Travis McGregor in Industry Today: The Infrastructure Shift Reshaping Digital Trust

SLC Digital CEO Travis McGregor was featured in Industry Today, exploring why the future of digital trust will be built on cryptographic proof and hardware-rooted infrastructure — not another layer of software.

As AI makes impersonation, deepfakes, and synthetic identities more sophisticated, verifying identity alone is no longer enough. McGregor argues that most authentication systems still try to infer trust through probabilistic signals — passwords, codes, familiar devices — rather than cryptographically prove it, and that AI is rapidly eroding the gap between high-confidence authentication and high-assurance identity.

The piece makes the case for moving trust into infrastructure: anchoring authentication in trusted hardware and network infrastructure already deployed at global scale. McGregor positions the SIM and eSIM — embedded in billions of mobile devices and carrier-verified at issuance — as one of the most scalable foundations for hardware-rooted trust, and a stronger boundary against SIM-swapping, MFA fatigue, and AI-driven impersonation. It also looks at what that shift means as autonomous AI agents begin executing transactions and approvals on behalf of users.

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