What is Digital Identity and how does it bring trust?

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Published 01 May 2022

In a digital world, trust is everything. As technology transforms our lives, secure digital identities are essential for safe interactions between people, businesses, and governments. Thales delivers trusted identity solutions that protect data, prevent fraud, and ensure seamless access to services. From biometrics to encryption, read how we enable secure connections for everyone and everything—every day.

How can Trusted Digital Identity make everyday interactions more secure?

Everyone Everything Everyday

At Thales, we have a vision of a more secure future. A future we can all trust.

As technology transforms our lives, secure proof of identity, and authentication for connected services become ever more important. We are world leaders in delivering secure digital identities, and the means to verify them, for everyone and everything. Already trusted by governments and enterprises globally, our certified solutions deliver the robust yet smooth interactions that keep your world moving, your business growing and digital identity secure, every single day. Building a future we can all trust.

What is Digital Identity?

Keeping billions of daily digital interactions secure

Digital identities are needed to ensure people can trust online service providers and vice versa. Already, many governments and businesses rely on Thales to verify the identities of people and things, onboard them for new services, grant access and encrypt the data that they run on. It is about enabling people, businesses and governments to have confidence in the digital interactions that take place every minute of every day.

Why it’s important

Tackling threats and opening up opportunities

Trusted digital identities are essential for digital transformation. As business growth depends on these digital services, organisations need trusted identities to support rapid development and reduce fraud. Traditional options such as passwords are often not secure enough. Others are inconvenient. So trusted digital identity is required to create frictionless experiences while supporting businesses and organisations to achieve compliance.

Trusted Digital Identity for Everyone

Government

The digitalization of local, regional and national governments has the potential to deliver faster, more convenient services to citizens while delivering organisational efficiencies. Our identity and biometric services allow governments, public bodies and private contractors to keep people, data and systems safe. Our services are backed by robust software security, data encryption, identification and authentication mechanisms including biometrics - all of which address fraud and public security challenges.

Trusted Digital Identity for Everything

The Identity of Things

The widespread use of connected devices opens up the potential for cyber-attacks that are hard to manage using manual IT resources. Our secure identity technology ensures data confidentiality and integrity at the source as well as for the user. This creates a trusted IoT infrastructure for device manufacturers and data professionals as well as peace of mind for consumers.

Trusted Digital Identity by Thales

We offer a chain of trust for organizations and convenience for end users. As the world becomes more and more digital, it is still our people that make the difference. They understand the nuances of different sectors and organisations. Importantly, they understand what motivates people and put the user first to ensure any new digital identity project delivers success and rapid adoption.

Digital identity is part of our DNA. We are already at the heart of multiple markets – from telecoms and government to financial services – and share best practices between our teams. We know that our pivotal position in the digital identity ecosystem and collaborative approach with partners means we can find or develop a solution for our customers.

There are many more people who work hard behind-the-scenes at Thales to ensure every service we provide is seamless for our customers. Testing infrastructure security. Ensuring compliance with the latest regulations. Advancing biometric technology.

Innovation is critical across Thales. Without exploring new ideas, we could not offer the kind of future-proofing our customers need. As a Group we invest heavily in R&D, and our approach to innovation has even won awards, including not just one but two Nobel Prizes for Physics.