How to buy identity verification without starting with a demo
Begin with the service decision, evidence and failure consequences before comparing suppliers.
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Status change
Remote proofing guidance increasingly treats resolution, evidence validation and applicant verification as separate steps. A single selfie or document result does not answer all three.
Buyer question
What does the chosen method actually prove? Record evidence authenticity, ownership, authoritative attributes, account binding and fallback separately.
Evidence watch
A headline accuracy rate or certification badge needs a product, version, threshold, dataset, scope and date.
Sector lens
Irish regulated firms should connect technology to their own risk-based CDD design rather than treating vendor workflow as automatic compliance.
Primary sources
- NIST SP 800-63A-4 identity proofing
- Central Bank of Ireland AML/CFT guidance
- ENISA Remote Identity Proofing: Attacks and Countermeasures