Identity/biometrics/technology marketing and writing services
These are the no-good characters from my Bredemarket blog post earlier today, “Why is Educational Identity Important?” That post quoted from 1Kosmos and Fischer Identity:
“Higher education institutions are increasingly targeted by identity fraud schemes, including “ghost students,” synthetic identities, and financial aid fraud.”
Don’t let these fraudsters rip your university off.
1Kosmos and Fischer Identity (discussed previously) announced a partnership on February 4 to bring “high-assurance identity verification and passwordless authentication to colleges and universities.”
The press release also noted why educational identity is important.
“Higher education institutions are increasingly targeted by identity fraud schemes, including “ghost students,” synthetic identities, and financial aid fraud. At the same time, universities must support digital access for students, alumni, faculty, and staff across fragmented IAM environments that span legacy systems, modern cloud platforms, and third-party services.”
Let’s look at the what.
- Verify student, alumni, and staff identities using high-assurance proofing and biometric verification
- Reduce financial aid and enrollment fraud caused by synthetic or stolen identities
- Strengthen assurance across fragmented IAM environments spanning legacy and modern systems
- Enable strong, passwordless authentication based on verified digital identity that is reusable and persists across enrollment, academic access, and alumni engagement
If your company provides educational identity solutions, and your message isn’t getting out to your prospects, perhaps you need to talk to the biometric product marketing expert, Bredemarket.
Bredemarket can write your biometric company’s product marketing content.
School volunteers aren’t free…especially when they need background checks.
Montana Public Radio explains that the state imposed new fingerprint-based background checks for school volunteers.
At $30 a pop, the costs add up. Missoula is spending an additional $20,000 a month to fund this.
Bozeman isn’t paying for this. It’s making the volunteers pay.
Helena was already fingerprinting volunteers and therefore isn’t incurring any additional costs.
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Follow-up to my March post “When Remote Bar Exam Technology Failed, You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.”
“The State Bar of California announced Friday that its beleaguered leader, who has faced growing pressure to resign over the botched February roll out of a new bar exam, will step down in July. Leah T. Wilson, the agency’s executive director, informed the Board of Trustees she will not seek another term in the position she has held on and off since 2017. She also apologized for her role in the February bar exam chaos.”
No idea if Wilson was sued personally.
Read the updated story at https://www.mahoningmatters.com/news/nation-world/national/article305606501.html#storylink=cpy
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This is a remote education post, but not an educational identity post.
I have previously discussed online test taking, and I guess the State Bar of California reads the Bredemarket blog because it decided that an online bar exam would be a great idea, since it would reduce the costs of renting large halls for test taking purposes.
“The online testing platforms repeatedly crashed before some applicants even started. Others struggled to finish and save essays, experienced screen lags and error messages and could not copy and paste text from test questions into the exam’s response field — a function officials had stated would be possible.”
No surprise, but the remote bar exam debacle was so bad that students are filing…lawsuits.
“Some students also filed a complaint Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing Meazure Learning, the company that administered the exam, of “failing spectacularly” and causing an “unmitigated disaster.””
Since I started creating (sort of) pillar pages in April 2022, I’ve built more, including three devoted to particular industries.
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As a follow-up to “You Need a Driver’s License,” my latest wildebeest picture is called “Who Took This Test?”
Educational identity is important.
It all started with “Know Your Customer,” a shorthand phrase used by financial institutions and related entities who need to know who their customers are.
But then various governments, industries, and entities got into the act with their own variants, such as “Know Your Business.”
I was curious about how many of these “know your” variants I’ve discussed in the Bredemarket blog. Here’s what I found:
I’m sure I’ll come up with some others.
Another KYx acronym from the educational identity realm: Know Your Teacher. A South Carolina school district didn’t:
“On Thursday, the Laurens County School District 55 Superintendent Jody Penland announced a teacher at Waterloo Elementary will “no longer serve” as a teacher at the school.”
Why? Because she wasn’t who she said she was.
“School officials discovered Bryia Lattimore Scott of Simpsonville was impersonating Viola Church in order to gain employment at Waterloo Elementary.”
Scott was arrested, and bond was set at $5,000.
Fischer Identity recently shared a link to a Chronicle of Higher Education article about campus digital identities. It specifically discusses how Baylor University worked with Fischer Identity and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create an identity and access management (IAM) solution.
I won’t give away all the information about the Fischer Identity-AWS effort at Baylor—you have to opt in to access a gated case study to obtain that—but I will say that the case study claims a 12-week implementation of an IAM system that stores “several hundred thousand identities.”
I assume the alumni at Baylor are a generous segment of the university community.
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