About...

…Hindle Consulting

You are welcome to read about my professional background on LinkedIn, and to contact me there if you’d like to discuss a project — although please don’t send a connection request unless we’ve actually interacted in person.

Current work includes:

• Identiverse , where I serve as Conference Chair and head up strategy and content
• Curity , where I sit on the Board of Directors
• Kantara Initiative Inc. , where I have a particular focus on corporate governance as a member of the Board of Directors ; and where I serve on the Kantara UK Advisory Board
• Authenticate , the FIDO Conference, where I am a member of the Program Committee
• IDPro , where I have the honor of being a member of the Emeritus Board

These publications might also be of interest:

• Impact of GDPR on Identity and Access Management
• Shared Signals Proof of Concept (co-authored with Emma Lindley)

…Partners, Colleagues, Friends

I’m blessed to work with a plethora of wonderful people and companies. Most of you know who you are :) Of particular note:

• Beruku
• Lockstep
• Spherical Cow Consulting
• Venn Factory
• Weave Identity

…This Site

At some point I might write some more posts about the architecture of the site. For now, know that it is built using Hugo , and hosted via Cloudflare Pages . The decision making process was (roughly) as follows:

I want to own and control my own content hence I need to publish my own pages (leaving open the possibility of linking to them from or republishing them on other sites such as LinkedIn).

I don’t have time to build or manage webpages myself anymore hence I need a publishing tool or framework and markdown would be optimal.

I want minimal infrastructure and I want easy portabilty and I’m basically just posting text hence static publishing is a good fit.

Longevity is important hence low cost is useful. (Static publishing also has a part to play here).

After that it was just a case of playing with some frameworks and some publishing/hosting options and seeing what I was most comfortable with. The answer, for now at least, turned out to be Hugo+Cloudflare Pages.

More recently, I’ve added some analytics support using Plausible . No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR inter alia, so it meets my privacy requirements. Thus far, I’m very impressed with the ease of set-up and the quality of the reports.