Cardano Academy Course: Future-Proof Your Enterprise Identity

On the philosophical front, I believe the less attached you are to your identity, the happier you'll be. On the realistic, everyday life front, you have to prove little bits and pieces of and about yourself all the time! You need a passport to travel, an ID to get into your office, and role permissions to access the right tools and documents. Validating details about who we are and skills others have attested we hold is how we build trust EVERYWHERE. And of course, nowadays, we do most of that online. Unfortunately, the systems with which we do all this authentication are fundamentally broken. It's convenient to use your SSO (Single Sign-On) everywhere, but if your Facebook account gets hacked, that's a lot of data going into a single malicious actor's pocket. Decentralized identity systems have the potential to make identity on the web better for everyone: individuals, businesses, and third-party verifiers. In this new course, we're taking a look at how identity verification worked historically ("I've never seen you in this neighborhood...") and how it works today. We're screening the challenges—AI, honey pots, quantum computing—and introducing a new solution: Veridian, built by the Cardano Foundation. We're talking about use cases, what the tech looks like, and how the world will benefit from better identity solutions—all in 35 minutes. Best of all, you'll get to spend time with the mastermind behind it all, Thomas A. Mayfield, who recorded and narrated all the footage. Also comes with highly customized animations designed with a completely new in-house, AI-supported process. This was probably the hardest script I've ever written for a course. How do you break down such a complex, multi-faceted technology in a way that the course stays relevant to individuals and professionals all throughout? By consistently connecting everything to the bigger picture, I think. Have I succeeded? I hope you will tell me after checking out Trust & Digital Identity: Future-Proof Your Enterprise. ✍🏻✌🏻

The is is worth anyone’s 35 minutes. Identity is still the key for us to move forward in a digital society

A named property in an official Ethereum ERC just got adopted, credited, and shipped -- earlier this week. Days ago, in an ethereum-magicians thread on ERC-7303 (Ko Fujimura's token-controlled access-control standard), we pushed on a specific distinction: a role check binds an account to a permission class, but it can't judge whether a specific invocation is sound. That's a separate layer -- "binding first, judgment second." Ko Fujimura just merged PR #1872 into the official ERC-7303 draft. It adds a machine-detectable IERC7303 introspection interface and, in the Security Considerations, states the layering explicitly: role gating is class-level authorization; instance-level soundness (amounts, staleness, an adversarial-but-in-role instruction) belongs to a composing pre-action or policy layer. The PR text credits the exchange directly. This is exactly the primitive our own /review layer sits on for autonomous agents -- naming the seam cleanly matters more than either side "winning" a technical argument. Verified the merged diff myself before writing this, not just the summary. PR: https://lnkd.in/dyP2QB4c

🔐 Modern infrastructure changes continuously. Trust should too.  Certificates expire. Dependencies become vulnerable. Cryptographic standards evolve. Kubernetes workloads appear, move and disappear. Traditional trust management was built for slower-moving infrastructure, not for environments where change is constant and failures can quickly propagate. That’s why we built Trust Fabric. 🛡️ Built from Form3’s experience operating critical real-time payment infrastructure, Trust Fabric helps organisations continuously manage TLS certificates, automate vulnerability remediation, and prepare for post-quantum cryptography. Trust should not depend on periodic reviews and manual processes. It should be continuous. 🔗 Explore Trust Fabric: https://lnkd.in/euJfsTe7  #TrustFabric #OperationalResilience #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative 

Over the years we’ve invested heavily in tackling some really tough technical challenges running a fully distributed payment platform at huge scale. Really excited that we are beginning our journey to surface some of these capabilities to support business from any sector. I think it’s a shared responsibility, in challenging times, to all put our best foot forward with capabilities like this. Take a look and lest us know what you think!

I've already started to talk to existing customers about the challenges with distributed infrastructure of certificate management, automating vulnerabilities and Post-Quantum Cryptography. It's clear that there is a problem - modern infrastructure changes continually and failures can quickly propagate. Traditional trust management was built for slower-moving infrastructure. A new approach is needed.

Modern infrastructure moves fast. Security has to move just as fast. Trust Fabric is a great example of how continuous trust management can help organizations stay resilient while reducing operational complexity. Excited to see the innovation coming from the team.

For years, we've treated trust as something we establish. Deploy the infrastructure. Issue the certificates. Complete the audit. Move on. But modern infrastructure doesn't work that way anymore. Certificates expire. Dependencies become vulnerable. Cryptographic standards evolve. Kubernetes workloads are constantly created, moved and retired. Infrastructure changes continuously. Trust should too. At Form3, we've spent years operating cloud-native, real-time payment infrastructure where resilience and security can't rely on periodic reviews or manual intervention. That experience led us to build Trust Fabric. Trust Fabric continuously manages machine identity, automates TLS certificate lifecycle management, helps remediate vulnerabilities faster, and prepares organisations for the transition to post-quantum cryptography. Because in modern infrastructure, trust isn't a point-in-time activity. It's a continuous capability. #CyberSecurity #CloudNative #Payments #PlatformEngineering #PKI #MachineIdentity #PostQuantumCryptography #TrustFabric

Quantum used to be a research topic. Not anymore. Across the ONUG community, I'm hearing more enterprise leaders ask the same question. Are we ready for post-quantum cryptography? Most organizations are still figuring out what that transition looks like. That's why we formed the ONUG Quantum-Ready Enterprise Advisory Board. It brings together enterprise operators, infrastructure providers, and quantum experts with one purpose. Guidance, not governance. We're focused on the practical questions. What are the real enterprise risks? Which technologies, vendors, and standards deserve attention now? What does a practical PQC migration roadmap look like? And lastly the Board will have a particular focus on the growing set of requirements facing enterprises that connect to U.S. federal government systems, where post-quantum cryptography compliance is fast becoming a baseline expectation. 🔗 Read the full announcement to learn more about what we're building: https://hubs.li/Q04nWXtl0

The countdown to 47-day SSL certificates has begun. Are you ready for what Google, Apple, and the CA/B Forum have set in motion? This isn't just about shorter validity periods—it's about building a crypto-agile foundation for the future. When post-quantum cryptography becomes necessary, organizations with automated certificate management will adapt seamlessly. Those relying on spreadsheets will face a crisis. AppViewX's Resource Hub gives you the clarity and tools to succeed: → Assessment frameworks and maturity models → Real ROI data from enterprise deployments → Expert webinars on PQC readiness → Free certificate scanning to understand your current state Turn regulatory pressure into competitive advantage: https://lnkd.in/epp39Usz #ssl #tls #47day #certificate #automation #pki #clm #cryptoagility #pqc #certificate #expiry #resourcehub