
State of Identity Podcast Series by Liminal
Welcome to the State of Identity, the leading podcast in the digital identity industry! Host Cameron D’Ambrosi, and the team at Liminal, invite you to join an enlightening and engaging conversation about digital identity, its technologies, and the ever-evolving paradigms that shape our world today.
Through candid discussions with the industry’s greatest minds, Liminal explores the most pressing topics in digital identity, cybersecurity, and Fintech, from cutting-edge technologies and innovative companies to the individuals defining our digital landscape. Discover how the digital identity landscape transforms how we live, work, and interact with the world around us.
So whether you’re a senior executive building a company, a tech enthusiast, an industry professional, or simply curious about the future of digital identity, tune in to the State of Identity and join the conversation shaping our world today and tomorrow.
Latest episodes

Oct 7, 2021 • 40min
Deep Tech Revolution
Will technology help save humanity or accelerate our demise? Listen in as host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, discusses with Guy Perelmuter, the Author of Present Future: Business, Science, and the Deep Tech Revolution and Founder of GRIDS Capital, to unwrap the evolution of cryptocurrencies and what that means for the future of money, how global supply chains change with AI, 3D printing, robotics, and blockchain technologies, and how a new “social score” may come into existence.

Sep 30, 2021 • 32min
Biometric Identity Proofing & Orchestration
Building a digital identity platform from scratch in the “unbanked” population of the South African market poses significant challenges. The need for frictionless,customer-centric solutions, however, is not unique to any one geography, industry, or use case. In this week’s State of Identity podcast, host, Cameron D’Ambrosi is joined by Shaun Strydom, Founder, Executive Head, and Identity Futurologist at Contactable to discuss the race for digital identity orchestration and federation. They go beyond the bells and whistles of biometrics and verification solutions and reveal how fully orchestrated onboarding solves for organizational complexities when servicing customer journeys digitally.

Sep 23, 2021 • 22min
Going Green: Tech-Enabled Reforestation
In an effort to mitigate climate change, technology, and data-driven intelligence are playing a critical factor in large-scale reforestation before it becomes a climate catastrophe. In this week's State of Identity podcast, join host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, and Arnout Asjes, CTO of the Land Life Company, as we discuss how the identity of things expands to agro-ecological use cases. From terrestrial monitoring apps and drones to machine learning algorithms incorporating satellite data, tech-driven reforestation projects are built with continuous feedback loops, helping our planet help mitigate climate change for the long haul.

Sep 16, 2021 • 30min
Intensity Analytics: Software Programs with Internally-engineered ML & AI Techniques
What if we could go beyond a fingerprint to establish behaviors, mannerisms, and motor movements that make you uniquely you? In this week's State of Identity podcast, host, Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Jonathan Nystrom, CEO of Intensity Analytics, to discuss the geospatial, multidimensional routines that comprise behavioral biometrics. Learn how machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques are being adopted as the next wave of frictionless authentication to compare previous behavior to current behavior, all to sufficiently identify that you're you.

Sep 9, 2021 • 33min
MX: Modern Connectivity & Open Finance
Authentication solutions within financial institutions are still in disarray; however, there are intelligent, personalized digital experiences that are powering how the world connects, moves, and interacts with money. Join host Cameron D'Ambrosi and David Whitcomb, VP of Product Connectivity Experience at MX as we sit down to tackle the history behind open finance, where we are today, how fintechs know their customers with access to better data, and the power of open source technology.

Aug 26, 2021 • 37min
Nok Nok Labs: FIDO-Compliance SCA Solution
Join host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, and Walter Beisheim, Chief Business Development Officer of Nok Nok Labs as they discuss fraud mitigation use cases including account takeover prevention and payments authentication. They address the benefits of a FIDO-compliant Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) solution and debunk the major myths around the adoption of SCA, the perceived friction that it imposes on your customers, and its impact on your business.

Aug 19, 2021 • 31min
FingerprintJS: Fraud at the Source
Fingerprinting technology is the backbone of most major fraud detection solutions. It identifies unique visitors and associated sessions, undeterred by incognito browsing, VPNs, cookie blockers, and other technologies used to anonymize fraudulent actors online. Join host Cameron D'Ambrosi and Dan Pinto, CEO of FingerprintJS as they discuss the power of browser fingerprinting as a service and how browser-driven identifiers can complement anti-fraud solutions with up to 99.5% accuracy. They tackle the benefits of first-party tracking and what's next in anti-fraud solutions.

Aug 12, 2021 • 31min
Berbix: Building Trust Online
When designing automating customer onboarding flows, one of the most critical failure points is maintaining a well-designed consumer-facing user experience. When verifying new customers, is there a trade-off to maximize both pass rates and accuracy? Is the trade-off real or perceived? On this week's State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi is joined by Steve Kirkham, Co-Founder at Berbix to discuss the P0 requirements for the next generation of technologies to verify new users both instantly and accurately.

Aug 5, 2021 • 27min
Prove: The Identity Lifecycle
The key to scaling digital identity solutions is to 'think global, act local.' How do we implement digital identity frameworks to ensure trust between transaction parties? How do we account for regional discrepancies including cultural nuances around consumer data privacy and consent? Join Cameron D'Ambrosi, host of State of Identity, and Michael Lynch, Chief Strategy Officer at Prove as they explore data solutions across the identity lifecycle, from creation and verification through authentication and authorization. You'll also learn how organizations are streamlining operations to remove friction, enable commerce, and detect potential fraud using a modernized authentication stack and identity resolution technologies.

Jul 29, 2021 • 33min
Cloudentity: Identity Next
The identity industry is evolving. Once a niche field that very few people understood, digital identity is now a strategic piece in every organization's security architecture. Organizations are successfully breaking away from monolithic, legacy systems yet one key challenge that remains is building user-centric security solutions. To build centralized authorization in an increasingly decentralized world, identity data needs to be dynamic and easily adaptable — without changing a single line of code. Join host Cameron D'Ambrosi and Director of Strategic Alliances at Cloudentity David Lee as they pave way for the next realm of "identity 3.0" and break down open data, the adoption of new identity standards, and active governance systems across the organization.