Advanced NIST IAL3 Verification For Digital Identity Proofing

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TrustSwiftly provides a scalable solution that meets NIST 800-63A IAL3 verification requirements, offering step-up reproofing based on risk, credential issuance in person or remotely, liveness detection facial image captures and more.

IAL3 identity proofing processes help lower attack surface and cyber liability insurance costs by providing direct observation at attended sessions, document validation against authoritative sources and biometric comparison against claimed digital identities to detect any impersonation attacks or attempts.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set standards across an array of fields, from plumbing pressure-loss measurements to chemical element viscosities. In the realm of NIST IAL3 verification they play an essential role, encouraging security practices that reduce cyber liability insurance costs.

An essential requirement of any solution compliant with IAL3 standards is using facial images with multiple effective pixels during proofing to reduce spoofing attacks and make evidence harder for fraudsters to manipulate or alter. This ensures IAL3 solutions use enough effective pixels that spoofing is less likely to succeed and fraudsters won't be able to modify or delete evidence quickly and easily.

TrustSwiftly's kiosk-based solution meets this IAL3 compliance requirement by offering an entirely supervised biometrics capture and comparison process, using turnkey Remote Kits and on-premise kiosks for this proofing session of 15 minutes remotely managed without enrollee having to travel into an office environment.

Secure connections

IAL3 represents the highest level of identity assurance, requiring on-site attended verification and rigorous evidence validation. Furthermore, an expert CSP representative should be present during proofing processes and interactions with applicants - this ensures that digital identities claimant present themselves are truly linked with themselves; thus limiting highly scalable attacks and protecting against synthetic identities.

Under the IAL3 Non-Biometric pathway, enrollee biometrics are not automatically compared against facial images in identity documents; rather a visual comparison must be made to ensure that enrollee cannot spoof their face against one found on document; this can be accomplished by comparing multiple photographs taken during an attestation session.

TrustSwiftly provides a comprehensive IAL3 compliant solution, which includes in-person or remote proofing, step-up reproofing based on risk, liveness detection facial image capture and document authentication. Companies using TrustSwiftly's secure passwordless authentication services can reduce cyber liability insurance premiums as well as operational expenses while decreasing attack surface areas.

Multiple modalities

The National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes standards across various fields, from plumbing pressure-loss measurements to chemical element viscosities. These benchmarks allow organizations to benchmark data and systems; digital identity experts can use them for verifying identities using document authentication and biometric comparison services like IAL3 verification to make sure a claimed digital identity matches up with evidence in real life, providing maximum security against fraud and reducing loss.

IAL3 requires in-person or remote identity proofing sessions utilizing strong evidence, such as government-issued documents that have been validated by authoritative sources, hardware-backed authenticators such as FIDO Passkeys and strong controls to prevent replay attacks. A biometric binding step ensures that an authenticator stays tied to its verified identity - this helps prevent SIM swapping and MFA bypass by preventing someone else using another person's authenticator to gain access to secure resources.

Strong controls

NIST 800-63A IAL3 verification provides the highest level of assurance that an identified digital identity exists and belongs to its claimant. This typically involves in-person or remote identity proofing with stringent biometric comparison and direct oversight to limit impersonation, fraud and other harmful attacks.

NIST 800-63A IAL3 revision also formalizes Federation Authenticator Level (FAL) standards, which specify the strength of assertions passed between digital services known as relying parties. Under FAL standards, CSPs must validate identifiers and attributes using evidence that provides as high a quality as possible.

Trust Swiftly can assist your company in meeting these stringent requirements by providing a kit containing all the needed documentation, and conducting verification either on site or remotely. Once we complete, we return your kit along with a report suitable for review by security teams and 3PAO auditors - this ensures a reduction of attacks that rely on falsifying, stealing, or repudiating evidence. This process helps minimize highly scalable attacks which rely on falsification, theft or repudiation of evidence to gain entry.