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Rob O'Farrell is the CTO and co-founder of ID-Pal, an award-winning ISO-27001 certified identity verification solution that enables businesses to verify identities and addresses in real time. ID-Pal supports financially regulated organisations struggling to balance compliance and fraud prevention with a friction-free user experience. The identity verification solution streamlines Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know your Customer (KYC) compliance while offering a robust audit trail. It also offers a seamless solution Peps and Sanctions checks, Adverse Media checks and Ongoing Monitoring for end-to-end AML screening.

Rob is passionate about Information Security, Self-Sovereign Identity and the future of Identity Verification.

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The Horizon of Identity Verification: New Threats and Future Techniques

In the first four articles of this series (Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust (continued)) we outlined the current methods of identity verification. Now we must look towards the horizon. As with any technological evolution, new threats emerge, requiring us to adapt and innovate. As the technology moves for...

18 December 2023 Digital Identity Management

Robert O'Farrell

Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust (continued)

In part three of the series (Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust) we started discussing the tests that computers can perform to verify a person’s identity. We ended that with a discussion of how ID document verification can be used to establish that you are dealing with a true identity. In this article we ...

12 December 2023 Digital Identity Management

Robert O'Farrell

Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust

So far in this series we’ve addressed how humans establish trust in a person’s identity (The Foundations of Identity Verification: Trust and it's Pillar's) and the challenges and opportunities computers face when performing the same task (Computerized Trust: How Machines Establish Our Identity). In this third part of our five-part series, we mov...

04 December 2023 Digital Identity Management

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