In this episode Frank is joined by Courtney Austin, Senior Director of International Marketing for LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Business Services. They explore the theme of the Digital Identity Summit 2019: Empowering the Network.
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Frank: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Digital Identity 360. We’re super honored today to have Courtney Austin, who is our Senior Director of International Marketing here at the company with us today. Courtney, welcome.
Courtney: Welcome. Pleased to be here. Thanks very much, Frank.
Frank: Yeah. This is the first one you and I have done together, so I’m really delighted you were able to join us. Especially in light of the upcoming London Summit. Folks as you know, we put on an annual Summit, it’s global now so just did one in Singapore, we’re doing one in London this year. It’s an opportunity for Courtney, our delegates and customers and really luminaries in the industry to get together and talk about the issues that are affecting them through this constant friction of good customer advocation and cybercrime and friction and so forth. Talk a little bit about the dates for the Summit and what the theme of the Summit will be this year.
Courtney: Really excited and it seems to me each year the Summit comes around very quickly and the theme for this Summit is Empowering the Network, building on last year’s theme of The Power to Predict so we’ll see how accurate we are in terms of those predictions. It’s a real highlight of the year, I’ve got to say that, for the company and of course the digital community as we come together as we talk about some of the key issues that are happening around the world of digital identity. The Summit is going to be in London. Last year it was in Paris. You might see behind me the little mural where we drew up last year of the messaging that happened across the Paris event, so we’re going to be doing the same this year in London and it’s a great chance to bring together not just the financial industry, but the eCommerce industry, retail, payments et cetera and we’re really looking forward to hearing a lot from all the different delegates.
Frank: It’s interesting, London is interesting for a number of reasons. One, obviously it’s the center of commerce there and we have a great presence with a lot of fantastic customers, but it’s also the inaugural geography for our consortium model. Where we’ve got kind of a next level of information that can be shared within an industry, so I think it’s going to be very interesting to see how our delegates begin to understand the improvements and enhancements we continue to make to ensure that they can collaborate together to stop cyber crime. Our delegates begin to understand the improvements and enhancements we continue to make to ensure that they can collaborate together to stop cybercrime. One of the things that came out of the APAC Summit that was very interesting is phrases like, cybercrime as a service or bots as a service and it’s clear that we’re facing adversaries whether they’re antagonistic nation states, whether they’re well funded crime syndicates or just very opportunistic and brilliant hackers that are combining and networking and have created this kind of black market business, of how to monetize exploits. I think the theme of Empowering the Network is never more important than it is now because in point of fact, if you look at the evolution of ThreatMetrix from the early days, to where we are today, we used to say “it takes a network to fight a network,” but it’s never more true than today. Without that network effect, organizations are really left at their own devices and sometimes they get lucky and sometimes they don’t. It really does take that cohesion and bringin...
