Authentication & Identity

Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, today announced the launch of Smart Redact Server, a powerful new AI-driven platform built to automate the redaction of sensitive data at scale across enterprise environments. Designed for organizations that manage large volumes of regulated content, the solution enables legal, financial, healthcare, and compliance teams to detect and redact classified, personally identifiable (PII), and other sensitive information quickly, accurately, and securely. Smart Redact Server equips teams tasked with data privacy and regulatory compliance, including (but not limited to) enterprise administrators, legal and compliance departments, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations with a fast, reliable, and scalable way to identify and redact sensitive content, whether it’s personally identifiable information (PII), financial records, or protected health data. Building on the success of Foxit’s Smart Redact feature within its flagship PDF Editor+ platform, Smart Redact Server extends these capabilities beyond individual documents to an enterprise-grade, cloud-native solution. This new offering leverages the proven redaction technology of PDF Editor+ and enhances it with robust features, including batch document processing, scheduled compliance scans, multi-cloud integration, and team collaboration tools. Key Features:

• AI-powered detection and redaction of PII, financial, legal, and medical data with over 99% accuracy
• Batch processing and scheduled scans to automate compliance workflows and reduce manual effort
• Support for 47 file types, including PDF, DOCX, scanned images, HTML, JSON, XML, and more
• Cloud-native SaaS platform with integration across OneDrive,

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AtData, an innovator in email address intelligence, data security, and digital trust solutions, introduced Validation 2.0, a next generation framework redefining email validation.  AtData’s next generation email validation leverages its behavioral activity network to provide ongoing, real-time, intelligence-driven verification. This enables marketers to confirm an email is legitimate and understand its real-world activity, engagement likelihood, and potential risk.  Brian Burke, AtData’s VP of Product “By integrating our exclusive scoring, monitoring and trust functionality, we’re empowering marketers with real-time, predictive insights so they can prioritize engaged consumers, suppress inactive or risky addresses, and cut through the inbox clutter with more confidence.” Powered by AtData’s proprietary scoring, monitoring, and detection infrastructure, Validation 2.0 delivers continuous visibility into email address health, value, and risk. This includes signals indicating behavioral engagement, identity changes, and threat indicators such as disposable or bot-generated addresses. AtData’s always-on framework supports better customer segmentation from the moment of email collection helping improve engagement and increasing ROI. With inboxes more competitive, data decay accelerating, and promotion abuse rising, organizations need advanced email verification. Combining AtData’s deep identity expertise, advanced machine learning, and decades of historical email intelligence gives marketers the full picture, allowing them to send smarter and act faster to build trust.

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With enterprise agentic automation fast becoming a reality, CIAM providers are racing to address the unique requirements posed by autonomous AI agents. To authenticate and interact with a third-party B2B application on behalf of a human user, AI agents need programmatic and persistent access, typically requiring token-based authentication and complex OAuth flows. Frontegg’s recently released Frontegg.ai takes an end-to-end approach, delivering out-of-the-box solutions for advanced use cases that require the integration of multiple B2B applications. The AI agent and all required third-party integrations can be created and configured in the Frontegg.ai dashboard in just a few minutes. The code for the authentication interface is automatically generated for both web and mobile applications and the platform handles the creation, refreshing, and deletion of all OAuth access tokens. This end-to-end authentication and authorization functionality can be integrated into the agent code with just a few lines. One of the innovative products being developed using Frontegg.ai is an analytics support agent that intelligently creates visualizations from source data, based on the requirements of different business personas and communicates them on a regular basis. The idea is that rather than manually visiting a portal to configure dashboards, users will interact with the AI agent outside of the portal as an intelligent analytics assistant. Some of the CIAM providers that support identity and access management for AI agents include: 1) Auth0’s Auth for gen AI enables multiple accounts for third-party applications to be linked into a single, unified profile. Users only need to authenticate once to authorize an AI agent to interact with all of the connected applications connected to their accounts.

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Argyle, a US service provider automating income and employment verifications, has launched asset verification powered by Mastercard’s Open Finance technology. This allows lenders to confirm borrowers’ balances, cash-to-close, and cash-flow history, along with income and employment. The integration of Mastercard’s Finicity with Argyle’s payroll connections streamlines verification processes. The new solution offers Argyle’s customers unique advantages: Frictionless delivery: Asset, income and employment verifications can be embedded directly in the loan application process at the point of sale (POS), helping lenders evaluate borrowers quickly and efficiently. Reports are generated in seconds and arrive in a GSE‑accepted format. Rent payment history: Service providers can access up to 24 months of transaction history, enabling the use of rent payment history and cash flow trends in underwriting or applicant decisions. This expanded view of consumer financial behavior supports credit access for first-time homebuyers and borrowers who may lack traditional credit histories. Centralized support: Argyle’s support team ensures service providers benefit from a streamlined service across all verification types, including payroll, banking and document-based workflows.

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AU10TIX has launched continuous risk monitoring as part of its advanced AML solution. Driven by customer demand, this powerful capability delivers real-time risk insights across the full customer lifecycle—empowering businesses to detect behavioral anomalies and emerging threats as they arise. AU10TIX’s continuous monitoring capability proactively scans top data sources including global sanctions lists, politically exposed person (PEP) databases, and adverse media in real time to detect anomalies as they emerge. The system dynamically adjusts screening intensity based on customer risk profiles and business requirements—supporting KYC and KYB processes while ensuring adherence to evolving global regulations. AU10TIX’s AML solution features a proprietary decision-making mechanism, customizable workflows, and a user-friendly dashboard to streamline risk management and due diligence processes. The new capability provides: Real-time fraud and money laundering alerts; Adaptive risk scoring, continuously recalibrated based on real-time data and changing user behavior; Flexible thresholding tailored to customer risk levels; Coverage across 240+ countries and 1,600 government sites; A unified dashboard for identity verification and AML results; and Seamless KYC + KYB support in a single compliance flow

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Experian announced the integration of Mastercard’s identity verification and fraud prevention technology into the Experian Ascend Platform. This collaboration will enable seamless, secure, and efficient identity verification for global clients, helping to prevent fraud and cybercrime. A key feature in Experian’s Identity and Fraud solutions, identity verification, plays a vital role in the fight to prevent fraud and cybercrime. Mastercard’s Identity Insights enriches Experian’s data by verifying and connecting identity elements, aiming to validate individuals’ authenticity. When combined with Experian’s advanced fraud-detection capabilities, the integration offers robust protection against synthetic identity and application fraud, enhancing detection while reducing friction for legitimate customers. The joint solution delivers powerful identity assessment by uniting the Experian Ascend Platform—a decision engine built on Experian’s comprehensive data, strategy design, decision automation, monitoring and reporting—with Mastercard’s Identity Insights for validating identity elements such as name, email, and phone numbers, and analyzing related metadata.  Greg Wright, Executive Vice President of Identity and Fraud, Experian Software Solutions said, “By enabling clients with advanced analytics solutions that bring credit, identity, and fraud data into the Ascend Platform, we help them achieve their strategic goals while also driving greater financial inclusion for consumers.”

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Vouched announced the launch of several initiatives to ensure the coming ecosystem of AI Software Agents is built on a foundation of strong identity and trust. These include Agent Reputation Directory, a groundbreaking solution designed to address the critical gap in identity and trust for autonomous software agents – or, how to tell good agents from bad. As AI agents become increasingly integral to digital workflows, this tool ensures that only verified, trustworthy agents can participate in sensitive operations-protecting organizations and individuals from fraud, impersonation, and unauthorized access. As AI agents increasingly represent individuals and organizations in digital interactions, Vouched’s Know Your Agent introduces a suite of innovations that close critical identity gaps: 1) MCP-I (MCP-Identity): A proposed extension to the MCP protocol, MCP-I adds robust identity capabilities for both agents and humans, enabling secure, identity-aware communication in agent-based ecosystems. 2) Vouched MCP-Identity Server: A turnkey SaaS solution with easy-to-integrate APIs for strong identity verification in agent systems and applications. It includes a developer toolkit for AI agents to securely store verified credentials and delegations. Aligned with the MCP-I specification, the SDK supports scalable, standards-based identity integration for AI-driven workflows. 3) Know That AI (http://knowthat.ai): A transparent Agent Reputation Directory that allows users to verify agent identities and review reputation data, with a core focus on fraud prevention and digital trust. Know That AI is a community-driven system where MCP Servers can report on the behavior of software agents (good or bad) to lead to a community-driven assessment of that agent’s trustworthiness.

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New exemption orders from agencies including FinCEN, OCC and FDIC now permit banks to collect tax identification number (TIN) information from third parties rather than solely from the financial institution’s customer.  That rule requires written procedures that allow a bank to obtain TIN information prior to opening an account and “are based on the bank’s assessment of the relevant risks.” The agencies stressed that the exemption is optimal, as banks are not required to use third-party providers. “The Order will benefit both consumers and the banking industry by promoting innovation and financial inclusion and providing banks more flexibility to operate in a manner that suits their business model,” OCC acting head Rodney Hood said. The agencies said that the new order supports the greater use of online and mobile channels to use online verification services to ensure compliance with KYC rules. In the order itself, the agencies stated that “reliable alternatives exist for verification today that did not exist or were not as prevalent twenty years ago” when customer identification processes were codified, adding that “there could be circumstances in which such processes produce an equivalent or more reliable outcome when banks are permitted the flexibility to change their method of TIN collection based on the bank’s assessment of the relevant risks. The combination of the increase in vulnerability of TINs to identity theft and the availability of reliable alternative options for verification lessens the importance of the specific method of TIN collection for identity verification.” The order added that “while FinCEN and the Agencies are not prescribing specific alternative processes for banks, such processes should take into consideration the purpose of the CIP Rule—to ensure a bank is able to form a reasonable belief that it knows the true identity of each customer—and the bank’s assessment of the relevant risks, including those presented by the various types of accounts maintained by the bank, the various methods of opening accounts provided by the bank, the various types of identifying information available, and the bank’s size, location, product and service offerings, and customer base.”

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PlainID, global provider of Identity Security, introduces Policy Management for Agentic AI. Policy Management for Agentic AI enables organizations to define granular policies that control what data AI agents can access, how they process it, and which actions they may take—ensuring that every AI-driven workflow abides by corporate and regulatory mandates. Key capabilities include: Identity-aware control – Enforce access based on human and non-human identity (NHI). Dynamic, fine-grained policies – Apply adaptable controls to every AI Agent interaction with data, APIs and services. Centralized policy management – Manage and govern all policies in one unified, standardized interface. Seamless integration – With popular AI platforms and orchestration frameworks Zero Trust Alignment – Ensure AI operations align with enterprise security and compliance frameworks, by design. Auditability – Gain full visibility into AI decision chains, access attempts, and policy outcomes. “As enterprises accelerate AI initiatives, PlainID empowers teams to govern AI data and decisions without compromising innovation. Through policy management and access enforcement, we ensure every AI interaction is secure, compliant, and policy-aware,” said Gal Helemski, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of PlainID.

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Mastercard and PayPal have partnered to co-develop features using Mastercard’s One Credential, a solution that enables consumers to use a single credential when shopping online or in-store. The companies aim to use this solution to give consumers more choice and control over how they pay at checkout, allowing them to access multiple payment options. One Credential can also help PayPal users improve their creditworthiness and progress from debit to installments and other structured credit. “We both want to reduce friction for consumers and bring them more power over how they pay,” Chris Sweetland, senior vice president of partnerships at PayPal, said. Bunita Sawhney, chief consumer product officer at Mastercard, said that the partnership with PayPal will build on “our collective strength of global payments innovation. With One Credential, we’re delivering the personalized digital experiences that build consumer confidence and trust.”  Mastercard’s One Credential will allow consumers to choose to pay with debit, installments, prepaid or credit. Users can set their preferences online or in an app. They can also set preferences based on transaction type and time. For example, users can specify their checking account for expenses under $100, their credit card for expenses over $100 and installments for occasional larger purchases. Mastercard is now rolling out One Credential as a network-level capability worldwide.

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