Securing the Extended Workforce Starts Before Day 1
Organizations are expanding their extended workforce—corporate employees, contractors, frontline workers, and third-party partners—faster than ever. But while access models have evolved, onboarding security has not kept pace.
Hiring and onboarding processes were designed around presumed identity, not verification. Today, that assumption no longer holds. Because most current employees, contractors, and partners were onboarded under those legacy assumptions, organizations now face a trust gap across the existing workforce, not just future hires.
Attackers are increasingly targeting the hiring process as an entry point. Using synthetic identities, stolen credentials, AI-generated deepfakes, and impersonation tactics, they convincingly pass interviews and screening processes to gain legitimate access to enterprise systems. At the same time, fragmented onboarding workflows across HR, IT, and third-party channels, make it difficult to ensure identity continuity from candidate to employee or partner.
The result: organizations are introducing risk at the very moment they seek to establish trust.
AI-Driven Impersonation is Undermining Interviews
Attackers use deepfakes, synthetic identities, and stolen personal data to convincingly pose as legitimate candidates. These tactics are increasingly difficult to detect through traditional interviews and background checks, which rely heavily on human judgment and static verification methods.
Bait-and-Switch Hiring Breaks Identity Assurance
Identity is often verified once, then assumed throughout the hiring process. This creates an opportunity for “bait-and-switch” attacks, where one individual completes verification, but a different individual appears during onboarding or on Day 1, by passing security controls entirely.
Fragmented Onboarding Creates Inconsistent Trust
Fragmented onboarding across corporate, contractor, frontline, and third-party channels makes it difficult to confirm that each worker is the same verified individual who started the hiring process. Without a unified verification program, organizations cannot reliably prevent bait-and-switch hiring, deepfake interviews, or synthetic identities. It also makes it nearly impossible to re-establish a verified baseline for the workforce you already have unless you intentionally revalidate existing users, adding them into a unified program.
Manual Processes Increase Cost and Risk
Organizations rely on manual reviews, repeated verification steps, and siloed tools to establish identity. These processes slow onboarding, increase operational overhead, and still fail to prevent sophisticated impersonation attacks.
The Solution: Verified Onboarding
Verified Onboarding establishes high-assurance identity at the start of the extended workforce lifecycle, ensuring every user is verified before access exists and transforming onboarding from a vulnerability into a control point. In parallel, organizations can use these same workflows to revalidate existing employees, contractors, and partners, closing the trust gap across the entire workforce.
Verify Identity at the First Interaction
Stop fraudulent candidates before they progress through the hiring process. PingOne Verify introduces high-assurance identity verification at the earliest stage to ensure that every candidate is a real, present individual, not a synthetic or impersonated identity.
- Verify candidates before interviews using biometric, document, and data-based validation.
- Detect deepfakes and spoofing with liveness detection.
Unify Workforce Onboarding
Eliminate fragmented tools and processes with a consistent approach to identity assurance that ensures the same level of verification is applied across employees, contractors, and partners.
- Ping orchestrates identity workflows for high-assurance verification.
- Apply consistent verification standards across all identity types.
- Revalidate existing employees, contractors, and partners through the same high-assurance verification flows used for candidates and new hires.
- Replace siloed tools with a unified verification framework.
Optimize Onboarding Experiences
Deliver fast, seamless onboarding experiences without compromising security. Dynamic orchestration adapts verification flows based on risk, reducing friction for trusted users.
- Ping Orchestration capabilities enable dynamic, no-code orchestration of onboarding journeys.
- Apply risk-based verification to balance security and user experience (UX).
- Accelerate onboarding while maintaining high assurance.
Establish a Reusable Trust Anchor
Extend trust beyond onboarding with PingOne Recognize, PingOne Credentials, and/or PingOne MFA for Workforce by creating a persistent, reusable trust anchor for each worker to enable continuous verification throughout the identity lifecycle.
- Issue a verifiable, cryptographically secure digital identity bound to a real person.
- Bring existing workers into this model by revalidating them once and binding their accounts to high-assurance authentication methods such as verifiable credentials, privacy-preserving biometrics, MFA, or a combination of these methods.
- Reuse identity across onboarding, authentication, recovery, and high-risk actions.
- Eliminate redundant verification and improve UX for low-risk events, while stepping up assurance for high-risk activities.
Secure, Scalable Onboarding for the Extended Workforce
Verified Onboarding enables organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate workforce productivity starting at Day 0.
About Ping Identity
At Ping Identity, we make it possible to trust every digital moment across customers, employees, partners, and non-human identities. Whether you’re securing millions of users, fighting fraud, simplifying third-party access, or going passwordless, establishing trust shouldn’t slow you down. Our enterprise-grade identity platform is built for scale, speed, and flexibility and works seamlessly with your existing cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. We help you confidently embrace AI and automation with Runtime Identity, so you can continuously verify the identity, context, and intent of every AI agent and control their actions in real time. With Ping, all digital experiences start with trust. Learn more at pingidentity.com.