Every October the security industry reflects, and the 2025 reflection is unambiguous: the dominant intrusion path is not the exploit but the login. Stolen credentials, MFA fatigue, helpdesk social engineering, session hijacking; the year's headline breaches overwhelmingly began with an attacker convincing a system, or a human, that they were someone else.
The perimeter moved into the person
Networks have edges; identities do not. Once "who is this?" became the security question, every weak answer became a vulnerability: passwords obviously, but also SMS codes, security questions, and any recovery flow that trusts a good story. Zero-trust architectures formalise the point: verify explicitly, every time, based on strong signals.
The strongest signal is government-signed
The strongest identity signal available to civilians is the cryptographic chip in their passport: government-issued, cryptographically signed, unforgeable at scale. WeVerify makes it usable in any flow: NFC chip reading plus certified liveness that defeats deepfakes and injection attacks, in the browser, in minutes. For the workforce, that anchors recovery and privileged access; for customers, it anchors onboarding and high-risk transactions. Awareness is good. Architecture is better.