Government Digital Identity – Combatting Fraud

Our regular chairman, David Bicknell, welcomes all delegates, sponsors, and speakers to our conference and sets out the day’s agenda.

The conference begins with an analyst keynote from a representative on one of the UK’s leading analyst firms. Insight and commentary on the current state of play of the UK digital identity sector, with particular focus on the developing situations within the public sector.

A senior government official will discuss the current state of play of digital identity for the whole economy and plans for future policy development of digital identity across the public sector as a whole. 

The UK Government’s published the Trust Framework guidelines in 2021, to sets out a path that guides the principles, policies, procedures and standards in the use of digital identity when transacting with government services. This session will explore the details of the Trust Framework in the context of citizen identity requirements for the 2020s and beyond. The panel will look at the likelihood of acceptance of the rules of the Trust Framework road for both citizens and vendors. Is the Trust Framework a less prescriptive approach than Verify and can it, therefore, offer a citizen ID that will work for all stakeholders?  And, could the consistency baked into the framework be its Achilles Heel?

Have your questions ready for the panel.

We speak with a member of the LexisNexis ® Risk Solutions team about their expertise in fighting fraud in both the private and public sectors.

Are attributes a central component of a citizen identity platform, and if so, how are they best incorporated into that platform. Within this, we will consider what part decentralised identity plays in an attribute-centric citizen identity platform?

We speak with Aarti Samani, SVP of Product and Marketing at the innovative and successful Identity provider iProov to discuss tackling fraud and some of the challenges ahead that face the public sector specifically.

A discussion led by Kirsty Innes, Head of Digital Government at The Tony Blair Institute for Change.  This session aims to set Digital ID in the broader context of efforts to drive government digital transformation, and examine how the pandemic has accelerated and hindered progress.

We speak with a representative of Accenture, to discuss the issue of fraud and some of the challenges ahead facing the public sector specifically.

At our virtual conference in November 2020, we presented the findings of our Local Authority Digital Identity Survey, which gave some great insight into the current situations across multiple councils and local government organisations across the UK. Jessica Figueras will give an update on some of the work we have done in this space during 2021 and discuss some of the opportunities for local. authorities to move forwards with their various digital identity projects.

Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK, and we need to do something about it. Cifas research has found three in every five cases of fraudulent conduct filed to the National Fraud Database relate to identity fraud, the vast majority involve criminals impersonating innocent victims in order to set up new accounts and facilities. This not only impacts the organisation being targeted, but also the victim left in fear as to what else may be done in their name.

Join Sandra Peaston, Director of Research and Development at Cifas, as she discusses the trends and enablers of identity fraud, explores the potential impact of digital identities, and outlines the standards for digital identity schemes recommended in the OIX fraud controls guide co-authored by Cifas.

This panel session focuses on shared insight from companies fighting against fraud in the private sector. It considers regulations, tools and examples best practice that can help public sector organisation in its anti-fraud activities.

In this session we speak with a digital identity lead from Okta, who share their insight into battle fraud with examples of success in the public sector.

This regular session look at examples of best digital identity practice, experience and learnings from identity experts across Europe and beyond. Normally we hear from global suppliers and industry experts, but for this conference we will be hearing from Identity professionals from various governments around the world to learn about their various experiences and enable us to get a wider perspective on the important identity issues for governments across the globe.

We close with our regular panel session discussing what tomorrow’s identity sector might look like.

Our chair, David Bicknell, summarises some of the of the sessions that you have heard this morning and that you can still view a breakout session with one of our supplier partners.