State Of Identity

Digital Identity has the power to enable "trust" in a matter of seconds. It's changed the game — from trading assets and voting to obtaining access to everyday services. How do you create trust? On this week's State of Identity, host Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Alexei Stanislawski, CEO at maat.ai to discuss the trust paradox. As government-issued documents become obsolete, we can expect to see a shift towards peer-to-peer networks building a new trust framework from the digital traits of our lives.

Organizations, node operators, and leaders are contributing to the emerging concept of decentralized identity, which puts identity back into the control of its people. On this week's State of Identity podcast host, Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Indicio's CEO, Heather Dahl, and CTO, Ken Ebert, to discuss identity wallets, verified credentials, the role of the Sovrin Foundation, and new momentum around interoperability across decentralized identity.

Digital identity is now recognized as a key building block in digitizing public administration; however, it requires interoperability with private sector use cases to drive value for its citizens. In this week's State of Identity podcast, we're joined by Sebastian Manhart, Advisor on Digital Identity for the German Federal Chancellery to discuss recent developments in eIDAS applications, the potential for self-sovereign identity in government, and the outlook for digital identity infrastructure in Germany, Europe, and beyond.    

The past 10 years have introduced and welcomed mobile wallets, digital assistants, and the adoption of digital identity verification. With the intricacies of our online lives, the notion of tying verification to a credential is slowly dissipating. In this week's State of Identity podcast, join host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, and Rick Song, Co-founder, and CEO of Persona. They break down Persona's recent $150MM raise, what the next 10 years pose for identity verification, and a few expected challenges we can anticipate along the way.

In this month's Investing in Identity series, we break down the latest industry trends including: Movers & Shakers: Socure's $450MM raise at a $4.5B valuation in identity verification, Permutive's $75MM raise in privacy-first infrastructure for advertising, Neuro-ID's $35MM for behavioral analytics, and more M&A Activity: McAfee's going private in a $14B deal and SecureAuth acquires Acceptto to fuel additional action in passwordless solutions Musings of the Month: The internet was built without an identity layer. Will the metaverse? Here are our predictions on how governments, eIDs, and self-sovereign identity will play a role in building verifiable credentials for virtual reality. 

Imagine a world where you can replace keys, passwords, smartcards, and other physical tokens with the touch of your phone. It's not too far off. In this week's State of Identity, Liminal Managing Director, Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Chad Spensky, CEO of Allthenticate, Inc. as they discuss what once started as hacking access control systems for fun to designing digital choke points akin to the movie 300, and how it's fueled a mission to authenticate the "front door" of the future.

In the underbelly of the internet lurks darknet intelligence. When harnessed appropriately, big data from dark web indexing can minimize uncertainty and maximize cybersecurity in an increasingly hostile information environment. On this week's State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi welcomes Jessica Newman, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at DarkOwl, to discuss how creating a "Google for the dark web" lends itself to practical use cases - from law enforcement, government applications, to cybersecurity and beyond.

The crypto regulatory landscape is continuously evolving and establishing compliance is quickly becoming a competitive advantage. This week host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, is joined by Alice Nawfal, Notabene Co-Founder & COO, to tackle counterparty risk and why this spooks the regulators. You'll also learn what you need to know about the Crypto Travel Rule — what it is, how it's being enforced, and how crypto companies can stay ahead of regulations.

The Zero Trust model is the belief that no one should be trusted from inside or outside your network, until their identity has been verified. Zero trust refers to the alignment of maturing identity practices, an established understanding of user behaviors, and the application of least-privilege access security policy decisions to trust boundaries. In this week's State of Identity, host, Cameron D’Ambrosi debunks the buzz around zero trust architecture with Ryan Case, Chief Cybersecurity Architect at SailPoint. They provide first-hand guidance on identity-defined security architecture and how it enriches authorization with both contextual and intelligent access information to make objective decisions. In this session, you'll learn how to reduce friction to end-users while enabling deliberate identity verification and policy decisions.

COVID fundamentally evolved the way we transact digitally — from healthcare to banking to online betting through crypto trading account opening. How will banks evolve remote account opening? How will organizations ensure people are responsibly gambling online? In this week's episode of State of Identity, host, Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Shaun Moore, the Chief Executive Officer of Trueface, a Pangiam company, and Patrick S. Flanagan, the Co-Founder and COO of Pangiam. They tackle these questions head-on, the broader context of digital identity and proofing solutions, Pangiam's recent acquisition of Trueface, and how software has been the critical piece delivering hardware-agnostic solutions.  

