Microsoft Entra Verified ID introduces Face Examine in preview

At present, I’m thrilled to announce the growth of Microsoft Entra Verified ID to incorporate Face Examine—a privacy-respecting facial matching characteristic for high-assurance verifications, which is now in preview. Watch the video to be taught extra and skim on for how one can get began right now.

Attempt Face Examine 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 now have not had a very good digital equal. Microsoft Entra Verified ID gives a safe and easy-to-use expertise for digitally verifying many features of our id, resembling schooling, expertise, and office affiliation. As fraud skyrockets for companies and shoppers, and fraud techniques change into more and more advanced—particularly with developments in generative AI—id verification has by no means been extra necessary.

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 among the main verification companions to confirm id attributes for people (for instance, a driver’s license and a liveness match) throughout 192 nations. At present, tons of of organizations depend on Verified ID to remotely onboard new customers in addition to cut back fraud when offering self-service restoration. For instance, Skype has decreased fraudulent instances of registering Skype Cellphone Numbers in Japan by 90% by implementing Verified ID. Elsewhere, enterprises are issuing Verified Worker Credentials to allow staff 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 right now in our whitepaper.

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

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

Many organizations are evaluating Face Examine as a part of the preview. BEMO, a frontrunner in assist desk companies for cybersecurity operations, makes use of Face Examine to rapidly confirm the id of an worker and cut back the chance of impersonation. “The legal responsibility of granting admin [role] entry to the unsuitable particular person is excessive, so Face Examine gives an additional layer of insurance coverage. Up to now we needed to commerce off between growing threat of fraudulent entry or elevated compliance threat by amassing personally identifiable info in an advert hoc method. Now we will 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 applied Face Examine.

Go to our often requested questions to be taught extra. If you’re able to implement Face Examine with Verified ID in your group, see the steps beneath to get began. 

Get began with Face Examine in Verified ID

If you’re able to implement Verified ID in your group, listed below are the steps to get began.

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How Face Examine permits high-assurance verification

Apps could make a easy API request for customers to carry out a Face Examine towards 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 Examine towards a Verified Worker credential to confirm the id rapidly and securely. To scale back compliance threat, apps obtain a confidence rating for match towards 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 Examine.

What’s subsequent for Verified ID?

At present, companies can confirm all kinds of id attributes, resembling employment, schooling or government-issued ID (with companions like LexisNexis® Danger Options, Au10tix, and IDEMIA). Now with Face Examine, companies will be assured that the particular person presenting these credentials is certainly the precise particular person to whom these credentials have 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.

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