Thales, world leader in digital security, has launched its Identity Verification Suite, in response to the rising need of remote client onboarding. With privacy and user experience as its heart, the IDV Suite enables a secure and 100%-AI identity verification service. It integrates the latest facial recognition technology, document security features recognition and machine learning engines. The solution addresses the Covid-19 environment with touchless interactions, allowing service providers to reach end users via their mobile handsets or the web.
Secure identity verification has become a crucial part of online security and digital onboarding, and constitutes a significant opportunity for businesses. In cases such as digital enrolment or KYC (Know Your Customer) regulations, ID verification is critical in order to efficiently detect fraud and therefore build user trust in the digital world.
The IDV Suite designed by Thales allows a secure and smooth user journey for markets from the travel industry (airlines and airport security, car rental companies, public and private transportation), telecom operators, banks, citizen services (International Driving Permit), and all types of online service providers looking to meet their KYC needs. To ease the deployment of the solution, Thales provides flexible onboarding options including a highly secure connection to Thales IDV server in SaaS (Solution as a service) mode.
The modular solution offers flexibility to deploy a single solution across all channels, whether through mobile applications, websites, or a network of dedicated document scanners, thus aligning with the security expectations of each industry. From checking the validity of the Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ) of an ID document to more advanced control under white light, infra-red and UV checks, the suite can also securely perform contactless NFC verification using the chip of e-documents.
Advanced facial biometric technology is also a key feature in the IDV Suite, integrating passive liveness detection to facilitate end-user experience. The customer is asked to take a selfie, and then the solution transparently analyzes the liveness of the selfie and securely matches it against the portrait on the ID document, allowing for quick and efficient identity biometric verification.
Human Error is Still Leading Cause of Cloud Data Breaches
Posted in Commentary with tags Proofpoint, Thales on July 7, 2023 by itnerdAccording to the 2023 Thales Global Cloud Security Study, of the 39% of businesses that experienced a data breach in their cloud environment in 2022, the leading cause of these breaches was human error, at 55%, significantly above the next highest factor which was vulnerabilities exploitation, 21%.
Also measured is a 41% rise in SaaS usage from 2021 to 2023. With these applications usually replacing on-premises application functionality, 55% of cyber professionals say this increase has made it more complex to secure data in the cloud. Meanwhile, the risk is compounded with 75% of respondents saying that more than 40% of data stored in their organizations’ cloud was ‘sensitive.’
The targeting of users to infiltrate cloud networks is a trend being observed by other cybersecurity companies as we shared in Proofpoint’s June report The Human Factor 2023. Matt Cooke, Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint told Infosecurity:
George McGregor, VP, Approov had this to say:
“A key recommendation of the report is to take steps to manage keys. As cloud services and APIs proliferate so do the keys and credentials used to access them. In particular, keys exposed in mobile app code can provide a path to cloud services for hackers, and central key management should be used to ensure keys are not exposed in code.”
Since we all work in the cloud for a variety of reasons, it makes sense that everything that be done to make the cloud a safe place to work and store data in. Which means that everyone needs to do everything possible to remove the human element from the cloud security equation.
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