Episodes
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...
Published 01/10/24
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...
Published 12/13/23
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...
Published 11/29/23
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...
Published 11/16/23
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...
Published 10/11/23
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...
Published 09/27/23
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...
Published 09/13/23
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...
Published 07/19/23
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...
Published 07/05/23
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...
Published 06/21/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Joni Brennan, President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). In episode 92 Joni Brennan joins Oscar to discuss how the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) are working to close the digital identity public trust gap – including the key findings from the DIACC’s 2022 research and how this can inform future policies, the issues with poorly designed solutions and the importance of balancing accessibility and...
Published 06/07/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Michelle Beyo, CEO and Founder of FINAVATOR. In episode 91, Oscar is joined by Michelle Beyo, CEO and Founder of FINAVATOR, to discuss Opening Banking and Open Finance. Discover more about using open banking and open finance to facilitate the future of finance and the role digital identity has within this. Join Michelle and Oscar as they explore what both open banking and open finance are, their mains benefits and potential privacy issues, alongside...
Published 05/24/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Magnus Kardell, Product Owner for SignPort, Knowit. In episode 90, Oscar is joined by Magnus Kardell, Product Owner for SignPort at Knowit, to explore digital signatures in Sweden – including the main challenges that public and private organisations face when looking for a digital signature solution, how to solve these challenges and what regulations signatures solutions need to comply with in Sweden. "It's demand for high availability, and demand for...
Published 05/10/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Oscar Santolalla, Ann Cavoukian and Katryna Dow. In this latest episode within the Identity Story Series, Ann Cavoukian, creator of Privacy by Design and Katryna Dow, CEO at Meeco, join Oscar to explore the road to becoming ISO 31700 for Privacy by Design. They discuss the importance of Privacy by Design and how it can help organisations protect their customers' personal data and comply with data protection regulations and the impact of Privacy by...
Published 04/19/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Adrian Field, Director of Market Development at OneID. In episode 88, Adrian Field, Director of Market Development at OneID, joins Oscar to explore verifying digital identities with online banking, the importance of online banking-based identity verification alongside it’s benefits for businesses and individuals. Join as they delve into the cross-border challenges that arise from individual country verified identities and how LEIs and UK Trust framework...
Published 03/29/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Henk Marsman, public speaker and Principal Consultant at SonicBee. In episode 87, Oscar is joined by Henk Marsman, specialist and public speaker around ethics of digital identity and Principal Consultant of Identity and Access Management at SonicBee. Henk and Oscar explore why local municipalities may need their own digital identity schemes – including how these local schemes differ from national schemes and how they help people missed by national...
Published 03/15/23
Let's talk about digital identity with John Jellema, VP of Product Management at Ubisecure. This is a special, bonus episode on Hybrid IAM, in the lead up to the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit 2023. Oscar is joined by John Jellema, VP of Product Management at Ubisecure to explore the hot topic of Hybrid IAM including what is meant by hybrid IAM, why and when to consider hybrid IAM, benefits and drawbacks and considerations for orchestration between different clouds. "Where I...
Published 03/01/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Petri Heinälä, Security Offering Architect at Fujitsu. Oscar is joined by Petri Heinälä, in episode 85, who’s aim is bringing digital identities closer to businesses and real life. In this episode Oscar and Petri explore the importance of organisations understanding and embracing digital identities and identity solutions, including what needs to be considered when investing in identity solutions, how a lack of understanding can put the project and...
Published 02/22/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Jenny Radcliffe, The People Hacker. In episode 84, ethical burglar for hire, Jenny Radcliffe, joins Oscar to discuss the importance of educating your staff to help protect your company against social engineering attacks - including the main vulnerabilities that social engineers exploit, how individuals and businesses can protect themselves online and how user authentication technologies can help, as well as how ransomware links to social...
Published 02/08/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Dr Mark van Rijmenam, Founder and Future Tech Strategist at The Digital Futures Institute. Dr Mark van Rijmenam joins Oscar to discuss Self-Sovereign Identity in the open metaverse - including his definition of metaverse, derived from his interviews with entrepreneurs for his latest book, the motivations for entrepreneurs to be building assets in the metaverse, the role of identity and its importance in the open metaverse. " I think it's crucial that...
Published 01/18/23
Let's talk about digital identity with Chris Southworth, Secretary General at the ICC and Oswald Kulyer, Global Head of Strategy at MonetaGo. Join Oscar as he discusses the Electronic Trade Documents Bill with Chris Southworth and Oscar Kuyler – what is the electronic trade documents bill, its aims and benefits and how this may spread globally to improve trade processes. "But, you know, what's important here is the disproportionate positive impact that will have, because it allows us to...
Published 12/21/22
Let's talk about digital identity with Oscar Santolalla and Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations at GLEIF. Episode 81 is an identity stories special, where Oscar and Clare discuss the history of identities for businesses and how and why the LEI was created and introduced – including how the LEI has been adopted globally, the challenges is has helped to solve and what the future of LEI might be. Connect with Oscar and Clare on LinkedIn. We’ll be continuing this conversation on Twitter...
Published 12/15/22
Let's talk about digital identity with Bianca Lopes, Identity Advocate, Investor. Join Bianca Lopes and Oscar as they discuss the top challenges, solutions and achievements within digital identity within the financial industry – the connection to regenerative finance (Refi) and digital identity and how this is changing identity in finance. " I think a lot of the microservices architectures that some of the banks and financial services companies have implemented in their movement to the...
Published 11/30/22
Let's talk about digital identity with Viky Manaila, Trust Services Director at Intesi Group. In episode 79 Oscar and Viky discuss eIDAS 2.0 and EU digital identity wallets – what eIDAS 2.0 and why was in created, what lessons were learnt from eIDAS and how have these helped to build eIDAD 2.0, and how the EU digital wallet related to eIDAS 2.0. "So, the aim of eIDAS 2.0 is to achieve the targets set in Europe's path to digital decade. Eighty percent of EU citizens being able to use a...
Published 11/16/22