Episode 78: The 2025 NHI Cybersecurity Landscape
Beware the threat of unmanaged Non-Human Identity! Join us for a discussion on what you need to know to survive the coming apocolyptic reckoning of unconstrained machine access!
🧑‍💻 What are Non-Human Identities
⏰ Why Now – Why Should You Be Concerned
♻️ Key Lifecycles Processes for managing NHI Risks
⚖️ Regulatory Perspective
đź“Ź Standards e..g SPIFFE/SPIRE, WIMSE …
đź“Š The NHI Market
đź”® 2025 Outlook and Predictions
Episode 77: How Cedar Simplifies Authz for Developers
“Ergonomic syntax” was a core design requirement of the Cedar language. In plain English, that means Cedar should be intutitive for developers to express complex access rules… and hopefully fun! By mapping easily to the application model, Cedar entites and resources integrate seamlessly with modern applications. Join us as we unpack Cedar’s core features and discuss how it empowers developers to deliver robust, secure authorization solutions without getting lost in complicated policy logic.
Episode 76: The Future of IGA
🚀 Join us for the first Identerati Office Hours Livestream of 2025 🎆 , as we dive into the Future of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)!
We’re thrilled to host identerati Radovan SemanÄŤĂk , Slávek Licehammer of Evolveum and AndrĂ© Koot of SonicBee for discussions on the IGA trends shaping the industry, and strategies to future-proof your identity governance program.
Episode 75: Trinsic’s pivot from SSI to identity acceptance
SSI adoption has been slow for years. Trinsic has iterated a great deal in the space and settled on a new business model in identity acceptance. Riley will walk us through lessons learned and how it led them to disrupt the identity verification market.
Episode 74: Cedarling Launch
It’s been a long journey, but the first commercial release of Cedarling is finally here! Join Mike and Mike for a quick tour and demonstration of the Cedarling!
Episode 73: The Future of AuthZ, from A to Z
Summarizing lessons learned from a year of editing the free weekly AuthZ.substack.com newsletter, and my personal
thoughts on the future of DecentIAM.com, this talk tackles
• Why will we need AuthZ?
• What problems will it solve?
• How soon will it be adopted?
Episode 72: Intro to MOSIP for foundational national identity
The Gates Foundation and other donors are funding the open source MOSIP platform to provide some of the tools nations need to build a foundational identity system–a key enabler for digital public infrastructure. Making a foundational identity offering accessible in nations with significant ethnic and regional diversity is especially challenging. This discussion will introduce some of the basic features of MOSIP and how it’s used as part of Ethiopia’s National ID program.
Episode 71: ConnectID – one year on
Building a new ecosystem is not for a faint hearted but it is possible if you work with the industry, international standards bodies, and global identity community. The conversation will cover what worked and what didn’t; what is next for ConnectID?
Episode 70: Removing Cloud Providers From the Zero Trust Equation
SPIFFE is a framework to generate identities for software systems in dynamic and heterogeneous environments. SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Documents (SVIDs) enable us to be explicit about the trust we place in systems. However, the degree of trust we can place in SVIDs relies heavily on the soundness of the data gathering and verification process during node attestation. By leveraging confidential computing technologies, specifically Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) we can track platform information directly in hardware, including firmware, boot loader, and kernel images, which are then signed with a key rooted inside the CPU itself. By incorporating hardware-protected platform information directly into the SVID generation process, we can significantly enhance the confidence placed in the resulting identity documents. Additionally, consumers of these SVIDs will be able to assert these properties before placing trust in a system.
Episode 68: UN and OpenWallet Digital Public Infrastructure Collaboration
The UN sees public sector adoption of open source software as playing a key role in governments’ digital transformation. The OpenWallet Forum, building on the success of the OpenWallet Foundation, will offer a platform for multistakeholder cooperation to integrate wide-ranging requirements from governments and companies into coordinated policies and technical standards for digital wallets. The forum will also be supported by the UN International Computing Centre (UNICC) and the Government of Switzerland.