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Managing the whole lifecycle for human and machine authentication

CIO Business Intelligence

In my last column for CIO.com , I outlined some of the cybersecurity issues around user authentication for verification of consumer and business accounts. . FIDO as an industry initiative was set up a decade ago to standardize the need for strong authentication/password technologies. My kids could have used (and abused) my accounts.

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Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

GeekWire

Employees of companies that issue credentials using Microsoft’s Verified ID will see a prompt in LinkedIn to verify their workplace. Employees of participating companies will see a prompt in LinkedIn to confirm their workplace using these credentials. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016.

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Authentic Digital Relationships

Phil Windley

Early Web companies had a problem: we needed to know things about people and there was no reliable way for them to tell us who they were. Fail to follow the company's terms of service? Our online relationships with ecommerce companies, social media providers, banks, and others are cold and impersonal, but also relatively efficient.

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

Summary: An identity metasystem like the Sovrin Network provides the foundation for creating tens of millions of interoperable identity systems for every conceivable context and use. This metasystem is in effect a system of systems that exposes a unified interface much like a device driver or network socket does. Drivers license.

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Hacked: Verkada Security Camera Company

SecureWorld News

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. Verkada's CEO posted a special security update to the company's website. Sales order information is used by our Command system to maintain the license state of our customers.

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John Krasinski’s adorable YouTube series ‘Some Good News’ is moving to CBS All Access

The Verge

ViacomCBS is licensing John Krasinski’s heartwarming weekly YouTube series Some Good News , making a once totally free and accessible show now locked behind a streaming paywall. After the episodes stream on All Access, they’ll “move to a number of the company’s linear networks,” according to the Reporter.

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It’s World Password Day but passwords may be headed for extinction

Network World

Today is World Password Day but a range of alternative authentication methods is challenging passwords so that within the foreseeable future the day of awareness could become obsolete. The backend verifies the identity of the taxpayer by comparing the license image and uses that to authenticate the person filing an electronic return.