I was up bright and early to attend a Liminal Demo Day, and the second presenter was Proof. Lauren Furey and Kurt Ernst presented, with Lauren assuming the role of the agent verifying Kurt’s identity.
The mechanism to verify the identity was a video session. In this case, Agent Lauren used three methods:
- Examining Kurt’s ID, which he presented on screen.
- Examining Kurt’s face (selfie).
- Examining a credit card presented by Kurt.
One important note: Agent Lauren had complete control over whether to verify Kurt’s identity or not. She was not a mere “human in the loop.” Even if Kurt passed all the checks, Lauren could fail the identity check if she suspected something was wrong (such as a potential fraudster prompting Kurt what to do).
If you’ve been following my recent posts on identity assurance level, you know what happened next. Yes, I asked THE question:
“Another question for Proof: does you solution meet the requirements for supervised remote identity proofing (IAL3)?”
Lauren responded in the affirmative.
It’s important to note that Proof’s face authentication solution incorporates liveness detection, so there is reasonable assurance that the person’s fake is not a spoof or a synthetic identity.
So I guess I’m right, and that we’re seeing more and more IAL3 implementations, even if they don’t have the super-duper Kantara Initiative certification that NextgenID has.
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