Episode 130: NSTIC winner: Confyrm

Published: Oct. 6, 2014, 4 p.m.

Barely two-years-old, Confyrm is making a big impact with a $2.4 million two years pilot project that will demonstrate ways to minimize loss when criminals create fake accounts or take over online accounts. A key barrier to federated identity \u2014 where an identity provider \u201cvouches\u201d for an individual at other sites \u2014 is the concern that accounts used in identity solutions may not be legitimate, or in the control of their rightful owner. Andrew Nash, founder and CEO of Confyrm, fills Gina Jordan in on some of the details surrounding the pilot.