Digital Identity Friday Five: February 9, 2024

Covering the most interesting news for the week of February 3 to February 9

Today is Friday, February 9. I don’t have five things in digital identity that I found interesting this week... I have ten!

1/ Entrust is buying Onfido

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/confirmed-entrust-is-buying-ai-based-id-verification-startup-onfido-sources-say-for-more-than-400m/

2/ VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Face Check for secure identity verification

Link: https://venturebeat.com/security/microsoft-unveils-face-check-for-secure-identity-verification/

3/ iProov releases new Threat Intelligence report

Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240207776980/en/New-Threat-Intelligence-Report-Exposes-the-Impact-of-Generative-AI-on-Remote-Identity-Verification

4/ Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

5/ Sardine-backed SardineX Rebrands to Sonar, Expands Real-time Fraud Data Consortium

Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240206391082/en/Real-time-Fraud-Data-Sharing-Consortium-SardineX-Rebrands-to-Sonar-and-Expands-to-20-Members

6/ Mesh Unveils Multi-Factor Business Identity Solution for Marketplaces, Leadership Appointments

Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240207022887/en/Mesh-a-B2B-Identity-Startup-Founded-by-Ex-Amazon-Execs-Unveils-Multi-Factor-Business-Identity-Solution-for-Marketplaces-Ecommerce-Compliance-Bolsters-Leadership-with-Industry-Veterans

7/ AU10TIX Announces Leadership Appointments

Link: https://financialit.net/news/people-moves/au10tix-strengthens-leadership-team-seven-key-appointments-over-past-year

8/ authID Signals Strong Growth in Biometric Identity Verification and Authentication, Announces Talent Expansion

Link: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/02/08/2825986/0/en/authID-Positions-for-Strong-Growth-in-Biometric-Identity-Verification-and-Authentication-with-New-Identity-Domain-Talent.html

9/ Trustd launches Secure Collect: A Real-time, On-site Digital ID Solution

Link: https://www.ajot.com/news/trustd-launches-secure-collect-a-real-time-on-site-digital-id-solution-that-minimises-risk-in-the-supply-chainthis-week-trustd-the-first-business-id-and-credentials-app-that-was-purpose-built-for

10/ 404 Media Coverage OnlyFake, An Instant Fake ID Factory using #GenAI

Link: https://www.404media.co/email/7ba8cca7-96d2-487d-a1e3-5cc0de98fc4e/

Wow! What a week, that’s my #epicten