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started. Welcome to a special episode of
the identity at the center podcast.
I'm Jeff and that's Jim. Hey Jim hey, Jeff, how are you?
Oh, and that's a bad going to cut right to it today.
We don't do commercials but since this is a special episode
we will help get the word out for identity conferences that we
like we're going to take a few extra minutes today to get a
preview of the ascetic eight 2021 conference happening,
October 18th, the 20th, in Seattle, Washington, and it's
hosted by our friends at the Fido Alliance joining us today.
A again is and Russia are. He's the executive director of
the fight Alliance to tell us what that is all about.
Welcome back Andrew Chef Jim great to be here.
Thank you. Yeah, thanks so much for joining
us and it's been a while since we talked.
The last time we talked was August, 20th of actually August
in 2020. What's new with Fido since then?
First of all, that feels like two years ago.
So it's a quite a bit has happened.
I'll try to be succinct. You know, in general, in a photo
continues to make progress on advancing, our specifications
and related outputs our goals again to have a robust robust
set of standards that anyone could deploy to enable simpler
stronger, user authentication, helping move the market place in
the world from being dependent on dependent on passwords to a
world. That's more decentralized nature
that leverages user-friendly public key cryptography.
So basically I'm from knowledge-based authentication
to possession based authentication a couple key
things. We've done one, big release that
we had was an update to the Fido to Specs that introduced a lot
of Enterprise features which are very important and also some
some added functionality for payments and things like that.
Another key thing that got completed where ux guidelines so
user experience guidelines. At the end the day you know
going to a password this world will be easier but getting
people to go pass for this turns out to be more nuanced and one
would think so answering questions, like, well, how do I
get my customers to enroll a desktop platform, authenticator
like a Touch ID on a MacBook, or Windows low on Windows machine.
There's a lot of subtle things that go into that.
So we with the help of, you know, ux leads from companies,
such as Microsoft, P Morgan Chase into it Wells, Fargo and
many many more Visa ran, a study that had three rounds of user
testing to understand. Exactly what makes consumers,
most likely to enroll for Fido authentication.
And we took these learnings and built a set of guidelines around
it, which any relying party or service writer can use to most
effectively Implement Fido on their websites.
So we're super excited. Excited about that.
We release those couple months ago, I've had some positive
feedback so far and we think it's going to really help
accelerate adoption fight off an occasion.
And beyond that you were seeing broader commitment to fighting
the marketplace more and more big Brands, deploying Fido added
government endorsements including here in the US.
You know, just the other week, AWS, or Amazon announced that
any delay has customer will be provided with Fido security
keys, to make sure that those Network administrators are
securely accessing those resources.
So, we're seeing a more and more major, you know, kind of
Milestones like that. That as we all collectively work
to create a safer internet. Andrew, Jeff mentioned that the
authenticate 2021 conference is in Seattle Washington.
It's starting on October 18th. My question for you is, who's
this conference for who should attend?
Yeah, you know we introduced authenticate last year actually
as a means to just really engage with it.
That the broader Community, we traditionally have had member
meetings in 34 member meetings a year and would hold the public.
Seminar the day before. And those are so popular both
from attendees. And from our members, that we
decided to expand upon this format and aim to provide
educational resources, to anyone interested in phyto.
But in particular, you know, product leads and strategists
60's. And those in the Cisco office,
technology leads developers. Really anyone is interested in
learning how to improve the way that they're authenticating.
Deploying authentication inside the Enterprise and also
externally to Consumers. And so, last year, we held a
virtual event because last November had really strong
attendance and thousands of people are registered over a
two-week period. So a lot of great content and
we're super happy to build upon that by moving towards his
physical conference, this year in Seattle.
I love that tagline. Moving from knowledge-based
authentication to position based authentication on The
conference, in terms of the agenda, can you give us an
overview and talk about some of the Keynotes?
Yeah, absolutely. So our featured keynote is Bob
Lord and for those of you don't know, Bob, he's a former Chief
security officer at the DNC is the Democratic National
Committee. And before that he was a Yahoo
and Cisco. And we could probably have Bob
talked for three days. So he, yes, he has were stories
and perspectives. Security and authentication that
that are so engaging. And so Ranch, really honored to
have him come up, Seattle, to give that keynote.
Additionally, our signature sponsors from the event are
Google, Microsoft visa and yubico.
So we have Executives from each of those companies as key notes.
As well, each room has a different perspective.
Google is going to talk about Android in Microsoft.
Of course, is deeply committed to Fido and Jesus has to my
Dandy products rolling out and yubico of course, is the, you
know, the originator if I do security keys and has a lot of
learnings to share as well. So those are the six.
