Once caught up in cyber attacks to enable his gaming, David Mahdi, who now works for CIAM company, Transmit Security, has an acute awareness of the motivations driving cyber criminals and what is at stake with modern-day connectivity. The incentive is even greater because we offer more of our data and assets online. This interview divulges what companies know about digital identity, the knowledge gap around fraud and data availability.
“Identity systems were built for another time (circa 1990s)”. The paper-based identity to digital ID movement of this time rolled out applications that fitted outdated needs for workforce productivity solutions, ID directories or the cloud.