Articles By Abbie Barbir & Kim Hamilton

Abbie Barbir, LD Dir, Security Engineering, CVS Health, serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of identity management, mobile devices and authentication. Abbie has extensive experience in identity and access management. Abbie is the co-founder of ADI Association. He has worked with many standard organizations on developing next generation authentication technologies and is member of the FIDO Board of Directors. Barbir holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Louisiana State University. In his more than 25 years in the software and security industry, he has been a Professor of Computer Science, an Application Developer, Data Compression and Encryption Inventor, Systems Architect, Security Architect, Engineering Manager, Consultant, Author and Inventor of numerous security algorithms and articles. Kim Hamilton is the Director of Identity and Standards at Centre Consortium, where she leads Verite, a decentralized identity standard and set of solutions for finance. Kim had numerous leadership roles in decentralized identity space, including W3C Credentials Community Group Co-Chair, a Decentralized Identity Foundation SC member, and Rebooting Web of Trust board member. Kim currently leads the World Economic Forum Digital Identity Technical Working Group.