Those are the key notes. We have some others as well,
some kind of industry luminary, speaking on the main stage and
then the format of the event itself, is you part main stage
/, keynote presentations, and then multitrack and will
generally have one track dedicated to kind of deeper,
technical insights. One track focused on case
studies kind of market adoption type Trends and both to are
chock-full of interesting content that I think people will
learn a lot from when they attend Jeff and I will be in
attendance as well. Were presenting a presentation
called smart. I am to help prevent ransomware
risk, it's just looking over the agenda, I think there's a ton of
great information out there, you know, obviously I wanted you to
help, keep it high level and focus on the Keynotes.
But if people want to understand more about what they could learn
and what the different presentations are going to be
during the conference, where can they go to get that information?
Do you have a website? Yeah, absolutely.
We have the full agenda on our website, authentic authenticate
com.com authenticate conference authenticate com.com I can see
the full agenda, just a couple more highlights if I could, you
know, case studies were always quite popular and it will
anecdote on this We did call for papers you have two.
Three, two, two and a half three day conference are two tracks.
I'll told they had around 35 open spots and we had many fold
that in submitted applications including your own.
And so we have a program Committee of Industry,
luminaries who helped me narrow it down to the selected selected
sessions that we do have. But the case studies are always
one of my favorite. Things to see coming in there,
unsolicited, we have Case studies from groups like Morgan.
Stanley, Capital One, Target, eBay.
Verizon Wayfarer the US National Guard, Facebook, and many more.
So I've always heard from our community that they like
learning from others who have already done the same.
And, you know, this case to case studies are an excellent
foundation for them. Yeah, I'm looking forward to
catching those as well, you know, wouldn't be a conference
conversation in 2021 without talking about covid.
It's clearly had an impact on things like in person,
attendance for things. This, how are you preparing for
that? And what about things like you
know vaccinations and statuses and things like that?
You know, I think all of us who in the past have attended
conferences, miss that human interaction, and is very
important to Fido Alliance. So to execute on this
conference, I personally attended identifiers back in
June and that's always my favorite identity, show to go
to, and it was wonderful as a smaller subset of people than
usually attend that conference. But being able to chat with
people in the hallways, He's after my talks after booze, you
know, you find so much hidden value through those
conversations that frankly just wouldn't happen over resume.
So with that in mind, with our commitment to having this event,
we absolutely are also committed to having it be perfectly safe
as safe as possible. That's perfect.
Um and so requiring vaccination, right?
So your to attend, you must be vaccinated, we have the policy
detail on the website but in short now we're going to be
using the clear out I was just also been used for other events
and attendees will be asked to upload their proof of
vaccination into the app. There's a simple health
screening on the app is done, the day of registration to test
the fact that you have been healthy addition to your
vaccination. In addition to that it will be
adhering to all federal and local Health guidelines.
So you know, I'm very confident that we're going to have a very
Safe and healthy event. I've had very positive feedback
on the vaccination requirement. I've been told by several people
that's helped them internally tell their management that not
only do I want to go to, this is safe for me to attend and I hope
that many people find that to be the case or able to come have a
very robust event. You, most of stuff will happen
on site at the hotel, which also has her own hygiene regimen, but
I also want to plug and we have a great social event.
Night at the mo pop Museum. This is the Museum of pop
culture used to be the Jimi Hendrix Museum, awesome, venue,
and Seattle, the, so, we have a really good event to cap things
off on Wednesday evening. It sounds like a lot of fun and
I'm glad that, you know, the precautions being taken, I can
certainly attest to the Clear app and the digital vaccine
card. I've done it, it's easy.
Yeah, you take a picture youth indicate, so I'm happy to see
that a senate conference is using good authentication.
Yeah, for that sort of thing. A heater on dog food.
Exactly. So I'm going to go ahead and
wrap up this conversation. We get someone in to kind of
keep it brief and kind of get the word out for folks, who
might be interested again, it's the authentic 8 2021 conference,
it's October 18th to the 20th in Seattle.
Washington, it's in person or virtual.
You can visit a Theta, Kate con.com for more info and if
you're interested in learning more about the fight Alliance,
you can visit Fido Alliance dot-org.
It can also go into the Wayback machine and listen to episode 56
of this podcast where we first met with Andrew and kind of
learn more about what Fido does Jim mentioned.
He and I are going to be are planning on being on site there
and delivering our presentation. So we hope to see everyone there
either in person or virtually and with that we're going to go
ahead and close out this brief conversation.
Thank you so much. Andrew looking forward to
getting a fist bump in. Finally, in person at a
conference, it'll be my first since this kind of all started
but I will go ahead and leave it there.
Thanks for listening and we hope to see you in a few weeks.
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