Let's talk about digital identity with Dr. Salah Rustum, founder of CIEL and CIELTECH. Oscar is joined by Dr. Salah Rustum, founded of CIEL and CIELtech to discuss digital identity in the middle east – what digital identity challenges the organisations in this region are facing, what solutions could be introduced to help these challenges and what cyber laws are in this region and his role in introducing these laws. "Everybody wants to be on the internet, everybody wants to apply in new...

Let's talk about digital identity with Michael Palage, intellectual property attorney and an information technology consultant. In episode 77 Michael and Oscar discuss what DNS can bring to identity – what identity problems DNS can help to solve and how DNS fits with TRAIN. Michael also covers how LEIs are part of this solution. " I see the DNS being in an optimal infrastructure to facilitate identity discovery and look up, and one that can seamlessly integrate with the various identity...

Let's talk about digital identity with Roberth Lundin, Senior Security Consultant at Knowit. In episode 76, Senior Security Consultant at Knowit, Roberth Lundin, discusses identification services in Sweden alongside Smart Cards – what identification services are available in Sweden and why should someone have a BankID or Freja e-ID as well as what smart cards are and what is interesting about these. "But if you take a smart card, for example, well, you can't copy a smart card. That's...

Let’s talk about digital identity with David Birch, Principal at 15 Mb and author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. In episode 75 David Birch discusses digital currencies – the differences between digital currency and cryptocurrency, the role in which identity plays in digital currency and the importance on identity verification within digital currencies. “Digital currency needs some form of digital identity, that might actually drive digital identity forward and...

Let's talk about digital identity with Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting. In episode 74, Heather Flanagan discusses making identity easy for everyone – how to explain digital identity to people outside of the identity industry, why is it important for everyone to understand, and how the industry can help to improve the understanding of identity for everyone. "If you talk to any identity professional, they will agree that passwords are one of the biggest, possibly...

Let’s talk about digital identity with Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director of the Global Privacy and Security by Design Centre. In our series opener, Ann Cavoukian discusses Privacy by Design – the 7 foundational principles, the issues that it aims to solve and how Privacy by Design has evolved and is being used in today’s teach products. [Transcript below] “Often companies want to give privacy to their customers and at the first instance … they get their consent, their positive consent...

Let's talk about digital identity with Simon Moffatt, CEO and Analyst at The Cyber Hut. In episode 72, Simon Moffatt from The Cyber Hut discusses what is next for identity and access management – what his recent research has regarding passwordless authentication and next generation authorisation, alongside what trends are emerging in IAM and how he sees the IAM landscape evolving in the future. " I think the technology is there today, I think there are numerous different solutions, whether...

Join Oscar and John Wunderlich in this week’s podcast episode 71, as they discuss mobile credentials – what are the challenges and solutions surrounding mobile credentials, what is IAMs role in this and how systems need to be developed around trust. "So, you have different levels of assurance in the physical world, just as you do in the digital world. So, anybody can issue a credential, the question is what level of authority you give to the credential." John Wunderlich is an...

In episode 70, Nicky Hickman and Dr. Rachel O’Connell of TrustElevate discuss children’s digital identity – why this is so important, what challenges are currently being faced and what solutions need to be put into place to help protect children with the digital landscape. "There is a clear and present need for regulatory drivers to enhance children's safety online to ensure the companies are held accountable and are transparent in terms of the measures that they take to keep kids safe...

In episode 69, Oscar and Aaron discuss identity in the metaverse – including Aaron’s vision for how both people and organisations can prove their identity in the metaverse, and what virtual platforms can do to make their communities safer/more trustworthy. “I’m deeply optimistic that we can create this metaverse environment, or the next generation of the internet or Web 3.0, with a greater sense of authenticity behind people to create safer and more trusted spaces.” Aaron Painter is the...

In episode 68, Bo discusses all things eIDAS 2.0 – what eIDAS 2.0 is and how it differs from eIDAS 1.0; the opportunities with Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and eReceipts; public and private sector involvement; what the world can learn from the Nordics for projects like eIDAS and GAIN; and how smaller players can influence the Commission’s decisions. "Some people say that this is more important than the Internet, I agree… During 40 years of digital work, I've seen a lot of important...

Episode 67 explores inclusive identity. Making identity solutions inclusive for everyone wanting (or needing) to use them is a topic that's coming more and more to the forefront of the identity industry. From logging into apps, to accessing essential services; to how barriers to organisation identity is impacting individuals - in this episode, we speak to three guests from the identity industry on what they're doing to help solve these issues. Schehrezade Davidson is the CEO of Tricerion...

