Should HR be involved in managing workforce identity risks?

“Deepfaked faces in video interviews, cloned voices calling the help desk, forged documents that pass casual review, synthetic candidates, and executives who never sent that urgent request,” the report read.

“Every technique aims at the same target: the manual verification and human judgment that legacy processes still depend on.”

Addressing workforce identity risks

In the wake of muddled ownership of workforce identity, the report stressed the need to start addressing the issue as early as the hiring process.

“Verifying identity during hiring and onboarding establishes a trusted baseline before someone ever logs in, closing the earliest and most overlooked gap in the workforce lifecycle,” the report read.

It added that identity verification works best when it integrates with existing systems, including HR software, to reduce complexity and minimise tool sprawl.