Episode 125 — Identify Orchestration: Are Passwords Obsolete?

Data Privacy Detective

Identity orchestration. Explore its meaning. Discover in Episode 125 how identity orchestration can protect data privacy and data security. Founder and CEO of Strata Identity [https://www.strata.io/], Eric Olden explores with us the change under way from passwords and multi-factor authentication to a radically different approach to safeguarding and verifying identities in a world of distributed data. Learn what a blue checkmark will mean within LinkedIn as one example.

Consider how a system of passwords and identity exposure sprinkled among hundreds of applications and sources exposes individuals and organizations to hacking and theft risk at the weakest link. Can technology protect us from ourselves? Learn what OIDC (OpenID Connect) means and how it relates to the ongoing struggle between mal-actors and the rest of us.

Time stamps:

01:12 — What is Identity Orchestration?

04:12 — What is Project Indigo?

07:01 — OIDC - OpenID Connect Protocol

15:25 — Challenges for privacy as technology changes, and what we can do about it