Nishant Kaushik

@nishantkaushik.com

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CTO @ FIDO Alliance | Identity, Security, Privacy.| Solver of Problems | Mentalic, First Class | Recommended by 4/5 Identirati | He/Him

Logo for the Identibeer meetups - Beer optional. People essential.
Screenshot of a toot on Mastodon by https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils with the text "Technically, the extinction of the dinosaurs is the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone."
Banner image with the phrase “Together We Have Force” repeated on it. Image from Bekky Bekks on unsplash.
Image in the style of a marquee, mentioning the 3 events happening in Berlin in the same week: The Identity Salon, IdentiBeer, and EIC.
An image of a chart celebrating World Passkey Day, showing the pain of password complexity rules, along side the many reasons people end up resetting their passwords. It also shows a graph of declining password usage and rising passkey usage, along with a comparison of how much faster it is to sign-in with passkeys. It ends with the phrase "Goodbye Passwords, Hello Freedom" next to the passkeys logo. Because everyone loves a good chart (with graphs)!
Picture of human hand and robot hand performing a fistbump.
Screenshot from X showing one tweet saying “We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/ primitive tasks” Followed by a reply saying “Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again. Full circle innovation.”
Picture of Fezzik, Inigo, and Vizzini. From “The Princess Bride”
Banner for the Identity Policy Forum "Identity, Authentication and the Road Ahead", happening on Thursday, January 29, 2026 in Washington DC. Hosted by Better Identity Coalition, FIDO Alliance, and the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Card showing the quote “Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their greatest strength and fatal flaw.” By Jean Watson, American nurse theorist and nursing professor.
Screenshot of UK Prime Minister's post on twitter (X) saying "We are going to aim to make it impossible for children to take, share or view a nude image, and we're banning apps that create deepfakes."
Still from Rob Reiner’s classic ‘The Princess Bride’, in which grandpa asks “Where were we? Oh yes. In the Pit of Despair”
An “I voted today” sticker
Image of an ad for NULL, a conceptual face shield designed to jam facial recognition systems - from Meta glasses to street cams. It uses "adaptive light diffusion tech" to protect your face from AI detection. Ad has their tagline: "Keep your face your own."
Banner of Authenticate 2025 conference above the registration desk.
Photograph of Robert Redford
screenshot of tumblr post by bill-blake-fans-anonymous, which says: there's nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar
Photo of a coffee cup in front of the Identiverse floor sign, with various names crossed out, ending in “Identity Fabio”.
Promotional Banner for my talk on "Pro-Human Identity: From Ideal to Real" at Identiverse 2025. Taking place Wednesday June 4 from 10:30-10:55am in Mandalay Bay F.
Abstract image of a cloudy blob cuboid connected by cables to a gelatinous cube.
Poster for WOMEN IN IDENTITY'S IWD 24 Hour Peloton Fundraiser
screenshot of a NY Times article titled "Silicon Valley is Embracing Christianity (with the help of Peter Thiel)"
Screenshot of a reddit post titled "My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase" Highlight is that a summer intern saved their entire authentication service by finding a critical bug because he thought the commit messages and comments were too boring, and starting reviewing the code in earnest to add memes to his. As a result, he found a validation bypass bug in a legacy auth system that's been running since before TikTok existed and for which none of the original engineers are still around. He highlights it with the comment: "yo why this token validation looking kinda thicc though fr fr no cap this base64 decode bussin wait... hold up... this ain't bussin at all"
Photograph I took of the MLK Memorial in Washington DC.
Screenshot from article saying “At the core of this panic are concerns that China was able to get into backdoors set up by the U.S. government for domestic surveillance. Though not confirmed through reporting, some security analysts have publicly expressed a belief that Salt Typhoon penetrated systems authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”
Screenshot of the Apple App Store disclosure on the data collection policy of the Threads app.