Digital transformation, facial recognition technologies anticipated to grow despite slowing economic growth

Aadiel Ayob, Executive – Innovative Enterprise Services and Solutions, Sizwe Africa IT Group. Digital transformation has become essential for boosting productivity, fostering value creation and enhancing security. As part of a staged approach to digitalisation, South African companies are implementing insights-driven data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security. In an era of thriving digitisation, which continues to contribute significantly to our economy, facial recognition technologies – also known as digital identity verification – have become a vital tool to strengthen the security of customers and their data. By using facial recognition software, businesses can verify customer identities quickly and securely and protect their customers from costly fraud attacks. As each individual is unique, the software provides an ideal way to verify the identity of an individual by using methods and technologies that identify them based on physical or behavioural characteristics. Traditionally used by banks and e-commerce companies, now any organisation can use face recognition to overcome many of the obstacles associated with more traditional and document-based techniques for validating identity. Digital solutions also provide extra security and convenience for engaging with individuals and validating their identities from any location. Interestingly, many organisations may have embraced this technology […]

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