Identity Verification
What is Identity Verification?
The process of confirming that an individual's claimed identity matches their actual identity through document checks, biometric comparison, or other methods.
Terms that appear alongside identity verification
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as identity verification. The number is how many controls name both.
- profiling 14 shared controls
- consent 14 shared controls
- data subject 14 shared controls
- gdpr 14 shared controls
- data subject rights 13 shared controls
- right to object 10 shared controls
- data portability 10 shared controls
- automated decision making 9 shared controls
Frameworks that govern identity verification
What the standards actually require on identity verification
Requirements naming identity verification across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
To establish the s 28(2) matters the entity must: for an individual, take reasonable steps to establish the customer is who they claim to be;
amlctf-act-2006-australia::28(3) · Identity verification, customer risk rating and risk-based KYC collection and verification →Healthcare recipients are registered and their identity verified before access to their My Health Record is provided (Part 3 Div 1).
MYHR-REG-2 · Healthcare recipient registration and identity verification →Users provide sufficient evidence to verify their identity when requesting new credentials.
ISM-1593 · Identity verification before issuing credentials →Banks must have risk-based procedures for verifying the identity of each customer within a reasonable time after account opening, using documents, non-documentary methods, or a combination (31 CFR 1020.220(a)(2)).
BSA-CIP-2 · Identity Verification →The suitability process may be an AusCheck background check; where the CIRMP permits one it must assess the information in paragraphs 5(a) to (d) of the AusCheck Act, the criteria are the criminal history criteria (whether the person has a CIRMP criminal recor...
critical-infrastructure-risk-management-program-cirmp-rules-2023::9(2) · s 9(2) AusCheck background checks where the CIRMP uses them: criminal history criteria, dual identity verification, notification, Secretary's advice →Security Dimension 2 Authentication per X.805 Clause 6.2: Authentication confirms that each party to a communication (for example a person, device, service or application) really is who it claims to be, and gives assurance that no party is impersonating anothe...
X805-Dim2-Authentication-Identity-Verification-Claimed-Identities-Entities-Communication · ITU-T X.805 Security Dimension 2 - Authentication + Identity Verification + Claimed Identity + Entity Authentication + Data Origin Authentication + Mutual Authentication + Multi-Factor + Cryptographic Authentication →Questions people ask about identity verification
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