Let's Talk About Digital Identity

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 ease with privacy and security within these solutions. As well as discussing how education and awareness can help bridge the gaps and what can be done within governance and policy to support digital identities, transparency and data control.

"So, I think this is a call to action for us to continue to work together to provide people with the option so that they can do what they need to do in a safe and secure way."

Find out more about DIACC at diacc.ca or follow it on Twitter @mydiacc.

Joni Brennan is President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC). Building on 15+ years of experience in Identity Access Management innovation, adoption, and industry standards development, Joni helps the DIACC to fulfil its vision delivering the resources needed to establish a digital identity ecosystem that accelerates the digital economy, grows Canada's GDP and benefits all Canadians. Joni builds diplomatic and impactful relationships and formalizes strategic partnerships. She has participated in influential committees from organizations including: SCC Data Governance Initiative, OECD ITAC, ISOC, IEEE, OASIS, ISO, and ITU-T.

Before joining DIACC Joni was Kantara Initiative's Executive Director driving programs for business, legal, and technology interoperability to connect entities and individuals in a more trustworthy environment. Joni lead Kantara Initiative as the United States premiere trust framework provider delivering value to multiple industry sectors. Joni helped to ensure that the Kantara Initiative program is aligned with multiple eGovernment strategies from economic regions including: Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Joni Brennan previously served as the first-ever IEEE-SA Technology Evangelist for Internet Identity and Trust focusing on issues of governance, policy, and technology development that touch digital Identity, personally identifiable information, and trust services.

When not connecting the digital identity world for the better Joni can be found skiing in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. She can also be found playing flute or synthesizers in future thinking musical collaborations.

Connect with Joni on LinkedIn.

Take a look at the Canadian Digital Identity Research 2022 Document, in English or French.

Joni first joined Let’s Talk About Digital Identity podcast in Season 1 Episode 6. Why not take a listen to the episode on Building Canada’s Digital Identity Future.

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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 success stories from around the world and what use cases we can except to see in the future.

"Open finance layered in with a digital identity can truly help us plan better, execute, have better offerings, save money, and be able to plan better for our future."

Michelle Beyo is the CEO & founder of FINAVATOR, an award-winning Payments and Future of Finance Consultancy. She is also a strategic advisor to FinTechs, a Money 20/20 Rise Up alumni, a Global Council Member of Women in Payments, the Membership Chair at Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization, a Payment Advisor at National Crowdfunding and FinTech Association of Canada, and a Board Member at Open Banking Initiative Canada.

Michelle started FINAVATOR as she is passionate about payments and financial inclusion. She has 20 years of extensive industry experience driving innovation across the retail and payments industry. Michelle Beyo was named the “Top 30 Best CEOs of 2021” by The Silicon Valley Review and FINAVATOR was awarded "Most Influential Leader in FinTech Consulting - Canada" in 2020.

Find out more about FINAVATOR at www.finavator.com or Michelle Beyo at www.michellebeyo.com.

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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 high level automation. That means you need to be able to validate the document electronically to the person who has signed it."

Magnus Kardell is the Product Owner for SignPort, an IP product developed by Knowit enabling high-security e-identification and e-signatures. He is a specialist in identification and signing services, with a focus on IAM, and SSO federations. Magnus started his career in this field in 2013 and has since gained extensive experience in the public sector, catering to clients with high-security standards and needs. With a strong background in the industry, Magnus is dedicated to delivering innovative and secure solutions to his clients through SignPort.

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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 Design becoming an ISO Standard.

“If you don't have a strong foundation of security from end to end with full lifecycle protection, you're not going to have any privacy.” ~ Ann Cavoukian

Dr Ann Cavoukian is recognised as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. Dr Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognising Privacy by Design as an International Standard. Since then, PbD has been translated into 40 languages! In 2018, PbD was included in a sweeping new law in the EU: the General Data Protection Regulation.

Dr Cavoukian is now the Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University, and a Faculty Fellow of the Centre for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Listen to Episode 73, where Ann joined the podcast to discuss Privacy by Design, and connect with Ann on LinkedIn.

“One of the really challenging things about privacy and security is if you don't bake it in at the lower layers, if you don't build that foundation, it's really hard to go back and put it into a product or service afterwards.” ~ Katryna Dow

Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco; a personal data & distributed ledger platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust. Katryna has been pioneering personal data rights since 2002, when she envisioned a time when personal sovereignty, identity and contextual privacy would be as important as being connected. Now within the context of GDPR and Open Banking, distributed ledger, cloud, AI and IoT have converged to make Meeco both possible and necessary.

Find out more about Meeco at meeco.me.

For the past three years, Katryna has been named as one of the Top 100 Identity Influencers. She is the co-author of the blockchain identity paper ‘Immutable Me’ and co-author/co-architect of Meeco’s distributed ledger solution and technical White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data. Katryna speaks globally on digital rights, privacy and data innovation.

