Dan Gisolfi is currently leading the delivery of innovation capabilities across Discover Financial Services (DFS), such as Hack-aaS, Patent Program, Design Thinking Services, and an Innovation Accelerator. Prior to joining DFS, he led an innovation team focused on the incubation of IBM Security’s Zero Trust Architecture in collaboration with internal labs, academic institutions and NIST.

About Podcast Episode

Some of the key topics covered during this episode with Dan are:

• How does the chicken and egg problem relate to digital identity?
• Is there a dependency on Government IDs to seed the marketplace?
• Are unique identifier databases required to become a credential issuer?
• What is transitive trust? And how does it differ from how trust gets established otherwise (e.g., through backend API calls)?
• The missing role in the trust triangle: The Examiner.
• Can Examiners become digital notaries?
• Rethinking authentication and authorization - using attestations from multiple issuers helps to create more trust.
• How Issuance can become a business model for many trusted service providers.
• Some challenges with the mDL (ISO/IEC 18013) standard.
• The benefits of using a Microcredentials approach.
• Misconceptions about becoming credential issuers (e.g., assuming liability, data minimization).

Where to find Dan?

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinomaster/
• Blogs: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/blockchain/author/dan-gisolfi/

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