Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Hiring teams face a new reality: your recruiters are now the first line of defense against workforce security threats. Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four candidate profiles worldwide will be fake. Multiple forces are already paving the way for this surge in fake candidate identities.

This year's EDUCAUSE brought together leaders from IT, security, enrollment, and student services. The theme, “Restoring Trust,” reflects the challenges that higher education institutions and professionals are facing. Fraudsters are using new tools and techniques to target faculty and students. Whether they’re trying to gain access to sensitive information or steal student aid, the potential danger is real.

Security leaders are rethinking how they establish and maintain identity assurance across the employee life cycle as workforce fraud and AI-driven impersonation accelerate. And as threats increase, confidence is dropping. At a recent CISO event, more than 85% of security leaders told us they’re only somewhat confident or not confident at all in their ability to handle GenAI-enabled fraud.

Age-based regulations are evolving worldwide. While many people are already familiar with self-attestation forms for accessing adult content, the scope and approved methods of age assurance continue to expand due to evolving regulations worldwide. These regulations include the UK's Online Safety Act, which was accompanied by a set of highly effective methods to gauge age, and Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act that places guardrails around what digital content children have access to.

As global regulations requiring age-appropriate access to online content and services expand, organizations face a critical challenge: How do you effectively check a user's age without creating a frustrating experience or compromising their privacy? The International Organization for Standardization (the ISO) has provided a clear answer with its new standard, ISO 27566-1.

If you plan to launch or expand financial services in Australia, understanding Australia's evolving Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) requirements is critical. While the country supports innovation, its robust regulatory regime also maintains clear guardrails. Australia’s fintech and financial services markets are among the most regulated in the world with heavy penalties for noncompliance.

As Persona’s telecom lead, I've spent much of my career speaking to communications platform as a service (CPaaS) and network providers about verification and consumer protection in the wireless industry. Sometimes, it felt rare to see the telecom and identity worlds truly intersect at industry events, but at this year’s Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, that intersection was impossible to miss.

Money20/20 has always been a window into what's next for money movement, and in 2025, crypto and stablecoins took center stage with a new energy and focus. This year, the discussions for crypto were all about infrastructure, collaboration, and building systems that last. Across sessions, one message kept surfacing: Crypto's future depends on collaboration. During our Money20/20 panel, Lee Bagan from Bridge put it best: "We're not asking if crypto can work within the system anymore.