OLATHE, KS (November 15, 2024) – PSI Services (PSI), a global leader in credentialing and assessment solutions, has announced an exclusive partnership with Entrust, a global leader in identity-centric security solutions, to proactively address emerging threats to ID verification and test security. This partnership reinforces PSI’s commitment to safeguarding clients and test-takers against increasingly sophisticated fraud tactics in the credentialing space.
As digital fraud and deepfake technologies become more advanced, PSI’s collaboration with Entrust provides a multi-layered approach to ID verification and deepfake detection. Entrust technology uses advanced biometric verification, digital identity orchestration, and real-time fraud detection to significantly reduce fraud and help ensure secure, authentic identity verification. This also enables PSI to manage each test taker’s identity lifecycle from onboarding to authentication, delivering a seamless user experience through self-service portals and mobile applications while meeting stringent regulatory standards.
“Our partnership with Entrust marks a powerful step forward in our mission to lead the credentialing industry in test security,” said Janet Garcia, CEO of PSI. “The sophistication of those trying to undermine the integrity of our clients’ tests is advancing rapidly as they have access to new and disruptive technology. Our response through this partnership will allow us to proactively address evolving security threats, ensuring robust protection for our clients and their test-takers. Under the direction of our Chief Security Officer, Wally Dalrymple, this collaboration underscores PSI’s strengthened investment in security. Any test sponsor that is not applying state-of-the-art ID verification and deepfake detection technology is at risk of leaving themselves exposed to widespread malpractice.’’
As part of this partnership, PSI will leverage Entrust digital identity orchestration to support secure and seamless onboarding and identity verification, which includes biometric matching, document liveness detection, and fraud analysis to counteract deepfakes, helping to ensure the credibility of each ID. “This partnership represents a critical step forward in our mission to establish a secure environment for test integrity and protection,” said Wally Dalrymple, Chief Security Officer at PSI. “By integrating Entrust identity verification and orchestration solution within PSI’s sophisticated test security framework, we’re able to stay ahead of fraud and elevate security at every stage of the testing process, from onboarding to test completion.”
With a significant rise in deepfake attempts and digital forgeries, Entrust’s 2024 Identity Fraud Report revealed a sharp increase in deepfake incidents, accounting for 30-40% of all biometric fraud cases, a trend that underscores the importance of strong ID verification in the credentialing sector.
“We’re excited to partner with PSI as they take this significant step toward securing the assessment and credentialing industry with Entrust’s identity verification and fraud detection solutions,” said Tony Ball, President of Payments & Identity at Entrust. “Together, we’re shaping a new era of digital trust, tackling emerging fraud threats like deepfakes, and ensuring candidates and institutions can fully rely on PSI’s testing environment.”
This exclusive partnership with Entrust aligns with PSI’s mission to lead with innovative solutions that build a safer, more secure credentialing ecosystem, while providing clients with a user-friendly experience with security standards to meet the needs of an increasingly complex fraud landscape.
About PSI
We partner with clients in a rapidly evolving assessment landscape to deliver over 28 million tests annually, enabling our test takers to advance their careers and education.
PSI’s long history of testing is grounded in proven science, best practise test development, innovative technology and extensive operational expertise. Our unwavering focus is on providing a frictionless and fair test taker journey without compromising test integrity. We ensure valid, defensible test content is delivered securely through our global test centre network, via online proctored remote testing, or both using a multi-modal approach.
Our certification clients encompass a breadth of professions from healthcare, architecture, finance and IT to numerous highly specialized sectors. And we deliver licensure tests spanning multiple industries including insurance, real estate, barber and cosmetology, construction, and trades.
PSI is a standalone subsidiary of ETS. Together they share a commitment to advancing the science of measurement to power human progress.
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About Entrust
Entrust is an innovative leader in identity-centric security solutions, providing an integrated platform of scalable, AI-enabled security offerings. We enable organizations to safeguard their operations, evolve without compromise, and protect their interactions in an interconnected world – so they can transform their businesses with confidence. Entrust supports customers in 150+ countries and works with a global partner network. We are trusted by the world’s most trusted organizations. To learn more, visit www.entrust.com.