The ID Talk Podcast

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ID Tech's Alex Perala,Tony Bitzionis, and Dave Barclay are joined by a varied range of guest experts to discuss identity technology, biometrics, digital ID, artificial intelligence, and more.

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#346
Today · 4 min
ID Tech Daily Digest Audio Edition - Wednesday, September 30
It's time for today's edition of ID Tech's Daily Digest. Today, we bring you stories from Trident Digital Tech Holdings, Ghana Revenue Authority, IRMA Asia, Memcyco, Precise Biometrics, Fingerprint Cards, AqTronics, Facephi, Microsoft, the Central Bank of the UAE, the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, the Ministry of Finance of Finland, Amadeus, Noblis, Modulate, Future Ventures, Hyperplane, Lakestar, Prove, Synchrony, Ownera, Moca Network, Biletinial, BIO-key International, Al Majlis Group, Maktabi Tech, the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria, and the European Commission. For all of these stories and more, visit https://idtechwire.com/ For comments or feedback, reach out to tony@idtechwire.com
#345
Yesterday · 5 min
ID Tech Daily Digest Audio Edition - Tuesday, September 29
It's time for today's edition of ID Tech's Daily Digest. Today, we bring you stories from the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee, DigiCert, NVIDIA, VIDIZMO, Flock Safety, Axon, Johnson City Police Department, the New Zealand Trust Framework Authority, Westpac, Thales, Google Cloud, Entrust, MK Group, the British Transport Police, the London Underground, IDEMIA Secure Transactions, the FIDO Alliance, the City of New Haven, and UKG. For all of these stories and more, visit https://idtechwire.com/ For comments or feedback, reach out to tony@idtechwire.com
#344
Yesterday · 37 min
Securing Identity Documents Around the World, with Troy Group’s Mark Bond and Jean Cavalier
What does document security look like in an identity landscape that is rapidly moving toward digital technologies? In this episode of the ID Talk Podcast, hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala speak with Troy Group’s Jean Cavalier, Sales Engineer, and Mark Bond, Director of Sales, EMEA & APAC, about the often-overlooked physical side of identity security and the challenge of protecting critical documents from fraud. The conversation explores Troy Group’s work securing the personalized information on documents such as vital records, the role of SecureDocs and specialized printing technologies, and what Troy has learned from deployments across international markets. Cavalier and Bond also discuss the practical realities of implementing document-security infrastructure, the need to educate organizations about vulnerabilities before fraud occurs, and the challenge of building solutions that can adapt to different technological environments. Looking ahead, they consider how document security can bridge the gap between paper-based credentials and an increasingly digital identity ecosystem.
#343
Monday · 3 min
ID Tech Daily Digest Audio Edition - Monday, September 28
It's time for today's edition of ID Tech's Daily Digest. Today, we bring you stories from GMO Internet, Onamae.com, the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, Deutsche Bank, IPID, ULTRALOQ, Apple, Samsung, the State of Alabama, the Office of the Alabama Attorney General, TikTok, ByteDance, the National Database and Registration Authority of Pakistan, Neurotechnology, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. For all of these stories and more, visit https://idtechwire.com/ For comments or feedback, reach out to tony@idtechwire.com
#342
Friday · 4 min
ID Tech Daily Digest Audio Edition - Friday, September 25
It's time for today's edition of ID Tech's Daily Digest. Today, we bring you stories from the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Aylo Freesites, Pornhub, YouTube, the Delaware Department of Correction, GettingOut, NHS England, Facephi, the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada, the Datenschutzkonferenz, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Meta, Apple, EFG Hermes UAE, the Dubai Financial Market, the Dubai Central Securities Depository, GMO GlobalSign Holdings, and VESS Labs. For all of these stories and more, visit https://idtechwire.com/ For comments or feedback, reach out to tony@idtechwire.com
#341
Thursday · 4 min
ID Tech Daily Digest Audio Edition - Thursday, September 24
It's time for today's edition of ID Tech's Daily Digest. Today, we bring you stories from Ofcom, Aylo, Pornhub, Apple, Dáil Éireann, the Department of Social Protection of Ireland, Equifax, Omada, EmpowerID, the Government of Vietnam, Singapore Singpass, Laos LAeID, BIO-key, the FIDO Alliance, Tencent Cloud, Revolut, Kiss the Hippo, Oracle Health, and ID.me. For all of these stories and more, visit https://idtechwire.com/ For comments or feedback, reach out to tony@idtechwire.com
