Surveys revealed that 27% of the complaints filed by 17,915 military personnel in the year 2011 were actually linked with ID theft alone. In fact, the numbers included both the active people in the military as well as the veterans. The disheartening truth is that those who are protecting us and our country from terrorism are being victimized globally by serious threats of identity-related matters. Bad guys have no heart and certainly no morals when it comes to earning illegally with the help of stolen information. They have been taking undue advantage of military members being gone for long-term deployments. The military personnel is easy targets due to their likeliness of being gone or moving around to serve the duty for several months/years. This high propensity of the active-duty members of being deployed in different regions near borders prevents them from having a regular check on their bills and identity documents which opens wide doors for bad guys to step in. Plus, the fact that on-duty military personnel cannot and are not likely allowed to quit the service without giving long-term notices adds up to the overall situation.

It is of the utmost urgency to implement strong data security infrastructure with the latest technology to protect the valuable personal identifiable information of military personnel. Certainly, traditional and old practices of identity verification and maintenance of such information have not been up to the mark. Traditional practices of using SSNs as personal identifiers for decades among the military have certainly caused this problem.

Let’s understand how it becomes a major problem for military people when their SSN falls into the wrong hands. SSNs have real importance even today. It is still the key requirement to leverage a wide range of purposes and services. It is required while applying for credit card, to open a new account, or to apply for different sorts of insurances and benefits. One never knows for sure if a person is actually the true owner of a particular SSN. No additional identity checks are performed even today if one provides a 9 digit long number. However, this calls for unnecessary troubles of identity theft i.e unauthorized access to an individual’s personal details. 

Enters AZYO! To prevent unauthorized access by fraudsters for financial gains and to drain the victim’s money, it’s important to conduct proper identity verification before granting or enabling any service to an individual.

Automated ID verification solution from AZYO is highly capable of analyzing, verifying, and authenticating any human face on our planet. Yes, you’re reading it right! With the help of cutting-edge technologies, a phenomenal solution is designed to analyze and validate the facial attributes (thanks to AZYO’s Advanced Facial Recognition Technology), pull out information from the identity documents with Real OCR, and authenticate users in real-time through liveness detection, while kicking out the fraudsters.