Editor-in chief. Market intelligence and strategy expert, and long-year speaker, moderator. More than 15 years in global identity verification, age verification, and RegTech markets.
Posts by Per Henrikson:
MVNO provider Total Wireless disclosed that a data security incident last year at one of its service providers, Veriff, which provides identity verification services, exposed sensitive personal information of its customers.
A new capabilityby Okta enables organizations to carry out identity verification with government-issued verifiable digital credentials (VDCs).
Moca Network is a flagship project by Animoca Brands, designed to build the world’s largest chain-agnostic decentralized digital identity network. MocaProof is a gamified digital identity verification and reward platform that leverages blockchain to simplify and advance data privacy and self-sovereignty.
Clear has launched CLEAR ID, a free, mobile digital ID that enables US travelers to verify their identity at more than 250 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints directly from their phones using the CLEAR Mobile App.
Check Point researchers have detailed an investment fraud operation that uses AI-generated personas and a mobile app distributed through official app stores to construct what the company describes as a synthetic trading environment for victims.
A simple online transaction can pull victims into vicious cycle of fraud.
As enterprise systems grow more complex due to interconnected assets, the proliferation of device and nonhuman identities, and widespread adoption of cloud, hybrid, and multicloud strategies, organizations across industries are turning to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to secure their systems and assets. These findings are from ABI Research’s Public Key Infrastructure Market Data report.
CrowdStrike acquires SGNL to deliver Continuous Identity by redefining privilege and access for humans, NHIs, and AI agents with real-time authorization.
A new report for the World Economic Forum’s Cybercrime Atlas, published on January 8, noted that this advancement coincided with other worrying trends, such as threat actors increasingly targeting financial services and cryptocurrency – particularly prone to KYC bypass attacks.
Malaisian MBI has endorsed a privacy-focused age verification solution built on the Zetrix blockchain platform, as governments worldwide move to tighten rules aimed at protecting minors online. The solution is intended to help social media and messaging platforms verify users' age eligibility while limiting the amount of personal data collected and stored.
Datai, a Luxembourg-based consultancy firm, has selected Hopae, the digital identity infrastructure company, to modernize KYC processes for its financial institution clients in Europe and make them fully compliant with eIDAS 2.0.
The emergence of synthetic identities created by artificial intelligence (AI) signifies a shift in financial crime. Deepfakes, a form of synthetic media, are hyper-realistic alterations of audio, video and images produced using machine learning techniques like generative adversarial networks (GANs).
