Making Data Better
Making Data Better is a podcast about data quality and the impact it has on how we protect, manage, and use the digital data critical to our lives. Through conversation and examination, George Peabody and Stephen Wilson look at data's role in risk management, at use cases like identification, lending, age verification, healthcare, and more personal concerns. Privacy and data ownership are topics, as are our data failures.
Episodes
16 episodes
EP16: Data, Governance, and Public Service: Ian Oppermann
The focus of computer technology historically has been on the manipulation and communication of data and information. Yes, there’s always been the monstrously obvious admonition of “garbage in, garbage out” when speaking of data. But as our dep...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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39:52
EP15: Money in the Metaverse with Dave Birch
Dave Birch is an authority and an ambassador for identity systems. And a great conversationalist. With co-author Victoria Ric...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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39:15
EP14: Steve Wilson on NAB Digital Next Podcast
Lockstep's Steve Wilson just appeared on the NAB Digital Next podcast with host Alysia Abeyratne. NAB has kindly allowed Making Data Better to repost the podcast here.If you want to understand how to untangle the knots we’ve tied around...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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28:50
EP13: The Future of the Cloud: Confidential Computing with Mike Bursell
How do we protect data while it’s actually in use? And how can we prove it?Up until now, that’s been nearly impossible. We’ve addressed securing data in flight and at rest. When done right, they are strong protections. But what about wh...
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32:38
EP12: Our Quick Hit on How Hard Security Deployment Really Is
In this Making Data Better episode, Steve and George discuss the multiple challenges of making better security approaches available and, critically, used by relying parties and suppliers. This is a hugely non-trivial problem. Funct...
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Episode 12
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15:59
EP11: The Internet Bends Toward Privacy: Michelle Finneran Dennedy, PrivacyCode
Privacy has been a major casualty of the Internet. Twenty five years ago Silicon Valley leading light, Sun’s CEO Scott McNealy said we “have zero privacy. Get over it.” And that has been the truth ever since and the profits basis for AdTech beh...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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45:42
EP10: The Key Role of the Data Provider - Cindy Printer, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
A key actor in risk assessment is the data provider. These commercial operations aggregate and analyze the data produced by governments, enterprises, individuals, and even other data providers. All to feed today’s insatiable appetite for unders...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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33:38
EP9: The Bigger Step: Want a Single Digital ID?
In this quick take, Steve and George discuss the idea of a single digital ID through a review of the proposed bill currently in front of Australian legislators. We being by comparing that approach to two very different models: India's Aadhaar p...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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14:03
EP8: A Big Little Step: Australia Shifts from Digital Identity to Digital ID
Australia's online security community - government, banking, and providers - has made a major, deliberate move. Over the last year, the term "digital identity" has been replaced by "digital ID" in government and industry publications and press ...
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16:02
EP7: Confidential Computing: Protecting Data and Code in Use
Data provides the basis for how we make decisions. An enemy of security these days, from our point of view, is plain text. We need better than that. We need device-assisted support for proving where data comes from and how it's been handled. We...
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37:47
EP6: Building a Credential Management Platform: So Many Stakeholders, So Many Use Cases
Credential sharing is complex and exciting. Take a listen to our guest, Dan Stemp from JNCTN, in this installment of Making Data Better. We discuss JNCTN's credential sharing platform and its major use cases. Discover how managing ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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34:49
EP5: Navigating digital ID: The role of government
Ever wondered about government's role in online identification and how it could expand to help our digital economy function better and safer? Or how government data quality directly impacts risk assessment? In this episode of
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Episode 5
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41:09
EP4: Redemption after data disaster: Heartland Payments breach spurs card data innovation
In October 2008 Heartland Payment Systems discovered it had been breached. Albert Gonzalez and several other individuals hacked their way through an external company website using SQL injection — an attack that too often still works — to the co...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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43:52
EP3: Data in our digital lives: Many moving parts | 02
Self-sovereign identity, digital wallets, risk management, federated identity, and a recap of the Identiverse 2023 conference are among the topics discussed in this episode of Making Data Better. George and Steve complete their landscape view o...
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Episode 2
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25:04