Traditional in-person proofing processes like IAL3 can be expensive, time consuming and don’t scale with remote employees. Employing managed solutions like HYPR with preconfigured hardware provides a cost-effective remote proofing option that not only meets NIST standards but actively protects privileged accounts against sophisticated threats.
NIST 800-63A IAL3 modernizes assurance levels IAL, AAL and FAL by mandating phishing-resistant methods like FIDO passkeys as well as supporting user-controlled wallets formally.
IAL3 Compliant
Identity proofing standards like IAL3 provide the highest level of assurance when it comes to verifying identities, mitigating sophisticated attack vectors by verifying whether an individual presenting credentials is who they claim they are. A CSP representative must interact directly with enrollees during on-site attended sessions and collect at least one biometric trait as evidence of true identity; ultimately IAL3 credentials can be trusted for higher-stake transactions such as physical access control to sensitive facilities or healthcare services regulated by regulators.
TrustSwiftly’s remote solution for NIST IAL3 verification solves these problems and more – read on to discover more of its workings!
Easy to Scale
Verification in person is expensive, slow, and impractical for remote-first companies. Sending employees across the country for IAL3 sessions can be both financially draining and logistically challenging; while remote IAL3 verification processes offer significant time and cost savings compared to in-person verification processes allowing your employees to remain where they’re most needed.
NIST recently updated their Digital Identity Guidelines with NIST 800-63A IAL3, creating a modular framework with assurance levels identified as IAL, AAL and FAL to accommodate modern security realities and empower organizations to strengthen trust, reduce fraud, accelerate digital transformation while safeguarding privileged data and assets.
Your business can leverage Zero Trust identity architecture to continuously assess contextual risk and dynamically adapt authentication requirements in real time, using hardware-backed cryptographic credentials like PIV/CAC cards, Windows Hello for Business authentication tokens and FIDO2 security keys for authentication purposes to meet AAL3 compliance. Likewise, ensure the integrity of identity evidence through physical or biometric comparison against strong pieces of verified evidence to meet IAL3 requirements and facilitate federated identity transactions using FAL assurance ensuring all parties involved meet similar verification standards before transmitting sensitive data.
Faster
NIST standards incorporate several strategies for combatting identity verification fraud, including multiple fraud detection features like SIM swap indicators, geolocation checks and device activity monitoring as well as N:1 face duplicate detection to keep malicious actors from socially engineering verifications.
The standard also mandates that an individual is informed by email or telephone of their results, offering them an escalation path if needed in order to provide additional documentation proving their identity.
Trust Swiftly’s IAL3 compliant solution offers a flexible and secure scalable platform, suitable for unattended remote devices or kiosks as well as attended ones where a human guides them through each step. This solution includes chat, video, facial recognition with liveness detection and document authentication (including step-up reproofing by risk) to meet NIST requirements while offering an effortless experience to those being verified.
More Secure
The NIST Digital Identity Guidelines establish standards to ensure that identity claims in information systems match up with real-world individuals. They cover enrollment, IAL3 identity proofing , authentication, and federation procedures.
These guidelines establish assurance levels for authenticating an identity, from self-asserted to in-person verification, and outline requirements for an authentication system to serve as a trusted referee, verifying other identities within a federated ecosystem.
NIST 800-63A IAL3 of the guidelines modernizes assurance level requirements for an effective, secure, and scalable authentication system. Deprecating email OTPs and downgrading SMS-based authentication as being susceptible to sophisticated attacks was one significant move taken by this document; remote identity proofing being recognized as a pathway toward IAL2 enhanced scalability while officially recognising it was another – this includes solutions like TrustSwiftly IAL3 solution which offers remote, unattended identity proofing via chat, video / facial recognition with liveness detection liveness detection combined with document authentication along with step up reproofing depending upon risk – certainly meets these criteria perfectly!