#340
September 23 · 4 min
ID Tech Daily Digest Audio Edition - Wednesday, September 23
It's time for today's edition of ID Tech's Daily Digest. Today, we bring you stories from Proof, Superfluid Finance, the FIDO Alliance, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Government of Bangladesh, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, IDScan.net, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Authsignal, Aduna, Bouygues Telecom, Okta, Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Docker, Google Cloud, Lovable, Proofpoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Wiz, Zscaler, GE Appliances, World Central Kitchen, the General Services Administration, Google, Samsung, the Alabama Department of Workforce, Discord, k-ID, Stripe, Apple, Veratad, Baselayer, M13, Torch Capital, Picus Ventures, Afore Capital, Socure, FIS, Prove, TEU, TACOM, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, NEC, and Microsoft. For all of these stories and more, visit https://idtechwire.com/ For comments or feedback, reach out to tony@idtechwire.com
#320
August 26 · 22 min
Inside the Identity Week USA 2026 Agenda with Evie Kim Sing
Evie Kim Sing, editor of IdentityWeek.net, joins ID Talk for a preview of Identity Week USA 2026, taking place in Washington, D.C. She walks through some of the biggest themes shaping this year’s event, including agentic AI, mobile driver’s licenses, digital wallets, fraud prevention, transportation security, and the growing role of identity in national security. The conversation also looks at how Identity Week is evolving as a forum for real-world pilots, deployments, and industry announcements, rather than just vendor presentations. Evie discusses the differences between the U.S. and European identity ecosystems, the importance of networking and collaboration at the event, and why AI agents and their authorization boundaries are emerging as one of the most important identity questions of the year. For more information visit https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/identity-week-america/?
#315
August 20 · 33 min
Deepfake Summit Preview with Maxine Most
Maxine Most, founder and CEO of Acuity Market Intelligence and creator of the Deepfake Summit, returns to ID Talk for a preview of the upcoming September 1 event in Arlington, Virginia. She joins hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis to discuss the thinking behind the Summit, its collaborative format, and an agenda bringing together experts from government, technology, fraud, privacy, policy, and other fields to examine the rapidly evolving challenges posed by deepfakes, synthetic identity, agentic AI, and other emerging attack vectors. The conversation also explores some of the major themes that will shape the Summit, including Max’s concept of “resilient trust,” the growing difficulty of establishing authenticity in an AI-driven environment, and the way automation is allowing fraud to operate at unprecedented scale. Max also discusses why these challenges can’t be addressed by individual technologies or isolated fraud teams, and why building effective trust infrastructure will require much greater collaboration across industries, institutions, and areas of expertise. Visit https://www.thedeepfakesummit.com/event-details/the-deepfake-summit-washington-dc-26 for more information and to register.
#304
August 5 · 36 min
Cameron D'Ambrosi on Identity in the Age of AI Agents
In this episode of the ID Talk podcast, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Cameron D’Ambrosi about the growing impact of AI agents on digital identity, security, and online trust. Cameron is FaceTec’s Head of Strategic Partnerships for North America and the European Union. His career has spanned financial regulation, KYC and AML consulting, and digital identity strategy, including his time as a founding member of Liminal and host of more than 350 episodes of the State of Identity podcast. Drawing on that experience, Cameron discusses why AI agents are creating new urgency around long-standing identity challenges. The conversation covers the emerging concept of Know Your Agent, the complicated questions of ownership and authorization that arise when agents act on behalf of people and businesses, and the risks of giving autonomous systems broad or standing permissions. The group also explores AI impersonation, zero-trust security, just-in-time access, agentic commerce, and the role biometric liveness detection could play in confirming that a real human is behind a high-risk transaction.
