Remote authentication goes beyond workers doing a daily job. Federal organizations like FEMA must be able to respond to remote needs. If a citizen is in a flood, they need to prove their identification quickly and completely to get assistance. Fraud and abuse are replete in the COVID financial assistance. This is an interview with a company called ABBYY; a company that has a strong reputation in the commercial community for innovation with identity verification. During the podcast Brian Hettinger discusses how ABBYY applies a concept called “identity proofing” to identity verification.