Jeremy Grant
- Established and led NSTIC, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, at NIST
- Built what became NIST's Trusted Identities Group
- Coordinates the Better Identity Coalition, launched 2018
Bio
Jeremy Grant established and led NSTIC at NIST, the first new cybersecurity programme of the Obama administration, and built what became NIST's Trusted Identities Group. He now coordinates the Better Identity Coalition and works on identity policy at Venable, and has testified repeatedly before Congress on identity verification.
Profile built from public government, congressional, and employer records.
Where their work shows up
The American identity problem is structural: there is no national identity system, so the private sector verifies people against credentials issued by states and federal agencies that were never designed to be checked digitally. Most of the fraud in that gap is a policy failure rather than a technology one. His work is the long argument for giving authoritative issuers a way to attest digitally. See identity verification vendors, the regulations hub, and digital IDs by country.
Related on Start with Identity
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