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This SIM-based authentication method has been in use in mobile networks for the past three
decades, and should continue to be fully utilized to replace passwords that fail to protect our
data and identity time and time again. Let’s make the world passwordless. Let’s harness the
SIM’s security superpower to make the digital world a safer place.

About the Author

Gautam Hazari is the Chief Technology Officer of Sekura.id, the
global leader in Mobile Identity services, who believes
passionately in humanizing technology by removing the password.
He truly deserves his twin accolades of ‘Mobile Identity founding
father’ and ‘Mobile Identity guru’. He is a strategically driven
technology leader with over 24 years of robust experience in the
telecoms industry. Gautam wrote the code and led the
implementation of the mobile identity initiative – Mobile Connect –
for 60 mobile operators across 30+ countries. An advisor to start-
ups in digital identity, healthcare, Internet of Things and fraud
prevention, he is a respected and sought-after thought leader for digital identity, advocating
solving the identity crisis in the digital world by actively creating the Internet’s missing Identity
layer.

Gautam Hazari can be reached on LinkedIn and at our company website https://sekura.id/

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