Will technology help save humanity or accelerate our demise? Listen in as host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, discusses with Guy Perelmuter, the Author of Present Future: Business, Science, and the Deep Tech Revolution and Founder of GRIDS Capital, to unwrap the evolution of cryptocurrencies and what that means for the future of money, how global supply chains change with AI, 3D printing, robotics, and blockchain technologies, and how a new “social score” may come into existence.

Building a digital identity platform from scratch in the “unbanked” population of the South African market poses significant challenges. The need for frictionless,customer-centric solutions, however, is not unique to any one geography, industry, or use case. In this week’s State of Identity podcast, host, Cameron D’Ambrosi is joined by Shaun Strydom, Founder, Executive Head, and Identity Futurologist at Contactable to discuss the race for digital identity orchestration and federation. They go beyond the bells and whistles of biometrics and verification solutions and reveal how fully orchestrated onboarding solves for organizational complexities when servicing customer journeys digitally.  

In an effort to mitigate climate change, technology, and data-driven intelligence are playing a critical factor in large-scale reforestation before it becomes a climate catastrophe. In this week's State of Identity podcast, join host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, and Arnout Asjes, CTO of the Land Life Company, as we discuss how the identity of things expands to agro-ecological use cases. From terrestrial monitoring apps and drones to machine learning algorithms incorporating satellite data, tech-driven reforestation projects are built with continuous feedback loops, helping our planet help mitigate climate change for the long haul.  

What if we could go beyond a fingerprint to establish behaviors, mannerisms, and motor movements that make you uniquely you? In this week's State of Identity podcast, host, Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Jonathan Nystrom, CEO of Intensity Analytics, to discuss the geospatial, multidimensional routines that comprise behavioral biometrics. Learn how machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques are being adopted as the next wave of frictionless authentication to compare previous behavior to current behavior, all to sufficiently identify that you're you.

Authentication solutions within financial institutions are still in disarray; however, there are intelligent, personalized digital experiences that are powering how the world connects, moves, and interacts with money. Join host Cameron D'Ambrosi and David Whitcomb, VP of Product Connectivity Experience at MX as we sit down to tackle the history behind open finance, where we are today, how fintechs know their customers with access to better data, and the power of open source technology.

Join host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, and Walter Beisheim, Chief Business Development Officer of Nok Nok Labs as they discuss fraud mitigation use cases including account takeover prevention and payments authentication. They address the benefits of a FIDO-compliant Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) solution and debunk the major myths around the adoption of SCA, the perceived friction that it imposes on your customers, and its impact on your business.

Fingerprinting technology is the backbone of most major fraud detection solutions. It identifies unique visitors and associated sessions, undeterred by incognito browsing, VPNs, cookie blockers, and other technologies used to anonymize fraudulent actors online. Join host Cameron D'Ambrosi and Dan Pinto, CEO of FingerprintJS as they discuss the power of browser fingerprinting as a service and how browser-driven identifiers can complement anti-fraud solutions with up to 99.5% accuracy. They tackle the benefits of first-party tracking and what's next in anti-fraud solutions.  

When designing automating customer onboarding flows, one of the most critical failure points is maintaining a well-designed consumer-facing user experience. When verifying new customers, is there a trade-off to maximize both pass rates and accuracy? Is the trade-off real or perceived? On this week's State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Steve Kirkham, Co-Founder at Berbix to discuss the P0 requirements for the next generation of technologies to verify new users both instantly and accurately.

The key to scaling digital identity solutions is to 'think global, act local.' How do we implement digital identity frameworks to ensure trust between transaction parties? How do we account for regional discrepancies including cultural nuances around consumer data privacy and consent? Join Cameron D'Ambrosi, host of State of Identity, and Michael Lynch, Chief Strategy Officer at Prove as they explore data solutions across the identity lifecycle, from creation and verification through authentication and authorization. You'll also learn how organizations are streamlining operations to remove friction, enable commerce, and detect potential fraud using a modernized authentication stack and identity resolution technologies.    

The identity industry is evolving. Once a niche field that very few people understood, digital identity is now a strategic piece in every organization's security architecture. Organizations are successfully breaking away from monolithic, legacy systems yet one key challenge that remains is building user-centric security solutions. To build centralized authorization in an increasingly decentralized world, identity data needs to be dynamic and easily adaptable — without changing a single line of code. Join host Cameron D'Ambrosi and Director of Strategic Alliances at Cloudentity David Lee as they pave way for the next realm of "identity 3.0" and break down open data, the adoption of new identity standards, and active governance systems across the organization.