#289
July 15 · 29 min
Why Mobile IDs Are Still Hard to Use, with IDScan.net COO Jillian Kossman
Mobile driver's licenses are gaining momentum across the US, but turning digital credentials into something people can actually use in everyday life remains a major challenge. In this episode of the ID Talk podcast, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Jillian Kossman, COO of IDScan.net, about the fragmented mobile ID landscape, the barriers facing businesses that want to accept digital credentials, and why Louisiana has emerged as an interesting case study in mDL adoption. The conversation also explores the changing identity fraud landscape, including how criminals can exploit unfamiliarity with mobile IDs, the growing role of AI and deepfakes, and IDScan.net's observations on rising fraud in cargo and logistics, financial services, and education. Kossman explains how fake IDs are being used to steal entire truckloads of goods and how "ghost student" schemes target financial aid programs using stolen or synthetic identities. Finally, Kossman discusses one of the identity industry's persistent communications challenges: helping consumers understand why identity verification is necessary in the first place. As fraud tools become more accessible and sophisticated, she argues that stronger verification is increasingly essential to protecting consumers from impersonation and identity theft.
#283
July 8 · 16 min
Why Every Organization Needs an AI Governance Plan, with Entrust's Tony Ball
Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe, Entrust CEO Tony Ball joins ID Talk to discuss why the rise of AI agents is creating a new identity challenge for enterprises. Ball argues that organizations must think beyond authenticating people and begin establishing identities, permissions, governance and human oversight for autonomous agents. He also explains why biometrics will become increasingly important as a trust layer, why fraud has become an industrial-scale business, and how companies can prepare for an agent-driven future without sacrificing security.
#278
July 1 · 24 min
Preparing for the Mythos Era with Aware's Brian Krause
Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, this episode of ID Talk features Aware Chief Revenue Officer Brian Krause for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is reshaping the identity security landscape. As generative AI enables fraudsters to operate at unprecedented speed and scale, Krause argues that the industry's focus must shift beyond one-time identity verification toward continuous trust, agile defences, and what Aware calls "orchestration" – the ability to intelligently deploy and adapt biometric technologies across the entire customer journey. Krause also discusses why enterprises should prepare for a new era of AI-powered attacks, the growing importance of proving "humanhood" through passive liveness detection, and why he believes passwords – not biometrics – are the real source of friction in digital identity. He also shares Aware's vision for bringing cloud-style resilience to biometric security, enabling organizations to rapidly respond as fraud tactics continue to evolve.
#271
June 24 · 26 min
Identity Week Europe: Why Andrew Bud Believes Liveness Is Becoming Critical Infrastructure for AI
Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe in Amsterdam, ID Talk sits down with iProov founder and CEO Andrew Bud to discuss the evolving role of digital identity in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Bud explains why he believes proof of human presence will become foundational to the future of online trust, as AI agents take on greater responsibility for accessing services, acting on behalf of users, and making decisions in the digital world. The conversation also explores the personal story behind iProov's founding, including a fraud crisis in the mobile payments industry that convinced Bud the internet needed a better way to verify genuine human presence. He discusses the company's approach to liveness assurance, the accelerating threat posed by deepfakes and AI-enabled fraud, and why organizations across government, financial services, healthcare, and enterprise security need to rethink how they establish trust online before the next wave of attacks arrives.
