Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 4 - The Verification Economy (Part 2 of 2)

Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 4 - The Verification Economy (Part 2 of 2)

From The Calculus of IT by Nathan McBride & Michael Crispin

December 18, 2025 · 2h 4m · Season 3 · Episode 4

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of the verification economy in IT, focusing on the costs and challenges of verifying identities and credentials.

In part two, we tackle who actually does all this verifying, what it costs, and the uncomfortable questions nobody's asking yet. IT is becoming the verification department whether you signed up for it or not. You're verifying employee identities, contractor credentials, AI agent authority, data provenance...basically everything, constantly. We explore the shift from proactive governance to reactive verification, the impossible tension between privacy and verification, and scenarios that keep ...

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Hosts: Nathan McBride, Michael Crispin

Topics covered

  • verification economy
  • IT governance
  • privacy vs verification
  • employee identity verification
  • contractor credentials
  • data provenance

Keywords

  • verification
  • IT
  • privacy
  • governance
  • data
  • credentials
  • identity

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