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Persona

About Persona

Persona provides a platform to verify real people and real businesses online. The platform is modular and supports verifying users, preventing fraud, and orchestrating identity across the identity life cycle. The platform is configurable to adapt to different regulations and use cases, including identity verification, KYC/AML, KYB, and age assurance. Persona provides a portal for consumers to manage their privacy and personal data requests. Persona aligns its security and privacy practices with recognized industry standards and maintains compliance certifications.

Products

Verifications: Verifies identities using modern signals and authoritative records.
Dynamic Flow: Builds custom information-collection flows.
Workflows: Automates identity processes for use cases like KYC, KYB, and workforce verification.
Graph: Detects coordinated fraud through link analysis and signals.
Cases: Lets teams or platform agents review cases and investigate activity.
Relay: A product described as a way to balance trust and privacy.

Used for

Verifying individuals and businesses online.
Automating KYC, KYB, and workforce verification processes.
Detecting coordinated fraud rings through link analysis.
Collecting passive, active, and behavioral signals to assess user risk.
Investigating user connections to block fraud rings.

Who it is for

Startups and the world's largest companies use the platform.
Eligible SMBs, venture-backed startups, and developers can apply to the Startup Program.
Organizations of any industry, use case, and size are addressed by the pricing plans.

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How to evaluate Identity & Access Management

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Persona. It comes from our Identity & Access Management (IAM) buyer guide.

30%

Authentication & SSO

Phishing-resistant MFA and passkeys/FIDO2 as first-class methods, device-bound credentials, SAML/OIDC/WS-Fed breadth, adaptive and risk-based step-up, device trust, session management and continuous evaluation, and graceful fallback and recovery that does not become the help-desk attack vector

20%

Lifecycle & Provisioning

HR-driven joiner-mover-leaver automation, SCIM and LDAP provisioning, depth and maintenance of the application connector catalog, self-service access requests, fast and reliable deprovisioning, and handling of contractors, partners, and seasonal populations

15%

Directory & Hybrid Architecture

Universal/cloud directory, coexistence with on-prem Active Directory and LDAP, hybrid agents and write-back, multi-domain and multi-forest support, data residency options, and the resilience and blast radius of the directory as a revenue-critical dependency

15%

Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)

Post-authentication risk evaluation, session and token-theft detection, anomaly and impossible-travel signals, identity security posture (dormant accounts, over-privilege, MFA gaps), and how cleanly signals flow to and from the SIEM/XDR and trigger automated response

10%

Machine & Agent Identity

Issuance of scoped, short-lived credentials for service accounts, workloads, and first-party APIs (OAuth client-credentials, workload identity federation), discovery and governance of non-human identities, secrets handling, and emerging support for AI-agent identities acting on a user’s behalf

10%

Deployment, Integration & Commercial Fit

Pre-built connectors for your actual top applications (verified, not catalog-counted), migration tooling and coexistence, API and SDK quality, administrative usability, the pricing unit relative to your user and machine population, and the realism of support and professional services

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