Trusted Key: Driving Innovation to Secure Digital Identities

To say that access to offline experiences are all moving online is to understand the shifting tide of the global business infrastructure. Today, any task, from calling a cab to paying utility bills, can be accomplished through a smartphone app. With everything being interconnected over the internet, our existence in the cyberspace pivots around the usernames and passwords used to authenticate our every activity and transaction. What of identity security then? The password-based paradigm is crumbling in the face of relentless hacks and breaches. Using the same password across different sites creates a wide-open vulnerability for hackers to exploit and take-over user accounts. And with a growing number of services requiring the user to provide a government-issued ID such as a driver’s license, a cyber-attack further increases the risk of information leakage and identity theft.”

What is the answer to these identity security challenges? Trusted Key represents a fundamentally different approach to identity that puts the user at the center, allowing them to login to systems and share information with services in a secure way. “We leverage mobile phones, strong cryptography, and blockchain technology to provide a secure, easy-to-use, and flexible identity management solution,” states Prakash Sundaresan, founder and CEO of Trusted Key.

The Trusted Key mobile app, available as a free download on both Apple and Android app stores, acts as a “Digital Identity Wallet.” The app uses biometrics to secure cryptographic keys that allow the user to login to systems without passwords. It also allows users to bring online their government-issued IDs (from over 190 countries) and turn them into cryptographic tokens registered on a blockchain. Users can use these tokens to securely establish their identity with any online service. For example, users can securely and easily provide the KYC (Know-Your-Customer) information required to open bank accounts right from their mobile phones.

Trusted Key provides SDKs that enable enterprises and developers to embed these capabilities into their apps with little to no coding. For example, developers can seamlessly integrate secure login without passwords into their app or service using standards-based APIs.