Identity Authentication
Fraud Prevention via Identity Authentication
Identity Authentication Overview
The world is in the throes of an identity theft epidemic. Mass data breaches by tech-savvy individuals and organized criminal groups has led to consecutive periods of year-over-year double-digit growth in the losses experienced by organizations resulting from fraudulent use of stolen identities.
For many reasons, public facing organizations must concern themselves with ensuring that they know who their customer is. Whether to maintain compliance with regulations such as the Red Flag Rules associated with the Bank Secrecy Act, or to protect the assets and properties that may be accessed using a victim’s personally identifying information, the need to authenticate individual identity is more important than ever.
Consumers want to transact with your company quickly and efficiently, with minimum trouble, from anywhere they may be. For most companies that provide high trust services and products, the challenge lies in accommodating this customer demand for convenience while still maintaining compliance and minimizing the risk of losses that may result from fraud.
When a customer presents identification – a driver license, a state-issued ID, a passport, a military ID, or similar– it is up to the recipient organization to determine whether or not the given identification is genuine. It will become of increasingly great importance to organizations that they be able to conduct this task efficiently and effectively regardless of where the customer may be attempting to conduct their transactions.
In-Person Point of Transaction Identity Authentication
The most direct and easy way to authenticate a person’s identity is to authenticate their identity credential document to make sure that it is not a forgery.
When that person is right there at the checkout counter or teller window, the process is fairly straightforward. FraudFighter supplies two types of authentication device to be used in this situation:
- Ultraviolet detectors for manual authentication
- PALIDIN + forensic document scanners for automated authentication
Choosing the correct product is a matter of evaluating potential exposure and considering your business use-case to determine which is the
Online and Mobile Transaction Identity Authentication
The great challenge now facing organizations is how to conduct identity authentication when the client is not at your location. Shopping. Banking. Accessing government services, existing accounts, or medical benefits. All can be conducted via web-based browsers, or – increasingly more common – via mobile applications.
How can organizations ensure that they know who their customer is in these circumstances?
FraudFighter believes that the answer must still lay in the authentication of the government-issued identity credential document. For this reason, FraudFighter has partnered with some of the leading global companies in development of a suite of mobile solutions - PALIDIN (Durendal) - that allows for the remote authentication of ID documents regardless of where the client may be when they transact with you.
Credentialing Your Constituents
For many organizations, the business case justifies a procedure that allows for the repeated authentication of clients through simple, automated processes.
FraudFighter's PALIDIN solution is designed to help you build and manage just such an ability.
PALIDIN can be the primary identity management tool for an organization. The PALIDIN process involves "credentialing" your constituents - whether they by customers, members, employees, or other. The first step lies in establishing your trust in this individual's identity. PALIDIN enables this through a two-phase process that involves, first, authenticating their government-issued identity document, then, performing a facial match of the live individual against the image on the identity document.
This, then, allows an organization to begin transitioning the individual into becoming a "trusted identity" - a term that means, generally, that "we believe you are the person you claim to be and that we can assertively verify you no matter what channel you are using to deal with us."
It would not be prudent, however, to believe that every time a client interacts with an organization, that they should be required to undergo an ID document authentication. This could be costly, time-consuming, and create friction in transactional environments.
Instead, PALIDIN allows clients to mix and match various different multi-modal active and passive identification services - such as behavioral biometrics, behavioral analysis, physical biometrics, and more - to ultimately move the individual into the "trusted identity" category.
In this way, your authenticated clients can be identified when conducting transactions -in many cases without having to say or do anything - a step that can be achieved fairly simply regardless of where they may be.
Identity Authentication Products
Manual Identity Authentication Products
Browse through our catalog of manual identity authentication products:
These manual ID document authentication products utilize long-wave Ultraviolet (UV) light. UV light causes invisible fluorescent security features to become visible, allowing you to verify that the ID document is secure.
If you need help determining which manual identity authentication product will benefit your business the most, our team of fraud prevention specialists can help. Please click here to contact our fraud prevention team.
Automatic Identity Authentication Products
We support a number of different high-end ID document scanning hardware products to work together with our PALIDIN software. The two products that we have found to be easiest to work with are featured here:
- ID-150 for "smaller" driver-license sized documents
- AT10K for both "small and large" documents (incl. passports)
The FraudFighter automatic identity document authentication products work in unison with PALIDIN our groundbreaking ID document authentication software solution.
If you need help determining which automatic identity authentication product will benefit your business the most, our team of fraud prevention specialists can help you out. Please click here to get in touch with our fraud prevention team.
Authenticate customers' identities anytime, anywhere, with our robust, customizable interface.
Now you can authenticate identities faster than ever using PALIDIN, our new proprietary ID authentication software!