the Fraudian Slip Podcast: Enacting Best Practices is Vital to the Future of Identity

The IDSA shares with the ITRC in the newest Fraudian Slip podcast exploring identity management & the future of identity

• This week, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) celebrated Identity Management Day, hosted by the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA). The day raised awareness on the importance of identity management, securing digital identities and sharing best practices to help organizations and consumers.
• The ITRC sat down with the IDSA to discuss how identity management has changed, the future of identity, how identity crimes are changing and much more.
• To learn more, listen to this week’s episode of The Fraudian Slip.
• You can also learn more about the identity-related crimes discussed in the podcast and how to protect yourself from identity fraud and compromises by visiting the ITRC’s website.
• If you think you are the victim of an identity crime or your identity has been compromised, you can call us, chat live online, send an email or leave a voice mail for an expert advisor to get advice on how to respond. Just visit www.idtheftcenter.org to get started.

Below is a transcript of our podcast with special guest Julie Smith, Executive Director of the Identity Defined Security Alliance

Welcome to The Fraudian Slip, the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) podcast, where we talk about all-things identity compromise, crime and fraud that impact people and businesses.

This month, April, we’re going to talk about one of the hottest topics in the world of cybersecurity, privacy and identity. Namely, the shift from what we think of as traditional identity theft to what is increasingly more common today – identity-based fraud.

As more organizations analyze their 2020 data and information from the first three months of 2021, there is a common theme. Cybercriminals are less interested in mass attacks seeking to scoop up as much information as possible about consumers. Instead, data thieves are focusing on attacking organizations where they can hold data for ransom, or where an attack against a single company can yield information from all the customers who rely on the breached business.

At the core of many of these attacks are identity credentials, little pieces of information that once upon a time was pretty much limited to your driver’s license, Social Security number and occasionally your mother’s maiden name. Today, identity credentials are everything from your login and password, which is more valuable than your credit card information to a cybercriminal, to the location where you use your smartphone.

The complexity of identity today makes it simultaneously more difficult to protect your identity while also making it easier to prove you are who you say you are.

This week we celebrated Identity Management Day to raise awareness of the importance of identity management, securing digital identities and sharing best practices to help organizations and consumers. Be Identity Smart.

Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) hosted the day.

We talked with Executive Director of IDSA Julie Smith about the following:

• The IDSA, its members, and issues
• How identity management has changed
• A businesses role in managing and protecting consumer identities; the most important actions to take
• The future of identity

We also talked with ITRC CEO Eva Velasquez about the following:

• How identity crimes are changing
• Consumer self-management and protection; the most important actions to take
• The future of identity

For answers to all of these questions, listen to this week’s episode of The Fraudian Slip Podcast.

Contact the ITRC or IDSA

You can learn more about data privacy, cybersecurity, the future of identity and other identity-related issues by visiting the ITRC’s website www.idtheftcenter.org. If you want to learn more about the IDSA and its work, you can visit www.idsalliance.org.

If you have questions about how to protect your personal information, or if you believe you have been the victim of an identity crime or compromise, talk to one of our expert advisers on the phone (888.400.5530), by live-chat or by email during normal business hours (6 a.m.-5 p.m. PST). Just visit www.idtheftcenter.org to get started.

Be sure and join us next week for our Weekly Breach Breakdown podcast and next month for another episode of The Fraudian Slip.