The Importance of eKYC in Preventing Fraud and Ensuring Compliance

Fraud and identity theft are on the rise—is your business truly protected? Traditional KYC methods leave gaps, but Ideco eKYC closes them with real-time biometric verification. Stay compliant, prevent fraud, and streamline onboarding with the future of identity management. Discover how eKYC secures your business before it’s too late!

Reflecting on 2024: Innovation, Collaboration, and Progress

As 2024 ends, we celebrate a year of groundbreaking innovation, strong partnerships, and industry-leading biometric solutions. From enhancing security with IDEMIA’s cutting-edge technology to empowering professionals through the Ideco Academy, we’ve set new benchmarks. As we step into 2025, we remain committed to shaping a smarter, safer future.

IDECO Celebrates International Identity Day

Your identity is your most valuable asset—how secure is it? This International Identity Day, Ideco highlights the urgent need for trusted verification with its cutting-edge eKYC solution. Protect your business from fraud, compliance failures, and identity theft with real-time biometric verification. Don’t wait for a breach—secure your future today.

On-Premises vs. Cloud-Based Solutions for Access Control

On-premises vs. cloud-based access control: Which one is right for your business? The debate comes down to control, security, scalability, and cost. On-premises solutions offer hands-on security and tailored customization, while cloud-based systems provide flexibility, scalability, and reduced IT burden. But which fits your organization’s unique needs? Find out now.

Biometric Voter Registration Implemented for Prisoners in South Africa

Discover how South Africa's use of biometric technology in the electoral process could revolutionise transparency and integrity while navigating through challenges and considerations for wider implementation.

Effortless Access Control with VisionPass SP

Want effortless access without sacrificing security? Discover VisionPass SP, the cutting-edge facial recognition system that streamlines entry for up to 50,000 users. Boasting iBeta Level 2 anti-spoofing, energy efficiency, and a user-friendly design, it's revolutionising access control. Learn how it can benefit your business!

African Governments to Get First Look at Revolutionary Identity Ecosystem: ID4Africa

African governments are getting a firsthand look at the future of identity management. At ID4Africa, Ideco is unveiling a revolutionary digital identity ecosystem that integrates biometrics, authentication, and identity management into a seamless, secure system. This breakthrough could redefine service delivery, security, and trust across the continent.

Visitor Management - The Systems That Keep You Safe

Visitor management is about more than just taking a record of who is coming and going. And that is if you're lucky enough to be receiving the correct information, and your security or reception desk making every single person sign in.

Biometric Technology - An Overview

Biometric technology has long promised to transform the way that people interact with electronics, and for the most part, it has. Discover what it is, how it came to be and current and future uses of biometric technology.

How Facial Recognition Works

If we as humans struggle so much to recognise features on a face - how then do machines do this?

These 18 Sci-Fi Movies May Have Inspired the Biometrics Industry

Star Trek, which aired as a show in 1966 and was made into its first movie in 1979, used biometrics such as voice ID, retina scan, and facial recognition.

The Benefits of Integrated Access Management Systems

In today’s fast paced, digitally forward world, companies look for ways to save time as well as costs by simplifying internal systems. The idea of having to login to multiple systems for one process is a pain, so systems that work together seamlessly are at the forefront of all business operational expenses. Companies want convenience where system on-boarding is simple and learning the processes and software is easy and straightforward. ‍

Digital Authentication Through Biometrics - Your Personal Guard In A Modern World

Protecting your digital identity is not just reserved for the cast of a first grade hacking movie, and being able to authenticate your proof of ownership is not just for those that are trading in crypto currency. In our modern tech-savvy world with interconnected devices, we should all pay a little more attention to protecting ourselves from identity fraud.

Moving Forward With a Plan: Why True Digital Identity Takes Long-Term Collaboration and Integration

Digital identity is more than just electronic IDs—it’s a secure, interoperable ecosystem where individuals own and control their data. To achieve this, African governments must move beyond fragmented systems and collaborate on long-term solutions. A future-proof identity system ensures seamless service delivery, efficiency, and security across public and private sectors.

Why True Digital Identity Takes Long-Term Collaboration and Integration

True digital identity is more than just digitising physical IDs—it’s about creating a secure, interoperable ecosystem where individuals own and control their identities. This requires long-term collaboration, integration, and a future-proof approach. African governments must move beyond fragmented legacy systems to build a seamless, trusted identity infrastructure for the future.

Time to Lay The Foundations for More Efficient Future Elections

With elections costing South Africa hundreds of millions, it’s time to embrace biometric and digital voting technologies. From voter registration to casting ballots, next-generation systems can ensure security, efficiency, and cost savings. Estonia proves it’s possible—so why is South Africa lagging behind? Now is the time to act.

The Brave New World Of Biometric Identification And Passport-Less Travel

Imagine boarding a plane without ever showing your passport. Sydney Airport’s facial recognition program is making this a reality, and South Africa could be next. With biometrics transforming banking, security, and travel, the question isn’t if this will happen here—but when. Are we ready for a passport-less future?

Advances in UV technology for biometric disinfection

7 steps to successful biometric implementation

Biometrics can provide the organisation an intelligent balance of security and convenience if implemented and managed correctly. Biometrics has often been considered a risky and unreliable investment for many organisations. Its rocky reputation influenced by poorly managed and integrated installations seldom factor in key considerations such as the environment, operational impact and legalities. However, the Goode Intelligence study, found that biometric authentication delivers improved security and compliance benefits, and allows for a balance between security and convenience without compromising on either. Biometrics can provide the organisation with a balanced and accessible authentication platform that supports the customer, the business and an omnichannel strategy, but it has to be implemented correctly.

Why Your Business Should Consider Biometric Access Systems

There are many benefits to implementing a biometric access system for your company, premises or building, and it is not only for large corporations. In a world where it is so easy to spoof keycards and password, companies are increasingly vulnerable and protection against unauthorised guests is becoming increasingly vital.

Ending the nuisance (and risk) of visitors’ books

Visitor records are necessary, but the days of the grubby book-based register at the guard house are numbered, says Ideco. Filling in the visitors’ register at the entrance to office blocks or residential estates is a pet peeve of most South Africans: to simply enter a site, they must balance a cumbersome visitors’ book on their car steering wheel, etch out their details with a failing pen, and complete endless fields of personal information. This process takes time, may cause a backup of traffic behind the visitor completing the log, and – worst of all – puts their personal information at risk.

Surveillance evolves as cameras get a brain

Advanced new facial recognition technology is giving ordinary surveillance systems the ability to learn, analyse what cameras see, conduct market research and even proactively mitigate risk. Video Surveillance systems are an important step towards enhanced security, but they have certain shortfalls – they are very dependent on the ability of the control centre and monitoring team to be alert to every moment on every screen, all the time. “With surveillance cameras now in place virtually everywhere, it becomes extremely difficult to analyse who is where and what they are doing, all the time,” says Marius Coetzee, CEO of SA-based identity specialists Ideco. “This means traditional surveillance footage is typically used after an event to support investigations.”