Cybersecurity Policy Forum: Identity, Authentication and the Road Ahead

Overview

2025 brings a new year and a new President – Washington will be full of change – but one constant is that Americans continue to be victimized at an increasing pace by identity theft and identity-related cybercrime.

Annual losses from identity-related cybercrime now soar into hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of Americans struggle to recover from identity theft. Meanwhile, the rise of deepfakes powered by Generative AI threatens to send these problems into overdrive. The need for policymakers to take action to get ahead of these attacks is greater than ever.

On Tuesday, January 28, 2025 in Washington D.C., the Better Identity Coalition, FIDO Alliance, and the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) joined forces to present a full-day policy forum looking at “Identity, Authentication and the Road Ahead.” The event featured a number of notable sessions and discussions, including:

• The impact of AI-powered emerging threats to the identity ecosystem – and what tools can be used to defend against them
• The release of the ITRC’s Annual Data Breach Report
• Perspectives on skyrocketing identity-related cybercrime – and what policymakers should look to do about it.
• An update on passkeys and ways that the acceleration of FIDO authentication is finally enabling people to kill the password
• Experiences from identity theft victims, who will share their stories

Watch the videos below: