This week Simon (David's on holiday!) took a quick peek at some interesting blog entries that appeared. Ubisecure provided some insight into hybrid cloud deployments, 1Kosmos told us more about "Identity Based Authentication" as a pillar of zero trust and Trulioo discussed how risk assessment should be a part of identity onboarding. In other news Ping Identity announced a partnership with Microsoft and Workday to work on a profile for verifiable credentials and JWT and identity based access control startup Cyolo.io announced a $60 million series B round. Finally an April article by Palo Alto's Unit 42 on cloud based threats also caught Simon's eye.