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:
“When ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Enough: Digital Identity Verification in the Age of Bots and Agents,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo, examines how legacy approaches to know your customer (KYC) and know your business (KYB) are colliding with a new reality defined by automated fraud, synthetic identities and AI-driven attacks.
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ByteDance-owned TikTok, and other major platforms popular with young people such as YouTube, are coming under increasing pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children.
Weak identity verification processes are leaving gig platforms, workers and consumers exposed to significant fraud and safety risks.
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).
Deepfake technologies are enabling attackers to bypass know-your-customer (KYC) and remote verification processes.
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.
The SİMA Imza app was launched in 2022, and has been downloaded 5.5 million times, surpassing half of Azerbaijan’s total population earlier this year.
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.
