As organizations accelerate their move toward passwordless authentication, a new challenge is coming into focus: ensuring that digital credentials are tied to real, verified identities.
At the same time, the rise of passkeys and verifiable credentials is raising a more foundational question: how can organizations confidently verify the individual behind those credentials?
This challenge is being accelerated by the rise of deepfakes and AI‑driven synthetic identities is redefining the threat landscape, introducing risks that traditional authentication methods alone were not designed to address. According to recent industry data, deepfake‑enabled fraud has grown significantly, with synthetic and manipulated identities increasingly bypassing traditional controls.
IDEMIA Public Security is a launch identity verification partner for the Microsoft Entra ID Account Recovery flow. With account recovery for Microsoft Entra ID now moving into general availability, our expanded collaboration enables organizations to strengthen digital trust by combining secure, reusable credentials with high assurance identity proofing, helping organizations defend against AI driven deepfake and synthetic identity fraud.
In action, Microsoft Entra Verified ID enables organizations to issue secure, standards‑based digital credentials that can that can support a growing range of use cases, including account recovery, employee onboarding, contact center interactions, help‑desk support, and now also account recovery.
Paired with IDEMIA Public Security’s biometric identity proofing, those credentials are tied to verified human identities — bringing together government‑issued document authentication, certified liveness detection, and biometric matching against authoritative data sources.
This combination ensures that credentials are issued only to real individuals, and that organizations can confidently verify identity during subsequent interactions — capabilities neither platform can deliver independently.
“Deepfakes and AI driven identity fraud are rapidly reshaping the threat landscape. While passkeys are transforming authentication, the next critical step is ensuring the person behind any digital credential is real and verified. With Microsoft Entra Verified ID delivering secure, reusable credentials and IDEMIA Public Security providing government grade identity proofing, we are delivering digital trust at enterprise scale — from secure account recovery today to high assurance identity use cases tomorrow.”
Designed to scale, the expanded collaboration supports high‑assurance identity use cases ranging from secure account recovery today to broader enterprise access and verification scenarios over time—helping organizations meet both current operational needs and evolving regulatory requirements, including NIST SP 800‑63 IAL2/3, CMMC, DORA, and sector‑specific identity mandates across financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
The combined Microsoft Entra Verified ID and IDEMIA Public Security solution delivers high‑assurance identity proofing backed by authoritative data sources, certified liveness detection, and cryptographically verifiable credentials—integrated through API‑first deployment and designed to meet global data‑protection requirements.
This work builds on a long‑standing partnership between IDEMIA Public Security and Microsoft, including IDEMIA’s role as a launch partner for Microsoft Entra Verified ID and earlier efforts to extend its capabilities through liveness detection and document verification technologies.
Today, IDEMIA Public Security supports more than 600 government, state, and federal agencies and continues to expand across enterprise and regulated industries. By bringing identity assurance validated through independent benchmarks such as NIST and DHS into enterprise environments, organizations can enable more secure, frictionless, and trustworthy interactions across both digital and physical domains.
