Learn to combat impersonation in onboarding, account recovery, and other areas with identity verification.
The foundation of an organization’s security posture is trust. With advancements in impersonation techniques, trusting who is on the other side of a digital interaction has grown more difficult. Cybercriminals do in-depth research on job candidates to impersonate them, resulting in organizations onboarding bad actors by mistake. Employment-related identity fraud is becoming more common with nearly 90,000 cases reported to the FTC last year.
In addition to onboarding, help desk and recovery are interactions often targeted by impersonators. Microsoft has seen an uptick in threat actors contacting helpdesks and impersonating a user to complete a password reset or register a new multifactor authentication (MFA) device. Organizations could use video call verification to counteract these methods, but the increased use of deepfakes makes this verification method ineffective. This issue is growing rapidly with estimated damages of gen-AI based fraud predicted to reach $40 billion in the U.S. by 2027. As the frequency, complexity, and damages of impersonation tactics grow, trust in digital interactions decreases.
Now is the time to learn how to strengthen your organization’s identity verification to improve the trust and safety of online interactions with Microsoft Entra Verified ID.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID enables organizations to verify a wide variety of credentials using a simple API. Verified ID integrates with leading verification partners to verify identity attributes for individuals - such as a driver’s license and a liveness match - across 192 countries. Today, hundreds of organizations rely on Verified ID to remotely onboard new users and reduce fraud when providing help desk services or account recovery. For example, using Verified ID, Skype has reduced fraudulent cases of registering Skype Phone Numbers in Japan by 90%.
If you want to improve trust in your organization’s digital interactions with strong identity verification, join the Verified ID team in our new webinar series. We want to empower your organization with the knowledge of how Verified ID can help with your identity verification challenges.
We’ll have experts from the Verified ID product team discuss different scenarios where Verified ID can introduce high-assurance identity verification, provide technical skilling for new features, and share tips and tricks to help you unlock the full potential of Microsoft Entra Verified ID. This is a great opportunity to bring questions, provide feedback, and engage directly with the people behind the technology.
Upcoming sessions
Microsoft Entra Suite: Onboarding with Verified ID
December 12, 2024 – 8:00 a.m. PDT
Visit the event page to learn more, RSVP, and add to your calendar.
Streamline and secure your organization's onboarding process using Microsoft Entra Verified ID and ID Governance. Learn how to onboard the right people and get them ready to start work with the right resources and levels of permission--all in minutes rather than days or weeks.
Speakers:
Ankur Patel - Head of Product, Verified ID & External ID
Sri Ponnada - Senior Product Manager
Session takeaway: Actionable blueprints for implementing verified onboarding and other Verified ID scenarios for your organization
We’re currently planning our upcoming session topics. Have something you want us to cover? Propose your ideas below in the comments!
What if I can’t attend live?
Each session in this series is recorded and available on demand on the Tech Community and YouTube immediately after conclusion. For the full Microsoft Entra playlist, visit aka.ms/MicrosoftEntra/Videos.
Ankur Patel
Head of Product for Verified ID & External ID
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