In this episode of Tried and Tested, host Isabelle Gonthier speaks with Ian Cartledge from Entrust about identity verification and the evolving fraud landscape impacting credentialing and high-stakes testing. As online testing and digital registration processes expand, identity verification plays an increasingly important role in protecting exam integrity and ensuring the right candidate is taking the test.

Referencing Entrust’s seventh annual Identity Fraud Report, which draws on more than one billion identity verification transactions across 195 countries, Ian discusses the rise in AI-enabled fraud, including deepfakes, injection attacks, and commercially organized fraud operations. The conversation explores how baseline identity verification, biometric and biographic matching, liveness detection, motion analysis, and layered verification approaches can help assessment programs reduce risk while managing friction in the test taker experience.

What You’ll Learn

• How AI-enabled fraud is becoming more organized, commercially accessible, and scalable
• Why deepfakes are increasing across industries and the implications for online testing
• What injection attacks are and how synthetic video can be used to bypass identity checks
• How liveness detection and motion analysis help identify impersonation attempts
• The importance of establishing a secure baseline identity during registration
• How layered identity verification tools can be used across the assessment lifecycle
• Why balancing security controls with reduced friction is critical for candidate experience

Who should listen:

• Credentialing and certification leaders responsible for exam integrity
• Assessment professionals managing online testing or remote delivery
• Licensure program directors evaluating identity verification practices
• Test security and compliance teams monitoring fraud risk
• Organizations seeking to strengthen identity verification within existing assessment processes