Security News > 2023 > April > While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn

As Elon Musk tears at Twitter's credibility by demanding businesses and individuals pay for their blue verification checks, Microsoft is pushing ts own free digital ID technology to companies and their employees on LinkedIn.

Verified ID is a managed identify verification service that is part of Microsoft's Entra product portfolio, an umbrella unit created last year that covers all of the vendor's identity and access capabilities.

"In our everyday lives, we use identity documents like driver's licenses or passports as convenient and secure ways to prove our identity," Chik wrote.

Verified ID is built on open standards as a decentralized identity process in which an organization cryptographically signs a digital credential and issues it to an employee as a company ID. The employee can then use that with apps and websites, an approach that "Represents a more secure, convenient, and trustworthy way to verify digital information at scale," she wrote.

Beyond employment verification, Microsoft sees Verified ID as being usable in myriad ways, from background checks and helping desk support to helping with hiring by being able to verify the prospect's identity and qualifications.

"Until now, no digital identity could offer similar benefits," Microsoft wrote in a white paper.

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