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Person Present: The Future Of Card Not Present Identity Verification

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Identity verification and user authentication are hot spaces right now, and only getting hotter as merchants, financial institutions (FIs) and consumers demand more foolproof protection against fraudsters. Today, though, visit any industry trade show and the halls are packed with identity verification products.

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Digital Identity, (Way) Beyond The Social Security Number

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The more individuals leave a trail of information across websites, the more tempting the targets are for hackers to make off with everything from Social Security numbers to health care information. Your security question with your dog’s name? The more business is done online, the more fraud makes inroads. They ain’t cutting it.

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Dodging Faster Fraud In A Same-Day ACH Environment

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There’s much to look forward to as the September rollout of Phase 2 of Same Day ACH (Debit Pull) looms, but David Barnhardt, executive vice president of full-service payment and verification solutions provider GIACT , thinks there’s just as much reason for caution. “I Barnhardt said banks should cross-check identities using social platforms.

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Six Steps to Using Biometrics to Open & Manage Accounts Digitally

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For example, this process looks to establish there is a person such as Jane Smith and that she has the corresponding attributes such as date of birth and/or social security number. Identity Verification. Together identity validation and identity verification are often referred to as identity proofing. Enrollment.

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Digital Identity Takes On Medical Data Theft

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This is where medical organizations use online identity verification technologies to capture a patient’s government-issued ID and a corroborating selfie to ensure the person behind the ID is the person creating the account.”.

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Synthetic Identities, Tailor-Made For Fraud

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The fact remains that the very data that is readily available across all conduits of transactions – from phone numbers to Social Security numbers – are there for the taking, across all manner of firms, and can be used as building blocks to create sophisticated ways to defraud the innocent.

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Identify Proofing’s Break With Fraud’s Tradition

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Put another way, and to paraphrase a hockey great: When it comes to identity verification and the technology that comes with it, FIs need to skate where the technology is headed, not where it has been. It makes us comfortable with new ways of authentication and new ways of verification.”.