State Of Identity

Do you think traditional multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enough? On this State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi discusses key binding in biometrics with Daltrey Founder and CEO, Blair Crawford. This duo expands on passwordless authentication, liveness detection, and why it's not about the passwords, but about your identity.    

How will digital ID verification play a vital role in Metaverse success? On this week’s State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D’Ambrosi sits down with Aaron Painter, CEO at Nametag to discuss implementing ID verification in various emerging technologies like the blockchain and the metaverse. 

How do you define frictionless identity verification? On this week’s State of Identity podcast, we are joined by Footprints founders, Eli Wachs, CEO, and Alex Grinman, CTO for a discussion on leveraging AWS nitro enclaves to provide a secure computing environment with best-in-class encryption and access control.

In this month's Investing in Identity series, we dive into notable deals that are shaking up the summer and take a look at what July's stock rally implies for market performance this fall. This month's agenda features: HUMAN, a global leader in safeguarding against bot attacks and fraud has merged with PerimeterX. On the surface, these companies pose competitive threats to one another; however, the use of UEBA to support bot detection, account abuse detection, and fraud prevention, make for an attractive merger We watched the NASDAQ and S&P make a rebound in July. Is this a bear market rally? Hear our predictions moving into the fall for digital identity deal activity and deal count

Javier Mira, President, and CEO at FacePhi joins this State of Identity podcast to talk about the coming decentralization of the biometrics industry. How to drive inclusion and fairness with the use of biometrics. The role that liveness detection has to play in biometrics deployments moving forward, as well as the expansion outside of core regulated industries for biometrics.

What does the future hold for biometric identity verification platforms? Tune into this week’s State of Identity podcast to hear host Cameron D’Ambrosi and Julen Remesar, Head of Sales at Alice Biometrics discuss the pathway forward for a field that continues to evolve in the face of shifting regulations, platform demands, and new technologies.

What if verified identity was digitized? Join this week’s State of Identity podcast with host Cameron D’Ambrosi and Tomer Kagan, CEO and Co-Founder of Merit to tackle bringing liquidity to verified identity through full access, transparency, and utility for individuals. They dive into creating an ecosystem of truth and trust. Tune in, to find out how. 

Do you want to own and control your identity? Join this week's State of Identity podcast with host Cameron D'Ambrosi as he welcomes SimpleID CEO, Peter Kirby to discuss reusable digital identity, the blockchain, web3, and what it means to have an identity network on the blockchain.

This week's State of Identity podcast welcomes Sarah Clark, Senior Vice President, Digital Identity at Mastercard & Carlos Collodoro, CEO at IDPBR. We discuss their joint venture to bring Mastercard's digital identity network to the Brazilian market and unpack the unique circumstances of the digital identity market in Brazil.

In this month's Investing in Identity series, we dive into notable news, deals, and impacts on the digital identity community. This month's agenda features: Google, Microsoft, and Apple have committed to developing passwordless authentication options. LastPass joins the FIDO Alliance in the latest push for a passwordless revolution  The Federal Reserve approved the largest interest rate increase since 1994, signaling it will continue lifting rates through 2022. What does this mean for entrepreneurs and investors, and what impact does this have on the digital identity community? Middesk, a platform designed to automate business verification and underwriting decisions, raised $57MM in a Series B round co-led by Insight Partners and Canapi Ventures. What's the implication for identity-as-a-service APIs? Incognia took in $15.5MM to expand mobile anti-fraud solutions in a Series A, led by Point72 Ventures. What's the roadmap for global growth, for a company with 200 million users across 20 countries? 

On this week's State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi and Russ Cohn, General Manager, International at OCR Labs dive into the growing digital identity space. They discuss why digital identity is breaking out of some of these pigeonholes around risk and compliance that have been held for so many years, and how OCR Labs is differentiating itself among a crowded field of competitors in the ITV and Doc space.

Where is the intersection of trust and identity? On this week's State of Identity podcast host Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Steve Ritter, CTO at Mitek & Christopher Briggs Head of Product at Mitek to discuss their recent acquisition of HooYu, and what this means for the identity market, businesses, and consumers alike.

Open finance and APIs are driving a new era of financial innovation that will fuel new use cases and business models for financial institutions and fintechs. David Whitcomb, Vice President of Product at MX and Crystal Anderson, Vice President of Product Management at MX define “Open Finance,” how it’s part of the Open Banking movement, and will explain how financial institutions can benefit from open finance and drive innovation vs. leaving it to the latest fintech app.

How do state-sponsored cyber-attacks impact the techniques of the common cyber-criminal? On this week's State of Identity Podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi welcomes Chuck Everette, Director of Cybersecurity Advocacy at Deep Instinct to discuss today's evolving cyber threat landscape and why current defenses are light years behind.    

In this month's Investing in Identity series, we examine what a bear market indicates for high growth sectors like identity. This month's agenda features: Wall Street is on the cusp of a bear market. What does this mean for identity solutions and what are the market indicators to watch? Advice to startup founders and investors in the identity market with money at stake This month's movers and shakers: LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires BehavioSec, to bolster their predictive behavioral biometrics, continuous authentication, and fraud prevention capabilities

How do we secure API's? On this week's State of Identity podcast host, Cameron D'Ambrosi sits down with Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder & CEO at Salt Security to discuss the difference between authentication and authorization, particularly as it applies to APIs, API attacks, and the limits of applying identity-based controls to API security.

On this week's State of Identity, host Cameron D'Ambrosi welcomes Mike Vesey, CEO at IdRamp for an action-packed discussion surrounding zero-trust frameworks, identity orchestration, and interoperability. They explore low-code/no-code orchestration services, what to consider when making long-term complex identity decisions, and what the US is doing to protect Americans from sophisticated cyber threats after the White House issued Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. 

Where is the biggest AI bottleneck and what is the next foundational shift in AI? On this week's State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D’Ambrosi welcomes Dr. Eric Daimler, CEO & Co-Founder of Conexus AI to dive into data integration and consolidation. They break down the limitations of AI and look at  regulatory headwinds around the development and deployment of AI technologies.   

Is “better digital identity already in your pocket"? On this week's State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi asks Prove Co-founder and CEO Rodger Desai how the company is leveraging mobile signals and the largest and most accurate network of reusable identity credentials to help companies redefine business identity processes as revenue drivers instead of cost centers. We'll explore how reusable identity is changing the authentication game and how technology advancements such as 5G and the metaverse are spurring the need for mobile-powered tech that secures identity while also driving seamless experiences.

In this month's Investing in Identity series, we take a hard look at the latest market activity including companies (and people!) taking companies from public to private.  Twitter accepts Elon Musk's $44B offer to take the social media giant private. Musk has been very upfront about his mission to reduce bots by "authenticating all real humans." How will this reshape the social network for its 200MM users? Sailpoint, the enterprise identity security giant, is being taken private by Thoma Bravo for $6.9B LSEG is set to expand its global range of digital identity solutions through a recent acquisition of Global Data Consortium