 3,000 people and the revenue from £10m to £1billion during his tenure. He brings deep experience supporting international technology companies and has a passion for marketing development, startup growth and technology solutions.
IDVerse empowers true identity globally. Our Zero Bias AI™ tested technology pioneered the use of generative AI to train deep neural network systems to protect against discrimination. Our fully-automated solution verifies users in seconds with just their face and smartphone—in over 220 countries and territories with any official ID document.
Connect with Ross on LinkedIn.
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September 27, 2023Episode 9728 min
The Role of Verifiable Credentials in Digital Identity with Riley Hughes, Trinsic – Podcast Episode 97
Let's talk about digital identity with Riley Hughes, Cofounder and CEO at Trinsic.
Join Oscar this week, he is joined by Riley Hughes, Cofounder and CEO at Trinsic and host of the Future of Identity podcast. They delve into Verifiable Credentials, including what verifiable credentials are, some examples and success stories of how these are being used and implemented, the connections between verifiable credentials and wallets and whether verifiable credentials will become interoperable.
"It seems like the future of identity will be much better than it is today."
Riley Hughes is CEO and Co-founder of Trinsic, a reusable identity infrastructure provider. As a leader in the decentralized identity community, Riley has pioneered efforts on making emerging, privacy-preserving technologies such as identity wallets and verifiable credentials adoptable to the masses. He began his career in the decentralized identity space as the second employee hired at the Sovrin Foundation where he established and led several teams.
Connect with Riley on LinkedIn.
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September 13, 2023Episode 9636 min
Unlocking Trust: Exploring vLEI & Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) with Drummond Reed & Andy Tobin, Gen – Podcast Episode 96
Let's talk about digital identity with Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services at Gen and Andy Tobin, Commercial Director, Europe at Gen.
In this series opener of Season 5, Drummond Reed and Andy Tobin join Oscar to explore vLEI’s and SSI. Including building an understanding of what LEI’s and vLEI’s are, and how SSI principles are used within vLEI’s, the benefits of vLEI’s, which sectors and industries will benefit the most and some use cases of where the vLEI has been applied.
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“If LEIs were digitised in a way that could be instantly verifiable, it could transform company onboarding.”
Drummond has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Gen, previous Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Officer. He is co-author of the book, ‘Self-Sovereign Identity’ (Manning Publications, 2021) and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust Over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Group. At the Sovrin Foundation, he served as co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group for five years.
From 2005-2015 he was co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee, a semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Drummond also served as Executive Director for two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, and as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he received the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was cited as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.
Connect with Drummond on LinkedIn.
Andy Tobin leads European and eIDAS strategy for Gen's Digital Trust Services business. He is one of the pioneers of self-sovereign identity and helped to establish Evernym as the world leader in this field. He is a well-known public speaker and writer on the topic of digital identity and has delivered some of the largest SSI projects to date.
His career has spanned the three rapidly converging sectors of identity, mobile and payments. He has written code to control cash machines, built the world’s first mCommerce server, run a £1.2bn mobile messaging network and been CTO for Europe’s first fully mobile bank. He is a passionate technology strategist who believes that the identity ecosystem and the personal information economy is poised for massive change, enabled by the capabilities being built right now by Avast.
Connect with Andy on LinkedIn.
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July 19, 2023Episode 9533 min
Exploring the Latest Updates in Global Assured Identity Network (GAIN) with Elizabeth Garber and Mark Haine
Let's talk about digital identity with Elizabeth Garber and Mark Haine, co-editors of the Global Assured Identity Network paper.
In episode 95, Elizabeth Garber and Mark Haine, who were both co-editors on the Global Assured Identity Network (GAIN) paper, join Oscar to share the latest updates for GAIN, including recapping what GAIN is, the challenges that have been faced, alongside successful case studies and what developments we can expect to see for the future of GAIN.
"It's all interconnected with standards development and has a really big impact on how identity systems will work, interoperable, in years to come."
You’ll remember Elizabeth Garber, who was one of the lead editors of the GAIN paper - we interviewed her in episode 52 (back in October 2021).
Elizabeth has a long background in Customer Strategy and Product Management. She has also led the Open Digital Trust Initiative at the Institute of International Finance and co-chairs the OpenID Foundation's GAIN technical proof-of-concept, which strives to create globally interoperable networks for exchanging high-assurance identity information. Since we last interviewed her, she co-founded IDPartner, a venture-backed startup that puts people in control of their digital identities. It will be a key player in any Global Assured Identity Network (GAIN) as interoperable networks begin to flourish.
Elizabeth and Mark recently published a draft paper for the OpenID Foundation called “Human-Centric Design: a primer for government officials” which is all about how to design identity systems to sustain and promote human rights. It is open for public comment - and may feature on a future episode. You can find it on the OpenID Foundation website and blog, openid.net.
Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn.
Mark is an engineer and entrepreneur who has focussed his career on building solutions that enable business and mitigate risk in financial services.
Through Considrd.Consulting Ltd. Mark and his team are providing strategic security consultancy to a range of clients. He has also taken on a leadership role in the OpenID Foundation as Co-Chair of the eKYC & Identity Assurance Working Group and is a co-author of OpenID Connect for Identity Assurance specification. Mark also is a board member of the Open Identity Exchange.
Connect with Mark on LinkedIn.
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July 5, 2023Episode 9426 min
Single Sign-On Best Practices: How Organisations can Implement SSO with Keith Uber, Ubisecure
Let's talk about digital identity with Keith Uber, VP Customer Success at Ubisecure.
In episode 94, Keith joins Oscar to delve into Single Sign-On (SSO) best practises and how organisations can implement SSO – including technical aspects, how it used in practise and the advantages of SSO.
"The best type of single sign-on is where the user doesn't notice it."
Keith is VP Customer Success at Ubisecure. As an Identity and Access Management product expert, he leads the Sales Engineering team and is involved in many stages in the planning and design of demanding customer implementation projects. Keith is active in various industry organisations and has a keen interest particularly in government mandated digital identity systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in I.T. and a master’s degree in Economics, specialising in software business.
Check out Keith’s SSO video series.
Connect with Keith on LinkedIn.
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June 21, 2023Episode 9333 min
Understanding the Cultural Aspects of Digital Identity with Kalev Pihl, SK ID Solutions – Podcast Episode 93
Let's talk about digital identity with Kalev Pihl, CEO of SK ID Solutions.
In episode 93, Oscar is joined by Kalev Pihl, to answer ‘What are the cultural aspects of digital identity?’ They delve into the role of culture in shaping digital identity and how digital identity is being treated as a detached technology, without considering cultural differences. Alongside discussing the challenges in recognising these cultural aspects, as well as sharing some of the solutions at have successfully prioritised the human aspects of digital identity.
"We have to be designing mindfully those digital identity solutions for a specific culture, and I think that this is a value in the world."
Kalev has worked with digital identity over 25 years. Started with the topic in governmental side preparing Estonia for electronic identity on national identity card. Has since worked in financial sector and in Microsoft. Last 15 years he has been CEO of SK ID Solutions – trust service provider that serves digital identities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Connect with Kalev on LinkedIn.
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Go to @Ubisecure on YouTube to watch the video transcript for episode 93.
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