Dave Lewis - Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?

Presented on Thursday 14th September 2023 at 44CON 2023

Digital identities have evolved from the proverbial audible challenge that was called from the castle gates, “Who goes there?” There was little to be able to discern the validity of the identities provided. Jumping through time to 1962 we saw the advent of the password protected system. We were still in a state of being unable to verify the user identity of the password. Moving to biometrics, multi-factor authentication and passwordless technology has demonstrated that tools to authenticate digital identities are improving. When we factor nefarious technologies such as deep fakes and conversely future looking technology such as DNA data storage, we see that the need for governments to take the lead on digital identities is of paramount importance.

Dave Lewis:
Dave has 30 years of industry experience. He has extensive experience in IT security operations and management. Dave is a Global Advisory CISO for Cisco. He is the founder of the security site Liquidmatrix Security Digest & podcast as well as the host of DuoTV and the Plaintext podcast. 

He is currently a member of the board of directors for BSides Las Vegas. Previously he served on the board of directors for (ISC)2 as well as being a founder of BSides Toronto conference. Dave has been a DEF CON speaker operations goon for over 10 years. Lewis also serves on the advisory board for the Black Hat Sector Security Conference and the CFP review board for 44CON. He is currently working towards his graduate degree at Harvard. Dave has previously written columns for Forbes, CSO Online, Dark Reading, Huffington Post, The Daily Swig, and others. 

For fun, he is a curator of small mammals (his kids) plays bass guitar, grills, and is part owner of a whisky distillery as well as a soccer team.

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