Electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) frameworks underpin banking, mobility, telecom and public services, yet their rapid digitization has created systemic weaknesses that attackers exploit at scale. Weak document provenance, broken verification flows and blind trust in "official" digital artifacts allow forged identities, unauthorized document access and irreversible data abuse. Once identity data leaks, it cannot be revoked, creating lifelong exposure for individuals and national infrastructure alike. Addressing these risks requires rethinking how identity data is issued, scoped, verified and retired, with stronger life cycle controls and purpose-bound usage rather than perpetual reuse.

In this session, led by Kartik Lalan, senior security engineer at Philips Innovation Campus, you will learn:

• How verification failures across digital wallets, QR codes and portals erode trust;
• How video-based identity checks and deepfake automation amplify fraud risk;
• Why centralized identity numbers increase exposure instead of reducing fraud.