Years ago, McDonald’s had a sign in front of each restaurant that said, “Millions and millions sold.” It would be fair to appropriate this tagline to the world of your digital identity. That is because in 2017 147 million Americans in Equifax has personal data stolen. Oh, let us not forget the twenty-two million for the Office of Program Management and the fifty million from recent T-Mobile breaches. Because of this, it is important to understand some of the identification options for federal technology leaders. That is why we have Wes Turbeville from ID.me in the studio today.

Traditionally, identification started with a username and password. It has gotten to the point that so much personally identifiable information is floating on the Internet that major companies have initiated programs to eliminate this old-school way of authentication.