#252
May 28 · 37 min
'This Is the Worst I've Ever Seen': ITRC CEO Eva Velasquez On the State of Identity Fraud
On this episode of ID Talk, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis sit down with Eva Velasquez to discuss the rapidly evolving world of identity theft, scams, cybercrime, and digital identity. Drawing on decades of experience investigating economic crime and supporting victims, Velasquez explains why identity fraud has become more personal, more scalable, and more difficult to contain in the digital era. The conversation explores how the pandemic accelerated the shift toward digital-only transactions, why fraudsters now operate within a sophisticated “fraud ecosystem,” and how AI is simultaneously empowering criminals and becoming essential to fighting them. The episode also examines the growing role of passkeys, biometrics, and digital identity systems in securing online interactions, alongside the public trust and transparency challenges surrounding those technologies. Velasquez argues that there is no “silver bullet” solution to identity crime, and calls for a more holistic approach that treats scams, fraud, cybersecurity, and identity misuse as interconnected problems rather than isolated threats. Along the way, the discussion touches on organized cybercrime, deepfake technology, consumer education, and why “identity is deeply personal” in an increasingly digital world. To learn more about the ITRC and how to help visit https://www.idtheftcenter.org/
#245
May 20 · 32 min
Delinea's Chris Kelly on Shadow AI and the New Identity Security Crisis
This week on ID Talk, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Chris Kelly, president of Delinea, about the company’s latest research into AI-driven identity security risks. The conversation explores how enterprises are struggling to govern the growing number of nonhuman identities created by AI agents, automation pipelines, service accounts and machine credentials, even as organizations express confidence in their AI readiness. Kelly explains why “prepared” and “governed” are not the same thing in cybersecurity, discusses the rise of “shadow AI” inside enterprise environments, and outlines why legacy identity management systems are increasingly strained by the speed and scale of AI adoption. The episode also examines standing access risks, least-permissive autonomy, real-time identity visibility, and what CISOs should prioritize as AI systems become deeply embedded in enterprise operations.
#240
May 13 · 34 min
How Analysts Use AI to Identify Trafficking Networks
On the latest episode of ID Talk, DeliverFund Director of Technology Ian Caltabiano joins the podcast alongside Sam Cilento of Lakota Software Solutions to discuss how identity technology and AI tools are being used to support investigations into human trafficking and online exploitation. Caltabiano explains how DeliverFund works with law enforcement agencies to analyze massive volumes of publicly available online advertising data, identify trafficking networks, and help investigators connect fragmented digital identities across jurisdictions. The conversation also explores the growing role of biometric and video-analysis tools in reducing investigative workloads and improving analyst well-being. Cilento discusses Lakota’s “Fierce” platform, which automatically extracts and clusters faces from video evidence, while Caltabiano reflects on the broader challenge of building technology that produces meaningful real-world outcomes for investigators rather than simply adding more tools to already overloaded workflows.
#234
May 6 · 35 min
Gary Jones on ROC’s Push Into Intelligent Physical Security
In this episode of ID Talk, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Gary Jones about the evolution of biometric access control and the growing role of AI in physical security systems. Jones discusses ROC’s rapid rise in the biometrics market, the company’s emphasis on independently validated performance benchmarks, and the thinking behind its new ROC Access Face 1 platform, which combines facial recognition, watch list detection, weapon detection and real-time analytics into a single security workflow. The conversation also explores the shift toward GPU-powered infrastructure, the practical realities of deploying AI-driven security systems in the field, and why ROC believes access control readers should become intelligent, always-on security sensors rather than simple authentication devices.
#228
April 29 · 29 min
Wicket’s Jeff Boehm Breaks Down Face-Gate Adoption in Sports
On this episode of the ID Talk podcast, Wicket COO Jeff Boehm joins Alex Perala, Tony Bitzionis, and Dave Barclay to talk about how facial authentication is transforming the fan experience at stadiums and live events across the country. Jeff traces Wicket’s origins back to an early partnership with the Cleveland Browns during the height of COVID, when the team needed a safer, faster way to get fans back through the gates, and explains how the company has since grown to nearly a hundred customers across professional sports leagues, conferences, and live events worldwide. The conversation covers how Wicket’s opt-in enrollment process works, what it takes to get fans to adopt new technology, and the critical distinction between facial authentication and facial recognition surveillance. Jeff also discusses the role that legal teams play as gatekeepers for new partnerships, Wicket’s integrations with ticketing and point-of-sale systems, and why the company is deliberately staying focused on sports and live events rather than chasing every possible use case.
#222
April 22 · 32 min
Why You Can’t Trust AI Agents, with SecureAuth's Geoffrey Mattson
On this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth, about the growing security risks surrounding agentic AI. As enterprises rush to deploy AI agents for coding, workflow automation, and decision-making, Mattson argues that identity security has gone from being an “NPC” in cybersecurity to having “main character energy.” From executives accidentally exposing sensitive data through vibe coding to autonomous agents making decisions no human intended, the conversation explores why companies need guardrails around what AI agents can do, not just trust in the models themselves.

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