Diego Zavala discusses how digital credentials can replace physical IDs, limit the data businesses hold, and close the gaps that passkeys leave open.
Last month, scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses were allegedly leaked and offered for sale on cybercrime forums, leaving cybersecurity professionals globally wondering whether there’s a better way of securing identities.
In this episode of the Expert Insights Podcast, Diego Zavala, Director of Ecosystem Development at the FIDO Alliance, argues that there is.
Zavala explains why FIDO set up its Digital Credentials Working Group and what it’s working on, and discusses the main challenge when it comes to widespread adoption: trust. Users need to trust their wallets, and organizations need to trust the credentials that users present. He also covers what FIDO is doing to build that trust, and why adoption should move faster than passkeys did.
Tune in to learn:
How selective disclosure lets users share only the data that a verifier needs
How digital credentials stop issuers tracking where a credential is used
How digital credentials counter deepfakes in onboarding and account recovery
Why adoption should take a couple of years, not a decade like passkeys
What businesses can do now to prepare for that change, from purging stored ID scans to preparing for mobile driver’s licenses
