Capterra Glossary
Identity-proofing Services
Companies issue accounts and credentials to people through identity-proofing services that confirm a person's identity based on information aggregated from publicly available and proprietary data sources. These services are used to validate identity for risky transactions, such as accessing sensitive, confidential information or transferring funds to an external account.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Identity-proofing Services
A customer enters their biometric data and documents into a device to establish their identity. Then, the system matches the documents with information from a national identity database or a trusted system of record, such as a corporation's human resources department. Businesses use identity-proofing services to establish the identity of employees as well as customers, creating more security for personal data and for sensitive corporate information. This reduces the chances of information hacking.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy