Introduction

André Kudra is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at esatus AG, a Germany-based company many many strides in the SSI space. André has many years of experience in Identity & Access, Governance, Risk & Compliance and IT-Sec.

More recently, André has taken many active roles across various Self-sovereign Identity communities including the Trust over IP Foundation, The Sovrin Foundation, IDUnion and more.

In this conversation, we discuss SSI from an InfoSec context, replacing passwords with verifiable credentials, integrating into existing enterprise IAM systems, complementing the Zero Trust frameworks, low hanging fruits for enterprises to adopt SSI today and finally some talk about how the German ecosystem is prioritizing SSI as a National strategy.

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Check out this podcast episode on the Northern Block website with full transcription: https://northernblock.io/ssi-for-identity-access-management-iam/