Listen to Episode 30, where Katryna joined the podcast to discuss Data minimisation, and connect with Katryna on LinkedIn.

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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 are supporting verified digital identities.

"LEIs have been born out of the financial sector, through regulation. But we do see business use. in all sectors. is useful to be able to enable less fraud within a country, or better and smoother cross-border use cases for companies."

Adrian leads OneID’s market development, working with banks, industry groups, Government and regulators to enable the UK market for ID services to grow and succeed.

He is also engaged with the Open Identity Foundation developing global open standards for identity, and global projects to connect identity schemes cross-border.

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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 schemes, alongside some examples of live local identity schemes. They also discuss what are the disadvantages of these local identity schemes and how they could be incorporated into wallet-based identification, like eIDAS 2.0.

"Put the human at the centre, what the individual’s needs, what the individuals want to achieve … and that is basically the ethical perspective, or the value perspective on digital identity solutions that we have in the world today."

Henk Marsman combines deep knowledge on digital identity with an ethical view on the impact on individuals and society of digitalization of identity. His research on the ‘ethics of digital identity’ is still ongoing. Henk is involved in initiatives related to national digital identity (including eIDAS2.0), municipal digital identity and specifically for undocumented persons. Next to that he’s supporting organisations through his work at SonicBee, a Dutch IAM boutique firm, in digital identity projects. He has worked for 5 years at a top-three Dutch bank (Rabobank) as the global service owner for the Identity and Access Management services, and prior to that was senior manager with Deloitte, leading the Dutch IAM practice.

Connect with Henk on LinkedIn. Find his personal blog at ThroughIdentity and other blogs and articles at SonicBee.

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Learn about the commercial and technical aspects of Identity & Access Management, at IAM Academy, Ubisecure’s partner training program.

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 think identity access management is going, growing, and continuing is around the areas of security."

For more from John take a look at his blogs or contact the team. Find more information and resources on our Hybrid IAM page.

Join us at the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit, on the 6-7th March in London. Find the booth and session details or book a demo with the Ubisecure team.

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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 company at risk and how to get businesspeople more interested in identity.

"Because people are part of the business, so are identities."

Petri Heinälä works in global Fujitsu as Security Offering Architect and his area of specialisation is Digital Identities. His aim is to bring Digital Identities closer to real life and businesses with common sense thinking and talking less technology language. He noticed throughout his long career that the only permanent thing is change and understanding that has helped Petri keep up with the development and changes of life, business and technology.

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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 engineering.

"Two factor or multi-factor, in any form, is always going to be a good thing. It's better than, like you say, one thing, which can be found out or hacked like a password."

Jenny Radcliffe is a world-renowned Social Engineer, hired to bypass security systems through a mixture of psychology, con-artistry, cunning and guile. A "burglar" for hire and entertaining educator, she has spent a lifetime talking her way into secure locations, protecting clients from scammers, and leading simulated criminal attacks on organisations of all sizes in order to help secure money, data and information from malicious attacks.

Jenny has received many industry awards and was most recently inducted into the prestigious InfoSec Hall of Fame in 2022. She has also been named as one of the top 30 female cyber security leaders in 2022 by SC Magazine, one of the top 25 Women in Cyber by IT Security Guru, and as a Top 50 Women of Influence in Cyber in 2019. She was nominated in seven categories for the 2021 Security Serious Awards in 2021 including the prestigious “Godmother of Security” award in 2020 winning the “Most Educational Security Blog" for her show The Human Factor podcast interviewing industry leaders, bloggers, experts, fellow social engineers and con artists about all elements of security and preventing people from becoming victims of malicious social engineering.

Jenny is a sought-after global keynote speaker at major conferences and corporate events and is a multiple TEDx contributor. A go-to guest expert on the human element of security, scams, cons and hacks, she has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, as well as online media and traditional press outlets, and helps create unique content for international brands and organisations. An experienced podcast host, panel chair and interviewer she hosted the live weekly cyber talkshow "Teiss Talk" for two years and is frequently asked to chair live events for clients both virtually and in-person.

Jenny's upcoming book "People Hacker - Confessions of a Burglar for Hire" will be released in February 2023, published by Simon and Schuster.

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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 we own and control our own data, that we control our own digital assets, and that we control our own identity and reputation."

Dr Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker. He is a leading strategic futurist who thinks about how emerging technologies change organizations, society and the metaverse. He is the founder of the Digital Futures Institute, with a mission to ensure a thriving digital future for business and society. Van Rijmenam is an international keynote speaker, and 5x author. His latest book is Future Visions, which was written in five days in collaboration with AI.

Find his articles and books at The Digital Speaker.

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