By Helen Garneau
Sure, there are plenty of passwordless authentication solutions out there, each promising to simplify identity management. But in reality, most of them just add another cog to the already overcomplicated Rube Goldberg machine that is most enterprise identity. The question you should be asking isn’t “how can I go passwordless” but —, “what else can I do to make identity management work better for my business?”
The answer is Proven Auth.
Proven Auth is more than just another login solution, it’s about using the power of Verifiable Credentials for orchestrating the entire life-cycle of access so that the right person has the right access at the right time.
Simplifying the messy world of access control
You know the struggle. Managing access to your company’s growing stack of products, systems, and applications is an ongoing headache. And that’s just the beginning. Too often, IT teams are stuck dealing with overly rigid access models that aren’t flexible enough to account for the realities of real work environments, or manual access control that needs to be managed on a per-individual and per-product basis.
Instead, Proven Auth enables smart, policy-driven authorization that adapts to your business needs. It allows you to easily implement policies that define access rules dynamically. No more one-size-fits-all permissions. No more access silos.
Whether you’re managing employees, contractors, or partners, our policy-driven access control makes security seamless and scalable.
How Verifiable Credentials manage policy-driven access
With Proven Auth, you can use dynamic access rules that respond instantly when a Verifiable Credential is presented. Instead of granting broad permissions, you can enforce fine-grained policies that determine exactly what each person should access based on their role, credentials, and other verified attributes.
This means you can write access policies once and apply them across multiple systems, ensuring consistency and reducing administrative overhead.
Here’s how it works:
- Issue Verifiable Credentials using Indico Proven to employees, customers, partners, or have your contractors issue them to their employees that contains information that would affect their access. This could include things like their role, location, years of experience, certifications or other relevant information.
- Integrate Proven Auth with policy engines like Amazon Verified Permissions or Abacus and write policies based on your business’ needs.
- Grant access based on their verified attributes so instead of using static, pre-configured access roles, the world of tools and systems people can access is set up for them in minutes, without needing to log into anything.
The value of Proven Auth in action
Let’s take a look at what this system can do across industries and use cases:
1. Fine-tuned access control
Now you can tailor access at a granular level and carve out access for specific employees, contractors, and partners so they only get what they need and nothing more.
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- A Human Resources employee can access Microsoft 365, Adobe, and Workday, but not Salesforce.
- A sales team member can access Salesforce, HubSpot, and ZoomInfo, but not HR or financial systems.
- A contractor can gain temporary access to specific buildings, servers, or relevant tools without being onboarded into your entire system.
2. No more enrollment hassles
Traditional identity management requires time-consuming enrollment processes, especially for subcontractors and for remote or temporary workers. With Proven Auth, that’s a thing of the past.
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- A global enterprise company hiring hundreds of subcontractors doesn’t need to formally onboard each individual. Instead, subcontractors can present their verifiable credentials that their employer issued them based on their role and other pertinent information to identify themselves and are granted instant, policy-driven access — saving your HR and IT teams countless hours.
3. Compliance and security made simple
Regulatory compliance is easier with Proven Auth because access is governed by real-time policy enforcement.
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- A financial services firm can enforce policies that ensure brokers can only sell financial products they are certified for— helping maintain compliance with licensing regulations.
- A global financial trading firm can set access rules based on jurisdiction, ensuring employees in different countries only access region-appropriate resources.
4. A more coherent user experience
Employees no longer have to juggle multiple logins and inconsistent access experiences.
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- A bank that has 13 different tools available to employees requires a separate login for each. Using Proven Auth with unified credential-based policies, employees can access only the systems relevant to them—with one seamless login experience.
5. Add biometrics to authentication to defend against deepfakes
For even greater security control, Indicio Proven allows you to combine a biometric template in a Verifiable Credential so you can authenticate biometrics for access without having to worry about storing biometric data. This removes the high risk and complex compliance around storing biometric data and provides a simple way around the risk of deepfakes. The real employee has to present a unique proof, issued only to them, to corroborate that they are who they claim to be.
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- An airline creates a biometric template and issues it in a tamper-resistant credential to their pilots to hold securely on their phone. When accessing a restricted area or internal flight system, the pilot simply presents their biometric credential at the same time as a liveness check and the software compares to see if they match.
This is way cooler than just going passwordless. But, even more importantly, it reduces your security risk and compliance burden, and it also gives you peace of mind against generative AI identity fraud.
Why Indicio?
With Proven Auth, you’re not just eliminating passwords—you’re unlocking real business value. Whether you’re managing employees, contractors, or partners, our policy-driven access control makes security seamless and scalable.
Are you ready to move beyond passwordless and start solving real business problems? Let’s talk.
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