General Definition 📚
Biometrics:
Unique physical or behavioral characteristics used for identification, such as fingerprints, facial recognition, Activeliveness, Background cleanup, passiveliveness, Image quality check.
Authentication:
The process of confirming a user's claimed identity through credentials, often involving identity documents or numbers.
Two-factor authentication (2FA):
A security process that requires two different forms of identification verification before granting access, typically combining something a user knows (password) with something they possess (token or phone).
KYC (Know Your Customer):
Procedures that businesses and financial institutions use to verify the identity of their clients to ensure they are legitimately who they claim to be, often mandated by regulations.
KYB (Know Your Business):
KYB refers to the due diligence process that businesses undertake to verify and authenticate the identities of their corporate clients, partners, or entities they engage with.
Document Verification:
The process of confirming the authenticity of physical documents (e.g., passports, driver's licenses) presented by an individual to verify their identity.
Digital Verification:
The process of confirming the authenticity of an ID Number presented by an individual against a government database (e.g., passports, driver's licenses) to verify their identity.
Verification Link:
These are links that can be used to verify a customer identity, they can be sent as Private Link, or generated via API or SDKs channel.
Asynchronous Callback
The Asynchrounous Callback service accepts the callback Url and callback Email if there is a downtime the call will be retried automatically and the response sent to the webhook provided by the customer.
User ID:
A unique identifier assigned to a user within a system, application, or platform. It distinguishes one user from another and is often used as an authentication methods to grant access to specific resources or functionalities.
API Key:
An API Key is a unique code or token issued by an API provider to authenticate requests made to the API. It serves as a credential that ensures users have permission to access the API's functionalities and data.
Service Mode:
The operational state or configuration setting of a service or system. It defines how a particular service operates or behaves under specific conditions, such as demo mode, testing mode, live mode, etc.
Updated about 1 year ago