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Digital Identity

How to Choose the Best KYC Onboarding and KYC API Solution for Your Business

In today’s global economy, businesses are required to comply with stringent regulatory frameworks that necessitate identity verification for their clients. The process of verifying customer identities, commonly known as Know Your Customer (KYC), can be a complex and time-consuming task for businesses.

How to Streamline Security Operations With Identity Security Intelligence

“Black Swan” author Nicholas Nassim Taleb once wrote that “intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).” Organizations must take this definition to heart as they incorporate Identity Security intelligence – an essential element of any Zero Trust cybersecurity strategy. Many organizations have dedicated Security Operations Center (SOC) teams responsible for their threat detection, investigation and response efforts.

Merchant Onboarding Made Easy: Benefits of Using a KYC API

Onboarding merchants is crucial for ongoing development if you’re a merchant acquirer or payment service provider (PSP). Of course, you want more businesses since they generate more sales. On the other hand, bringing on dubious merchants that are likely to approve fraudulent transactions merely leads to fees and losses that have an effect on your bottom line. The world of payments is expanding quickly and changing all the time as fraudsters become more skilled and fraud assaults rise.

Four Ways to Secure Identities as Privilege Evolves

Any user can become privileged in certain conditions. This includes everyday employees using business applications in which they can access - and take actions with - the resources attackers aim to exploit. And whether you're a CIO or a PAM admin, you likely see this evolution of privilege occurring regularly. Protecting your users' identities - from securing authentication to granting, certifying and revoking access - is essential. But it's not easy, as the users and apps requiring protection grow in number and scope. So how can your team rise to this challenge?

Identity Security for Dummies

With perimeter-focused architectures quickly becoming irrelevant, enterprises are looking toward identity-focused security measures to protect new "perimeterless" networks and new forms of working. Identity Security for Dummies is a primer on securing digital identities across the enterprise. This conversational book is written for technical and business stakeholders alike with plenty of examples, analogies and elements designed to make this security topic more approachable.

Persistence Techniques That Persist

Once threat actors gain a foothold on a system, they must implement techniques to maintain that access, even in the event of restarts, updates in credentials or any other type of change that might disrupt access. These techniques are collectively known as persistence techniques. In this blog post, we will focus on how malware can achieve persistence by abusing the Windows Registry.

Unveiling the Bank Security Secrets: How CIAM and Identity Verification enable seamless Onboarding

Due to the importance of its data, frequent audits, and the fines and financial implications of fraud, the banking and financial services sector is subject to some of the most stringent rules and monitoring in existence today. Technology platforms, procedures, and policies that guarantee your organization’s compliance and security are essential to keeping ahead in the banking industry in the digital era.

Secrets Management: Meeting Developers Where They Are

There’s always a balancing act when it comes to building and deploying cloud-native applications in environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS). The whole point of moving production to the cloud is that developers can move faster than ever before, innovating and shipping new features on a daily basis. But that same speed can be an organization’s downfall if development outpaces security processes and accidentally exposes secrets or other credentials to potential attackers.

EP 22 - Deep Fakes, ChatGPT and Disinformation: Theresa Payton on Evolving Digital Threats (Part 2)

Today’s episode is part two of our conversation with former White House CIO, bestselling author and founder and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, Theresa Payton. If you missed part one, you can start here and go back to that episode. Or, you can start there and come back to this one – but you’re already here, so maybe just stick around?

Voter ID Verification API: Streamlining User Onboarding using simplified Identity Verification

The Election Commission of India issues the Indian Voter ID Card (officially known as the Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC)) to adult Indian citizens who have reached the age of 18. It is primarily used for identity proof of Indian citizens when they cast their votes in local, state, and federal elections held in the nation. It may also be used for identity verification of name, address, and age verification for other needs like getting a SIM card for a phone or applying for a passport.