Hi! My name is Kerry Loftus and I have product marketing and management ownership for our consumer authentication product offerings. By day, I'm a dedicated VeriSign employee focusing for the last 8 years on security technologies that are valuable to our customers in helping them better secure their online interactions with customers, business partners and employees. Few would also suspect, outside of my career, I'm a dedicated wife and mother to 4 kids (two boys and two girls, ages 1 - 13 years). Yikes! By keeping my toes in both professional and day-to-day worlds, I hope to bring real-world perspective to a space that is highly technical, potentially complicated, but incredibly essential in our still emerging digital world.

We found an awesome video on YouTube: the "MiniGeek" gets his PayPal security key in the mail, and shows us as he sets it up in less than two minutes. It's child's play! (this video has been removed.)

Hi, I'm Jeff Burstein, a product manager on the VIP team.

Today is Super Tuesday, and as a California resident, I went to vote this morning in the primary election. Since this is a blog about identity and trust, let's examine what I needed today to prove my identity to vote: nothing. Do I really look that trustworthy?

I walked into my polling place, went up to the table and told the poll worker my name, which she dutifully looked up in the voter roll and crossed out. No identity check needed, no need to show my ID, check a signature, or any other form of authentication -- just the honor system. (And of course the threat of going to jail for voter fraud!)

For those of us who live and breathe identity and authentication every day this is just unnatural! Of course, there are all sorts of reasons for the lack of strong authentication for voting today, most having to do with budgets, voter turnout, the 24th amendment, and the potential for discrimination. So...