In episode 66, Keiron talks to Oscar about mobile/phone-centric identity, and what it offers to users and organisations that other types of identity/security measures can't. They also explore the key challenges when it comes to mobile identity and how to mitigate against those, particularly when it comes vulnerable people. "Mobile is obviously the most relevant future-proofed method of verification." Keiron Dalton is currently UK Country Manager and VP for International market...

In this shorter bonus episode, Oscar discusses IAM Academy – Ubisecure's free training on Identity and Access Management (IAM) and our Identity Platform for our partners and customers. Listen to the episode to find out why we launched the courses, how they've evolved over the years, a clip from the training, and why it's so important to keep up to date on IAM. We'll be back to the usual schedule next week! In the meantime, catch up on episodes with guests featured in this...

In episode 64, Oscar and Jessica explore the ethical issues surrounding digital identity, and what's happening to ensure ethical use of identity in the UK and globally. Plus, how organisations can continue to protect themselves while staying on the right side of this ethical minefield. "These issues are just too important to leave to business as usual. These issues are everyone's responsibility to fix." Jessica is a strategist specialising in trust and security, governance, and the role...

In episode 63, Richard fills us in on the latest developments in the UK Government’s Identity strategy; how the public sector should be approaching IAM in 2022; how organisations can ensure IAM implementations are successful/top mistakes to avoid; and creating a successful identity user experience (UX). "There is absolutely no reason in 2022 to be looking at on-prem environments for hosting IAM." Richard Slater started writing code on a second hand ZX Spectrum before he was 10. Today,...

In episode 62, Olly discusses all things WebAuthN – including what it is exactly, when and why you would use it, cost savings enabled by WebAuthN, how secure it is compared to other standards, and how easy it is to use and deploy. "WebAuthN is the most exciting development that I've seen over the last four and a half years working with Trusona" Olly Brough is Managing Director of EMEA at Trusona Inc. Olly has built his career delivering best in class payments, anti-fraud and identity...

In episode 61, Oscar talks to Aran about how social media companies handle identity management and data privacy, and considerations for businesses offering social media identity providers for login to their online services. "Identity plays a different role in different places around the social ecosystem today that is really dependent on what the goal of that underlying social platform is and sort of what regulatory regime it operates under." Aran Khanna has been labelled many things....

In episode 61, Oscar speaks to Nick about the Open Identity Exchange (OIX)'s role in the Global Assured Identity Network (GAIN), plus the OIX Trust Framework 2022. Nick discusses what makes a trust framework work for its intended users, and how to make it interoperable with other frameworks. "When things work for users, they get adopted." Nick is Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, a community for all those involved in the ID sector to connect and collaborate....

In episode 59, Nat returns to the podcast to discuss Financial-Grade API (FAPI), the base security protocol for UK Open Banking, Australian Consumer Data Standard, Brazil's Open Banking. He discusses why and how FAPI was formed; what exactly FAPI is – including technical characteristics; how FAPI is used today; and future plans for the specification - as well as how it connects to GAIN. "The data economy needs a secure and interoperable data network. And we are finally getting there with...

In episode 58, Oscar talks to Ian about how far a tighter budget can get you on your Identity and Access Management (IAM) journey. Ian discusses the best approaches to steps prioritisation, avoiding scope creep when it comes to time constraints, how to preserve budget whilst maximising time-to-value, and considerations for a gated funding approach. "It can't be words. It's got to be metrics." Originally from New Zealand, Ian started Intragen in 2006 after working for several companies...

In episode 57, Oscar talks to Titi about the various trust frameworks being developed across the world. Titi also explores how the frameworks could interact with each other across borders, how important the frameworks are to ensuring data privacy is upheld, and about the Good ID movement. "Digital identity is very much at the core of a lot of the adoption of technology that’s happening." Titi Akinsanmi is a Public Policy thought leader on the digital economy focused on shaping an...

Following his Swedish TV series, Hackad, professional hacker Linus discusses the biggest risks that insufficient identity management can create for individuals and organisations. Oscar and Linus explore the pitfalls of authentication, authorization (including MFA), and more – and how these lead to security incidents. "We have a standard way of identifying a person in real life – passport, driver’s license, national identity card. But as far as I’m aware, we don’t have one that is...

In episode 55, Oscar speaks to Kristofer about Swedish verified identity provider, Freja eID. They discuss why Freja was created; how it works; where it can be used; how it compares with BankID; how it ties in with European identity schemes; the importance of organisation identity and Freja's plans for the future. Kristofer von Beetzen is the Chief Product Officer at Freja eID. He joined the company in 2012 and was part of the transformation from a technology-centric IT security company to...

In this week's special episode, Oscar explores the history of OpenID Connect and how it became so prevalent, with special guests Nat Sakimura, Chairman at the OpenID Foundation, and Petteri Stenius, Principal Scientist at Ubisecure. Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or read the transcript at We’ll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure!