Integration Unifies Passwordless Security with Government-Grade Liveness to Stop Fraudulent Workforce Onboarding
iProov, the world’s leading provider of science-based biometric identity verification solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with HYPR, the leader in identity assurance. This partnership delivers a critical, layered defense against one of the most critical organizational security problems: the infiltration of enterprise systems by fraudulent workers, sophisticated synthetic identities, and hyper-realistic deepfakes throughout the identity lifecycle. The solution seamlessly integrates iProov’s government-grade liveness technology into HYPR’s Affirm platform via OIDC. This establishes a zero-trust defense layer at the initial access point, ensuring the user is verified.
The Critical New Threat: State-Sponsored Identity Fraud
Securing workforce access is an increasingly urgent challenge as criminals and nation-states alike adopt sophisticated impersonation attacks. The most severe threats now target identity fraud at onboarding, exemplified by the recent case involving more than 300 U.S. companies infiltrated by North Korean operatives. This workforce identity fraud operation generated an estimated $17 million for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) regime, directly funding programs that threaten U.S. national security and exposing a critical, widespread vulnerability in enterprise defenses.
To effectively combat the escalating threat of AI-driven deepfake technology and synthetic media, genuine liveness assurance is no longer optional—it is the foundational defense. Consequently, the iProov integration is strategically positioned as the uncompromising first step in the user onboarding journey within the HYPR Affirm platform, providing immediate and definitive mitigation against this pervasive risk.
“The integrity of the workforce is under siege, and deepfakes are the new breach vector for nation-states and organized crime,” said Bojan Simic, CEO of HYPR. “This is a wake-up call: zero-trust access is only as strong as the initial identity proofing. By integrating iProov’s certified liveness defense directly into the HYPR Affirm platform, we are delivering an immutable identity baseline that enables true zero-trust security from day one.”
“Enterprises across all sectors are under attack and must take the necessary steps to secure themselves against this quickly evolving identity threat by prioritizing one of the single most critical points in the workforce lifecycle: the start,” said Andrew Bud, founder and CEO, iProov. “By combining iProov’s liveness technology, which meets the rigorous standards of the US government’s NIST Digital Identity Guidelines, with HYPR’s unified Identity Assurance platform, we’re empowering organizations to defend against sophisticated workforce onboarding fraud, including synthetic identities and deepfakes, providing a secure yet seamless user experience.”
Key benefits of the unified solution:
- Definitive Secure Onboarding: The solution is specifically designed to stop fake workers from onboarding into the workforce. iProov ensures the right person, a genuine human, is registering, eliminating the initial attack vector and mitigating major identity threats at the earliest step.
- Proactive Credential Attack Prevention: The integration protects against weaknesses in account recovery and stops credential reset attacks in their tracks.
- Highest Assurance and Compliance: iProov uses its certified liveness check to confirm that the person is not only the right person but also the real person, authenticating in real-time. Its multi-layer defense has been independently tested to meet the rigorous standards of the US government’s NIST Digital Identity Guidelines, providing auditable proof that onboarding is protected against deepfakes and fraudulent employees.
