OREANDA-NEWS. October 14, 2015. Several members of the Identity and Fraud Solutions team recently attended the Global Identity Summit in Tampa. Rich Huffman, vice president of identity and fraud product management, spoke on a panel about how government entities are leveraging data when verifying identities to increase security and decrease fraud.

The federal government identifies millions of people every day for many reasons. For instance, last year, 14 million people applied for and received passports. In addition, the government has to confirm the identities of the millions of people who receive Medicare and Social Security benefits before distributing resources to them.

The panel, including Ryan Fox of CapitalOne and Helen Schmitz of Homeland Security, discussed how government programs, faced with ever growing fraud risks, are employing best practices in identity proofing to verify people and to ensure the person is eligible for the program in question. Here are some of the steps the panel recommended to do just that.