Let's Talk About Digital Identity

In episode 3, Oscar and Max discuss how Estonia is leading the way with an advanced digital government and what other countries can learn from them. Max also educates us on SplitKey – Cybernetica’s authentication and digital signature solution, which provides secure two-factor authentication and legally binding signatures. Find out more here - cyber.ee/products/digital-identity.

Max is the Product Manager for SplitKey at Cybernetica. Cybernetica is a research and development intensive ICT company, based in Estonia, that develops mission-critical software systems and products, maritime surveillance, and radio communications solutions. cyber.ee.

Max’s focus, beyond his product, is in digital identity in the real world, promoting Estonia as one of the best examples of where a long term, national digital identity has enabled massive efficiencies in both the public and private sector, with many lessons ready to be learnt by those that might follow.

Prior to joining Cybernetica, Max worked in consulting as a digital transformation project manager in London, working on large scale, business critical programmes.

Reach Max on Twitter - @MaxCvdP – or LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/maxvdp.

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In episode 2, Oscar interviews Simon Wood about his passion for digital identity and touches on some of the ways that Ubisecure is tackling challenges in the industry.

Also hear about Right to Represent - the brand new, pioneering Ubisecure service enabling advanced delegation between all combinations of individuals and organisations - and its value for organisations. Read more about Right to Represent here - www.ubisecure.com/right-to-represent/.

As Group CEO at Ubisecure, Simon is responsible for planning, communicating and delivering Ubisecure’s overall vision and corporate strategy to enable the true potential of digital business through modern identity management solutions. 

Simon is a dedicated and uncompromising technology business leader, grounded in sophisticated high performance solutions. Previously, at GlobalSign, Simon led the strategic and technical growth of the company and during his tenure has overseen, from inception, the transition to high volume operations, providing world record performance, both technically and commercially.

At QuantumWave Capital Simon led the Venture Building practice, engaging, signing and working with deep technology early stage companies, preparing them for exit to large acquirers. Responsible for top-line performance Simon transformed the engagement model delivering a stable pipeline with predictable recurring revenue.

Prior to this Simon held a number of development leadership roles for software companies specialising in high-performance, real-time communications capture, analysis, and distribution, including highly secure military radio, aircraft black box analysis, Formula 1 telemetry and ECU management systems.

Simon graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University. He holds multiple patents in the field of mobile internet software systems design. 

Find Simon on LinkedIn.

Ubisecure provides feature rich customer identity management software and services. The company provides a powerful Identity Platform and Identity Cloud to connect customer and citizen digital identities with customer-facing applications. The platform consists of productised Customer Identity & Access (CIAM) middleware and API tooling to enable single digital identity benefits across multiple applications. Features include single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), authorisation workflows, user identity management, and pre-established connections to dozens of third-party identity providers (social, mobile, and verified).

Find out more about Ubisecure at www.ubisecure.com.

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Welcome to the very first episode of Let’s Talk About Digital Identity! Today we’re keeping up with the Kantarians, as they celebrate Kantara’s 10th anniversary.

Join Oscar as he chats with Colin Wallis, Executive Director, about the Kantara Initiative, how they’re different to other associations, their consent receipt project, and the main challenges in digital identity – present & future.

Watch a short demo of the Kantara Consent Receipt on YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW578dJRNCI&t=1s

Colin leads the Kantara Initiative Inc. a globally acknowledged ethics based, mission-led Trust Framework Operator of conformity assessment and Trust Marked schemes for Identity, Credential and Consent Management Service Providers, and the only 3rd party assessor of services seeking conformance with NIST 800-63-3 IAL2/AAL2. Kantara's open and inclusive philosophy to community development attracts the leading edge of identity and privacy innovation in its Working Groups that in turn attract R&D and sponsored funding. Colin develops and executes the strategic plan in concert with the Board and Leadership Council, driving the organisation forward with the help of a dedicated band of expert volunteers. Colin's combined public and private sector background in online identity and privacy continues to ensure that the Kantara Initiative program is aligned with multiple eGovernment strategies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and the US while influencing others in Europe and around the world.

Building on 15 years of contribution to international standards and consortia, Colin maintains other leadership positions across the consortium space in Information Security, Privacy and Trusted Identity. He represents Kantara on the OECD's ITAC (Internet technical Advisory Committee) and is a Board Director of the US NSTIC IDESG. He resigned his role as NZ's HoD in ISO JTC1 SC27, his Board post on the Cloud Security Alliance's (CSA) NZ Chapter and his positions in OASIS all linked to his public service employment in New Zealand before moving to the UK early in 2016 to run Kantara. Colin was named in OWI's Top 100 Influencers in Identity in 2018.

Find Colin on LinkedIn and on Twitter @KantaraColin.

Kantara Initiative operates conformity assessment, assurance and grant if Trust Marks against de-jure standards under its Trust Framework program whilst in parallel nurturing ‘beyond-the-state-of-the-art’ ideas and developing specifications to transform the state of digital identity and personal data agency domains.

Find out more at kantarainitiative.org and www.kantarainitiative.eu. You can also find Kantara on LinkedIn.

And here's the link to Standard Label, as mentioned in the episode: standardlabel.org.

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