Making Identity Easy for Everyone, with Heather Flanagan, Spherical Cow Consulting – Podcast Episode 74

Let's talk about digital identity with Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting. In episode 74, Heather Flanagan discusses making identity easy for everyone – how to explain digital identity to people outside of the identity industry, why is it important for everyone to understand, and how the industry can help to improve the understanding of identity for everyone. "If you talk to any identity professional, they will agree that passwords are one of the biggest, possibly the biggest challenge facing the industry. So how are we solving it?" Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting and choreographer for Identity Flash Mob, comes from a position that the Internet is led by people, powered by words, and inspired by technology. She has been involved in leadership roles with some of the most technical, volunteer-driven organisations on the Internet, including IDPro as Principal Editor, the IETF, the IAB, and the IRTF as RFC Series Editor, ICANN as Technical Writer, and REFEDS as Coordinator, just to name a few. If there is work going on to develop new Internet standards, or discussions around the future of digital identity, she is interested in engaging in that work. Connect with Heather on LinkedIn. We’ll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure!