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November 18, 2025
IAL3 Is Becoming The New Digital Perimeter, Here’s Why Enterprises Can’t Wait Until 2026

Identity fraud isn’t just accelerating; it’s industrializing. AI-powered impersonation, synthetic identities, and deepfake-driven onboarding attacks have pushed digital trust to a breaking point. The result? A record $16.6B in identity-related losses across U.S. organizations last year.

Enterprises are discovering a hard truth: identity is no longer a credentialing function, it’s now the frontline of cybersecurity. The real shift underway is the move toward Identity Assurance Level 3 (IAL3) becoming the new standard for high-value, high-risk environments.

Why IAL3 Is Emerging as the New Default

IAL3 used to be a “government-only” standard; think defense agencies, national labs, or secure facilities. That era is over. Three forces are driving adoption across the commercial sector:

• AI attacks have outpaced unsupervised verification: Deepfakes can now pass standard selfie checks and trick automated liveness systems.
• Zero Trust strategies demand verified identities; not assumed ones: You can’t secure a network built on unverified people.
• Enterprises are protecting IP and AI models like national security assets: Workforce verification is now mission-critical.

The Market’s New Playbook

Leading organizations are re-architecting identity onboarding around three principles:

• Supervised Remote Identity Proofing (SRIP) for in-person–equivalent trust
• Hybrid Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) + human oversight for deepfake resilience
• Nationwide presence networks for frictionless, distributed enrollment

This is exactly where NextgenID is changing the landscape, offering IAL3-grade proofing that is fast, distributed, and scalable across industries.

What Forward-Looking Leaders Are Asking

Executives evaluating identity modernization in 2025 and 2026 are focused on three questions:

• How do we eliminate onboarding fraud without slowing hiring?
• How do we verify a global or remote workforce at scale?
• How do we future-proof identity controls against AI-driven impersonation?

IAL3 is rapidly becoming the answer, because it aligns security, compliance, and user experience into a single, trusted model.

The Bottom Line

IAL3 isn’t a compliance checkbox. It’s the foundation of a modern digital trust strategy. Organizations adopting it early will outpace competitors in security, onboarding speed, and regulatory readiness.

Want to see what IAL3 looks like in practice? Request a walkthrough of Supervised Remote Identity Proofing at DEMO.

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About the Author

Andrew Harding, Manager of Inside Sales at NextgenID, collaborates with federal agencies and CSPs on high‑assurance identity solutions. Specializing in IAL3 and FedRAMP, he champions deployments of PresenceID™. Connect via LinkedIn and email:
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(888) 373‑8648
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