Persona, the leading global identity platform redefining how businesses verify and manage digital identities, today announced a major update to its Workforce Identity Verification (IDV) solution. The enhanced offering empowers organizations to combat rising candidate fraud, defend against AI-driven impersonation, and seamlessly verify user identities across every stage of the workforce lifecycle—from hiring to offboarding.
As remote and distributed workforces become the norm, organizations face escalating risks from identity-based attacks. Recent data from Cisco Splunk shows that 98% of cyberattacks rely on social engineering tactics. To stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats—including deepfakes and AI-powered social engineering—organizations are moving beyond traditional authentication methods like passwords and MFA, adopting higher-assurance identity verification at critical moments.
Persona’s latest Workforce IDV enhancements anchor access control in real-world identity checks, delivering higher identity assurance during high-risk events such as hiring, onboarding, and account recovery. The solution integrates directly with leading Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms like Okta and Cisco Duo, enabling organizations to strengthen Zero Trust security without sacrificing user experience.
“In today’s environment, ensuring the person behind the screen is who they claim to be is more important than ever,” said Rick Song, CEO and co-founder of Persona. “With state-sponsored actors infiltrating enterprises and generative AI making impersonation easier than ever, our enhanced Workforce IDV solution gives organizations the confidence that every access attempt is tied to a real, verified individual.”
Stopping Candidate Fraud in the Age of Generative AI
Candidate fraud is on the rise—driven by remote hiring and easy access to generative AI tools. According to an April 2025 Gartner® report, Mitigate Rising Candidate Fraud Through Identity Verification, by 2028, one in four candidate profiles globally will be fake. This alarming trend underscores the need for robust identity verification measures early in hiring.
Threat actors are increasingly using AI to generate fake resumes, counterfeit documents, and even deepfake videos to impersonate legitimate applicants. These synthetic identities can slip through hiring pipelines undetected, costing companies time, resources, and potentially opening doors to security threats. The North Korean IT worker scam has seen companies lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Persona prevents candidate fraud by layering real-world identity signals—like selfie-to-ID matching, liveness detection, device and behavioral signals—to catch deepfakes, impersonators, and synthetic identities before they enter the workforce.
Expanding IAM and HRIS Integrations to Strengthen Workforce Security
To meet enterprise demand for scalable workforce security, Persona is expanding its integrations across the Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) ecosystem.
Following the launch of its integration with Okta’s Workforce Identity Cloud, Persona now supports a native integration with Cisco Duo bringing real-world identity verification into enterprise security workflows to help mitigate the risk of impersonation, social engineering, and deepfake-driven attacks.
Persona has also expanded its integrations with Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), enabling HR and IT teams to sync verified identity data with their HRIS platforms. This enhancement improves data consistency, streamlines onboarding workflows, and accelerates time-to-productivity for new hires.
A Solution Built for Today’s Workforce Threats
In 2024 alone, Persona blocked over 75 million AI-based face spoof attempts. This is in addition to the 50x increase in deepfake activity observed over the last few years. The company detects more than 50 unique classes of AI-generated spoofing techniques, combining visual, behavioral, and passive signals to detect even the most convincing fakes.
Persona’s Workforce IDV solution offers a dynamic, privacy-conscious approach to verifying employee identity. With support for over 200 countries and 20+ languages, it adapts to real-time risk using automation and orchestration tools that minimize friction while maximizing security.
Key capabilities include:
- Global identity verification: support for government ID verification coverage in more than 200 countries and territories.
- Rich library of verifications and signals: document and liveness verifications with passive and behavioral signals for stronger identity verification and fraud detection.
- Dynamic employee verification experiences: verification flows that automatically adjust friction based on a session’s risk level or geography.
- Integrations with your identity stack: connections with leading IAM, HRIS, IT, and security tools to automate identity verification workflows
- Granular privacy and retention control: configurations to protect sensitive data and meet global compliance standards with granular privacy, retention, and redaction controls.
- Trackable and explainable insights: transparent and explainable decisions with full insight into every interaction from event details to device and location data.
