Robert O'Farrell

CTO at ID-Pal

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Bio Rob O'Farrell is the CTO and co-founder of ID-Pal, an award-winning ISO-27001 certified identity verification solution that enables businesses to verify identities and addresses in real time. ID-Pal supports financially regulated organisations struggling to balance compliance and fraud prevention with a friction-free user experience. The identity verification solution streamlines Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know your Customer (KYC) compliance while offering a robust audit trail. It also offers a seamless solution Peps and Sanctions checks, Adverse Media checks and Ongoing Monitoring for end-to-end AML screening. Rob is passionate about Information Security, Self-Sovereign Identity and the future of Identity Verification. Career History Rob in brings a business-goal focus to structuring effective IT divisions. As a CTO and Enterprise/Solution Architect he has over 20 years of experience in high-value systems (multi-million value), mostly with both www.perfutil.com and www.id-pal.com. His broad background covers Computational Physics and Chemistry, Multimedia Systems and diverse systems from designing software for managing electrical and gas national grids to designing interactive 3D music videos.

Blogs

Digital Identity Management

The Horizon of Identity Verification: New Threats and Future Techniques

18 Dec 2023

In the first four articles of this series (Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust (continued)) we outlined the current methods of identity verification. Now we must look towards the horizon. As with any technological evolution, new threats emerge, requiring us to adapt and innovate. As the technology moves for...

Digital Identity Management

Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust (continued)

12 Dec 2023

In part three of the series (Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust) we started discussing the tests that computers can perform to verify a person’s identity. We ended that with a discussion of how ID document verification can be used to establish that you are dealing with a true identity. In this article we ...

Digital Identity Management

Current Techniques in Identity Verification: Establishing a Chain of Trust

04 Dec 2023

So far in this series we’ve addressed how humans establish trust in a person’s identity (The Foundations of Identity Verification: Trust and it's Pillar's) and the challenges and opportunities computers face when performing the same task (Computerized Trust: How Machines Establish Our Identity). In this third part of our five-part series, we mov...

Digital Identity Management

Computerized Trust: How Machines Establish Our Identity

27 Nov 2023

In our previous article (The Foundations of Identity Verification: Trust and its Pillars), we walked through the essence of how trust is established in the real world. Now, in part two of our five-part series, let's venture into the realm of machines. Here we explore the cold yet intricate logic they employ to answer the same age-old question: &...

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