Success Story IDnow
Customer
IDnow
With its Identity Verification-as-a-Service (IVaaS) platform, IDnow provides tamper-proof identity verification for online customer interactions that require the highest level of security. IDnow’s technology uses artificial intelligence to ensure that all security features are present on an ID document and can therefore reliably detect forged documents. Customers include leading international companies from various industries such as Bank of Scotland, N26, Klarna, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, eventim, Sixt, solarisBank, Telefónica Deutschland, UBS, Western Union and wefox.
Challenge
In 2014, a small team of security and IT experts founded IDnow GmbH. Their goal was to make the networked world more secure and enable tamper-proof identity verification for online customer interactions in banking, insurance, gaming, the automotive industry, telecommunications and other sectors. One of the most pressing questions at the time: where should the platform for electronic identity verification be set up?
Solution
The obvious solution for the flexibly scalable operation of a cloud computing application seemed to be the large cloud providers. But because IDnow was already in talks with future customers before the launch, they pointed out their high regulatory requirements and noris network AG as an experienced data center operator in this area. In noris network, the IDnow founders found a partner who met them at eye level and had good ideas for the technical and economic implementation.
Project success
Just nine months after the company was founded, the first product, IDnow VideoIdent, was launched and a success story began. IDnow operates its platform on hardware leased from noris network. The physical base, which can be expanded as required via remote hands service, offers a highly secure cloud platform in a geo-redundant active/active cluster with maximum availability. For the system administrators at IDnow, operation is no different from the flexible use of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) from a cloud provider.
