Talking Technology with NCBI Labs Episode 15 – Exploring the Auth0 Identity Provider and Highlights from Apple’s ‘Far Out’ Product Launch Event

On the show this week our attention first turns to Identity Providers (IDPs), which are used to store and verify user identity. Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect for the Identity Provider Auth0 and joins us on the show to tell how this technology works and how Auth0 came to provide accessible logins for a number of NCBI’s platforms including www.ncbi.ie and the myNCBI SmartHub on Alexa and Google Home. Vittorio also tells us about a brand-new type of login credential called a Passkey...