SSI Orbit Podcast
Problems Worth Solving in SSI Land (with Daniel Hardman)
By Christine Martin
April 22, 2024

🎥 Watch this Episode on YouTube 🎥
🎧   Listen to this Episode On Spotify   🎧
🎧   Listen to this Episode On Apple Podcasts   🎧

About Podcast Episode

Is there truly a clear separation between personal and organizational identity? This fundamental question lies at the heart of our most recent conversation on The SSI Orbit podcast between host Mathieu Glaude and identity expert Daniel Hardman.

In this conversation, you’ll learn:

  • Why the traditional separation of personal and organizational identity is a flawed mental model that limits our understanding of identity
  • The importance of recognizing the intertwined nature of individual and organizational identities in the enterprise context
  • Strategies for managing the complexities of roles, relationships, and identity facets within organizations
  • Insights into empowering individuals and enabling trust through effective identity management approaches
  • Perspectives on key challenges like managing identifiers, versioning, and building trust within self-sovereign identity systems

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights and expand your knowledge. Tune in now and start exploring the possibilities!

Key Insights:

  • The limitations of the term “governance” in identity systems and the need for a more empowering, user-centric approach
  • The inextricable link between personal and organizational identity, and the importance of understanding roles, relationships, and context
  • The challenge of managing the proliferation of identifiers and the need for software-driven solutions to help users navigate them
  • The critical role of versioning and historical record-keeping in identity management, especially when analyzing trust and accountability

Strategies:

  • Leveraging the “who, role, and context” framework to better manage identities and their associated aliases
  • Exploring the use of versioning and metadata to track the evolution of identities over time
  • Developing software that helps users understand and manage their identifiers, rather than relying solely on credentials or wallets

Chapters:

  • 00:00 Introduction and Learnings in SSI
  • 03:01 Reframing Governance as Empowerment
  • 08:42 The Intertangled Nature of Organizational and Individual Identity
  • 15:30 Managing Relationships and Roles in Organizational Identity
  • 25:19 Versioning and Trust in Organizational Identity

Additional resources:


About Guest

Daniel Hardman is the CTO and CISO at Provenant and a Hyperledger Global Ambassador. With an M.A. in computational linguistics, an M.B.A., and a cybersecurity specialization, he brings multidisciplinary expertise to the identity space. Hardman has worked in research at the intersection of cybersecurity and machine learning, led development teams in enterprise software, and is a prominent contributor to several key specifications driving self-sovereign identity, including the Hyperledger Aries RFCs, W3C’s Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Identifiers. His diverse background and deep involvement in shaping industry standards offer unique perspectives on the complexities of identity management, especially within organizational contexts.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danielhardman/

 

Related Episodes

The United Nations Transparency Protocol (with Steve Capell)

The United Nations Transparency Protocol (with Steve Capell)

🎥 Watch this Episode on YouTube 🎥🎧   Listen to this Episode On Spotify   🎧🎧   Listen to this Episode On Apple Podcasts   🎧 About Podcast Episode Are you confident in the environmental and social claims about your products? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast,...

The Global Acceptance Network (GAN) (with Darrell O’Donnell)

The Global Acceptance Network (GAN) (with Darrell O’Donnell)

🎥 Watch this Episode on YouTube 🎥🎧   Listen to this Episode On Spotify   🎧🎧   Listen to this Episode On Apple Podcasts   🎧 About Podcast Episode What if there was a way to establish a new trust layer for the internet, enabling secure digital interactions and unlocking...

Want to Be a Guest?

Come Onto the Show

Stay Connected to Get The Latest Podcast Alerts

Introducing our groundbreaking Trust Registry platform

The ultimate solution for forging resilient trust ecosystems in today's digital landscape.

Trust Registry

Products

 

Orbit Enterprise

Establish your own trusted digital interactions ecosystem with your customers, partners and suppliers

Orbit Edge Wallet

Hold and manage issued verifiable credentials securely and in a privacy-preserving way

Orbit Trust Registry

Empower your organization to establish credibility, verify identities, and foster secure interactions with confidence and ease.

Updates

 

Product Updates

Solutions

Verified Person

Receive a verifiable credential from Northern Block

OpenID4VC

Try our new OpenID4VC demo

Energy and Mines Digital Trust

Organizational Wallet and Credentials

Receive, store and exchange organizational credentials within your ecosystem

 

 

 

Resources

 

SSI Orbit Podcast

Self-sovereign Identity, Decentralization and Digital Trust

Blog

Insights and News from the Forefront of Self-sovereign Identity

Latest Content

 

The United Nations Transparency Protocol (with Steve Capell)

The United Nations Transparency Protocol (with Steve Capell)

🎥 Watch this Episode on YouTube 🎥🎧   Listen to this Episode On Spotify   🎧🎧   Listen to this Episode On Apple Podcasts   🎧 About Podcast Episode Are you confident in the environmental and social claims about your products? In this episode of The SSI Orbit Podcast,...

read more