Blog by Raj Hegde

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Raising User Awareness to Increase Cyber Resilience
by Raj Hegde
With the common use of heuristics and especially the advance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in automated cyber threat mitigation, why do we still need to focus on user cybersecurity awareness?  In cybersecurity, there never was just one solution to reduce risk or fix mitigations. But you always need multiple layers of security. So each layer consists of additional aspects. Software and hardware measures are excellent at catching mass and known threats, with the advance in AI and also the detection of new threats based on known issues. But we can never neglect the...
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The Importance of Standards in the IT Security Industry
by Raj Hegde
Is the security sector served well by the standards, regulations, and frameworks we have? The security industry has been around for a good few years and we've understood the importance of standards. If you look at the way that standards, frameworks, and regulations work, it does take quite some time for them to come into place. In the early days, we had standards, which may have been around specific technologies, but they were quite general. So for example, we had the standards around wireless encryption. So, there are those sorts of standards. We have standards around...
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The 3 Essentials of a Cyber Leader
by Raj Hegde
Digital leaders face new challenges: a volatile political situation, an uncertain economic climate, and a new paradigm in the way their employees work. Raj explains how we identified the core qualities cyber leaders need in our times and how the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit was designed to give digital leaders the tools they need to take up those challenges. The Three Core Qualities of a Cyber Leader in Our Day and Age At the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit, we help you develop the core qualities of a digital leader. What are they? Leadership: learn how to...
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Empowering Individuals with Self-Sovereign Identity
by Raj Hegde
The decentralized identity paradigm disrupts traditional identity and access management ecosystems and requires a more democratic collaboration and competition among several identity and credential issuers. Dr. Michele Nati from IOTA Foundation will elaborate on this challenge in his Combined Session  Making SSI accessible: IOTA technology, solutions and projects on Thursday, May 12, at the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2022 . To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Michele some questions about his presentation. How important is SSI...
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Decentralization Is Like the Analog World
by Raj Hegde
Decentralized identity is an incredibly flexible technology that solves fundamental problems in the way we manage digital communication. But this capacity to do more than one thing at once can be a source of confusion. Heather Dahl from Indicio will elaborate on this challenge in her Combined Session  How to use the framework of a Trusted Data Ecosystem to simplify building decentralized identity solutions on Wednesday, May 11, at the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2022 . To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Heather some questions about her...
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The Reality of Deception for Cyber Resilience
by Raj Hegde
Dr. Donnie Wendt's presentation will explore adding deception as a component of a security-in-depth strategy to increase cyber resilience. He will elaborate on this idea in his keynote Vampires & Cybersecurity: Using Deception to Increase Cyber Resilience on Thursday, May 12, 2022, 11:30 am at the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2022 . To give you a sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Donnie some questions about his presentation. How is deception used in the cyber realm? I like to think of deception, you know, it's not really about deceiving the enemy,...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Joni Brennan on the Growing Public Demand for Digital Identity During the Pandemic
by Raj Hegde
Joni Brennan, President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada is to deliver a presentation entitled COVID Has Accelerated Public Demand for Digital ID on Monday, September 13 starting at 19:40 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Joni some questions about her planned presentation. In what ways has the pandemic impacted digital identity ecosystems? The pandemic has absolutely impacted digital ID ecosystems. It's done so in a number of ways, it's driven demand for people to start working from home, who hadn't before in...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Dave Mason on Future-Proofing Supply Chain Security
by Raj Hegde
Dave Mason, Supply Chain Compliance and Serialization Lead at Novartis is to contribute to the panel entitled Futureproofing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Security on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 6:00 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Dave some questions about this panel. How can digital identity secure the pharmaceutical supply chain in the future? So what is going on in United States is there's a rule called drug supply security act. It is one of the only serialization acts in the world that requires change of ownership. It's...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Carsten Stöcker on How an Entire Industry Adopts Digital Enterprise Identity
by Raj Hegde
Carsten Stöcker, co-founder and CEO at Spherity is to deliver a presentation on How an Entire Industry Adopts Digital Enterprise Identity on Wednesday, September 15 starting at 3:30 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Carsten some questions about his planned presentation. How would you describe the current state of the digital identity sector? The current state is determined by industry players and governments that are realizing the importance of digital identity. It's a part of digital identity for interactions on the internet...
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Peter Busch on Trust as the Key Concept
by Raj Hegde
Peter Busch, Product Owner Distributed Ledger Technologies Mobility at Robert Bosch Group, is to deliver a presentation entitled Trust as the Key Concept in Future Mobility on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 3:30 pm. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Peter some questions about his planned presentation. What are the problems of the identity's status quo today? Yeah, the identity status quo today. This is a tricky question because what we see these days is we get more and more in this area where we need identity, where you need to...
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