The Challenge: Combating AI Fraud and Ensuring Compliance

In highly regulated industries such as online gaming, digital banking, and crypto, businesses must balance security, compliance, and user experience. Traditional identity verification (IDV) often relies on repeated checks, leading to high costs and frustrated customers. Ondato maintains security with liveness detection and biometric checks while optimizing IDV for its clients by eliminating long waits and unnecessary steps. However, fraudsters are evolving. They use deepfakes, AI-driven attacks, hooking, device resets, and other tactics to manipulate IDV processes at scale. For age-restricted platforms, deepfake fraud poses an even greater risk. Failure to detect these attacks could allow underage users to gain access, exposing businesses to regulatory and compliance issues.

SHIELD + Ondato = Smarter, Strong Identity Verification

To stay ahead of these threats, Ondato partnered with SHIELD, leveraging its device-first fraud intelligence. By partnering with SHIELD, Ondato optimizes its identity verification (IDV) offering deeper fraud insights at onboarding, reducing false positives, and improving detection efficiency for highly regulated industries.

SHIELD’s Device ID persistently and accurately identifies every unique device, flagging those associated with suspicious activities, such as those linked to multiple accounts or leveraging malicious tools. These insights empower Ondato to fine-tune its verification process — accelerating onboarding for legitimate users while ensuring that potential fraudsters face additional scrutiny. This result is a frictionless yet secure experience for Ondato’s clients.

With SHIELD, Ondato can detect and counter advanced fraud tactics without disrupting the user journey, including:

• Deepfake & hooking attacks: Identifying fraudsters using hooking technology to render deepfake videos across different identities and accounts
• Frequent location changes: Flagging location & login inconsistencies
• Device resets: Recognizing fraudulent devices even after factory resets
• App Cloning: Uncovering cloned versions of the app used for multi-attacks
• Malware & App Tampering: Detecting compromised devices running modified or malicious apps

By enriching Ondato’s IDV process with detailed device intelligence, SHIELD ensures that every verification decision is backed by real-time insights. This results in faster, more accurate onboarding while safeguarding both compliance and user trust.

Privacy-Preserving Compliance

With increasing global privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, businesses must ensure compliance while maintaining fraud prevention capabilities.

SHIELD seamlessly complements Ondato’s stack without relying on personally identifiable information (PII). This helps them skip compliance and regulatory hurdles and focus on delivering a fast, privacy-secure identity verification experience.

The Future of Identity Verification

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, trust and security are paramount. Ondato and SHIELD are redefining how businesses approach digital identity verification and fraud detection.

• Proactive Fraud Detection: With SHIELD AI, Ondato now boasts a multi-layered defense against sophisticated threats like deepfakes. These deeper insights enhance fraud detection and empower Ondato to continuously refine its verification processes, ensuring greater accuracy for its clients.
• Cost Optimization: Ondato’s identity verification eliminates optimizes costs by lowering false positives, minimizing verification errors, and reducing unnecessary rechecks.
• Market Expansion: With SHIELD’s privacy-secure approach, Ondato has expanded its clientele in highly regulated industries, helping even more platforms in the adult content and iGaming world meet strict compliance requirements while ensuring secure and seamless user experiences.

With SHIELD’s device-first approach and Ondato’s streamlined IDV solution, businesses can onboard legitimate users with confidence while staying compliant in an evolving digital landscape.

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