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:
As deepfakes move beyond preproduced content to real-time generation, the risk that attackers can impersonate identities via multiple channels has grown. This can be exploited for attacks on biometric authentication procedures, real-time social engineering against employees, and disruption of hiring processes.
Veriff is investing in greater visibility in the U.S., a key growth market, to help the world's most trusted organizations build secure digital experiences.
The Ghanaian government is working on a policy that would mandate age verification for access to age-restricted services like online pornographic content.
Bulgarian national eID provider Evrotrust has signed an agreement with identity verification firm Shufti as it expands its presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Shufti will be able to offer QES services through Evrotrust, while Evrotrust, in turn, can integrate Shufti’s IDV and VideoIdent capabilities.
By adding the primary mobile electronic identification service in the Baltic region, businesses will be able to verify customers from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia using their everyday identities (without asking the customer for physical documents during onboarding).
Google’s cybersecurity organizations said Friday (June 5) that data theft extortion groups are targeting professional, legal and financial services organizations by impersonating IT support. These groups are posing as IT technicians remotely and in person, Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group wrote in a Friday blog post.
Opal Security, the AI-native access governance platform for every identity, today announced $23 million in new funding alongside five senior leadership appointments.
The U.S. technology corporation recently launched digital IDs in Brazil, India, Taiwan and the UK and is now preparing to deploy ID passes to select European Union states this summer. Users in Estonia, Ireland, Spain, France and Italy will be able to scan their passports to create a digital pass in Google Wallet.
Danish citizens have been granted control to verify themselves digitally and prove their age via the official new ID app, AltID. AltID is not expected to replace Denmark’s landscape of digital public tools such as MitID, Rejsekort, or the digital health card, but it will work with the existing MitID system.
The feature is rolling out globally in Phone by Google to Android 12+ devices this month, starting with Pixel devices.
Identity Gateway, built on Microsoft Azure, addresses this by providing organisations with a single, standardised API and commercial framework through which they can connect to multiple government-backed and regulated private digital identity schemes.
Equifax UK and Biuro Informacji Kredytowej (BIK), Poland's primary credit bureau, have announced a partnership to expand access to identity verification and fraud prevention services for clients in Poland, the UK, and beyond.
