Entrust Cybersecurity Institute Blog Articles
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Identity Verification Trends in 2025 … and Beyond
February 27, 2025 by Jyotsna Pantula & Andy Cease
Identity verification, or IDV, is increasingly important to securing our interactions and transactions, both online and offline. Specific to the digital universe, IDV helps ensure that the individual presenting an identity credential is the owner of that credential and is a live person that is present while conducting a digital interaction.
2024 Cyber Retrospective – Generative AI and Digital Identity Take Center Stage
December 13, 2024 by Jenn Markey
At the outset of every year, we look into our crystal ball to make our best cyber predictions for the coming 12 months. But before leaping into our anticipated trends and predictions for 2025, let's take a look back at what actually happened in 2024 and see how it compares to our predictions from last year.
Generative AI Marks the End of Cybercrime Amateur Hour
November 25, 2024 by Jenn Markey & Rohan Ramesh
From deepfakes and biometric fraud to nation-state attacks and cybercrime-as-a-service, the threat landscape continues to intensify. Technology, especially AI, is arming an increasingly savvy and sizable cohort of cybercriminals, marking the end of cybercrime amateur hour.
Rise of Sophisticated Fraud and Deepfakes at Scale
November 22, 2024 by Jenn Markey & Simon Horswell
Basic but highly scalable fraud tactics that are relatively easy to discern – like phishing – are quickly giving way to AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic identities that are both hyper-realistic and scalable.
The Existential Threat: Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography
October 25, 2024 by Jenn Markey
Quantum computing is poised to revolutionize many sectors, from defense and healthcare to material science and communications. Yet it is also positioned to disrupt conventional cryptography, threatening the world’s digital economy and upending power dynamics around the globe.
International Identity Day 2024: Getting a Handle on Identity
September 10, 2024 by Jenn Markey
On International Identity Day 2024, one starts to ponder the future of – or even the very concept of – identity. Whether physical or digital, identity is essential to accessing education, employment, financial services, and much more.