Digital Identity Friday Five: August 23, 2024
Covering the most interesting news for the week of August 17 to August 23
Today is Friday, August 23. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
1/ Socure Promotes Digital Identity Leader Matthew Thompson to Chief Revenue Officer
Socure announced the promotion of Matt Thompson to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) from Senior Vice President and GM of its public sector business
Thompson joined Socure three years ago to lead the company's expansion into the public sector market
"In life, you back your winners. You back the people who exceed your expectations, exhibit a high level of integrity, energy, determination and give you as a leader leverage." said Founder & CEO Johnny Ayers
Congrats, Matt!
2/ Former Deputy Commissioner of New York State DMV Joins FaceTec, Inc.
According to its press release, Owen McShane, retired Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, has joined Facetec as VP of Government Relations
"Owen's experience on the front lines fighting complex identity theft cases and his work with identity issuers will allow FaceTec to tailor our software to help solve these specific problems in the U.S. and abroad," said Kevin Alan Tussy, Facetec’s CEO
3/ Liminal publishes its 2024 Landscape
Liminal released the 2024 version of its pioneering digital identity landscape
New this year - the landscape goes interactive!
The 2024 Liminal Landscape is available in their competitive intelligence & market intelligence platform, Link™ by Liminal
#marketresearch #competitive #g2
4/ Constella Intelligence: Verifying the National Public Data Breach
The National Public Database (NPD) #databreach made national headlines last week
Contella’s CIO Julio Casal published a blog post analyzing the impact of this latest #hack which included millions of #ssns
5/ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Releases Second Public Draft of Digital Identity Guidelines for Final Review
NIST is offering updated guidance on a wide range of methods people use to prove their identity, from digital wallets & passkeys to physical IDs
NIST is accepting public comments until Oct. 7, 2024
And those are this week’s #fridayfive
*** LINKS
LIMINAL: https://liminal.co/2024-digital-identity-landscape
CONSTELLA: https://constella.ai/verifying-the-national-public-data-breach/