Microsoft Entra Verified ID introduces Face Test in preview

Immediately, I’m thrilled to announce the growth of Microsoft Entra Verified ID to incorporate Face Test—a privacy-respecting facial matching function for high-assurance verifications, which is now in preview. Watch the video to study extra and skim on for how one can get began immediately.

Attempt Face Test for your self.

Verified ID: Confirm as soon as, use in all places

In our on a regular basis lives, we use id paperwork like driver’s licenses or passports as handy and safe methods to show our id. Till now, we’ve not had an excellent digital equal. Microsoft Entra Verified ID supplies a safe and easy-to-use expertise for digitally verifying many elements of our id, reminiscent of training, abilities, and office affiliation. As fraud skyrockets for companies and shoppers, and fraud ways develop into more and more advanced—particularly with developments in generative AI—id verification has by no means been extra essential.

Microsoft Entra Verified ID is predicated on open requirements, enabling organizations to confirm the widest number of credentials utilizing a easy API. Verified ID integrates with a number of the main verification companions to confirm id attributes for people (for instance, a driver’s license and a liveness match) throughout 192 international locations. Immediately, lots of of organizations depend on Verified ID to remotely onboard new customers in addition to scale back fraud when offering self-service restoration. For instance, Skype has lowered fraudulent instances of registering Skype Telephone Numbers in Japan by 90% by implementing Verified ID. Elsewhere, enterprises are issuing Verified Worker Credentials to allow workers to confirm their employment standing with LinkedIn in addition to for business-to-business collaboration.

Study extra about how Verified ID works and the way organizations are utilizing it immediately in our whitepaper.

Introducing Face Test with Verified ID: Unlocking high-assurance verifications at scale

Face Test, powered by Azure AI providers, provides a important layer of belief by matching a person’s real-time selfie and the photograph from their id doc (reminiscent of a passport or driver’s license). By sharing solely the match outcomes and never any delicate id knowledge, Face Test improves person privateness whereas permitting organizations to make certain the particular person claiming an id is absolutely them.

Many organizations are evaluating Face Test as a part of the preview. BEMO, a frontrunner in assist desk providers for cybersecurity operations, makes use of Face Test to shortly confirm the id of an worker and scale back the danger of impersonation. “The legal responsibility of granting admin [role] entry to the fallacious particular person is excessive, so Face Test supplies an additional layer of insurance coverage. Up to now we needed to commerce off between rising danger of fraudulent entry or elevated compliance danger by amassing personally identifiable data in an advert hoc method. Now we are able to confirm the id of an worker immediately and with excessive confidence, with out buying and selling off between safety and compliance.” Greater than 100 of BEMO’s enterprise clients have already carried out Face Test.

Go to our steadily requested questions to study extra. In case you are able to implement Face Test with Verified ID in your group, see the steps under to get began. 

Get began with Face Test in Verified ID

In case you are able to implement Verified ID in your group, listed below are the steps to get began.

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How Face Test permits high-assurance verification

Apps could make a easy API request for customers to carry out a Face Test in opposition to a Verified Worker credential, state-issued authorities ID, or a customized digital credential with a trusted photograph. For instance, companies can allow all kinds of self-service situations together with activating a passkey or resetting a password. A assist desk service for a enterprise can request a Face Test in opposition to a Verified Worker credential to confirm the id shortly and securely. To scale back compliance danger, apps obtain a confidence rating for match in opposition to the photograph from the specified credential, with out having access to liveness knowledge.

Microsoft Entra Verified ID developer docs has a reference for a presentation request pattern with Face Test.

What’s subsequent for Verified ID?

Immediately, companies can confirm all kinds of id attributes, reminiscent of employment, training or government-issued ID (with companions like LexisNexis® Danger Options, Au10tix, and IDEMIA). Now with Face Test, companies might be assured that the particular person presenting these credentials is certainly the correct particular person to whom these credentials had been issued. Subsequent, we’re extending this API sample to confirm different id attributes that companies care about, together with verified work historical past and authorized entity verification in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), LexisNexis® Danger Options, and IDEMIA. Keep tuned for extra particulars on this program in coming weeks.

Be a part of us on-line at Microsoft Safe on March 13, 2024, to find out about Microsoft Entra improvements that redefine how to consider safe entry for any id to any useful resource, from wherever.

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