Gataca published a blog post dated June 13, 2023 contrasting centralized and decentralized identity management.
6 Ways Your Centralized Identity Solution Holds You Back ↗
What happened
- The post cites a 2022 Signicat report stating financial institutions lose more than €5 billion to onboarding abandonment.
- The post cites a Javelin Strategy & Research figure of 40 million US adults affected by identity theft in 2022.
- Gataca states it provides a SaaS platform and ID Wallet built on decentralized identity technology.
Why it matters to Signicat
- Gataca frames centralized identity as a root cause of risk and positions verifiable credentials as the replacement, a direct narrative against centralized providers including Signicat's hub model.
- The post uses a Signicat statistic to support its argument, which places Signicat's own research in a competitor's narrative; the claim is cited as Gataca's characterization and is not verified here.
Evidence from the source (5 quotes)
- “A 2022 report from Signicat found that financial institutions lose more than €5 billion euro to onboarding abandonment steaming from long application processes and requirements for more personal information.” source ↗
- “According to the Javelin Strategy & Research Identity Fraud Study, Identity Theft Affected 40 Million U.S. Adults in 2022 Totaling $43 Billion in Losses.” source ↗
- “At Gataca, we provide organizations with decentralized identity technology with our SaaS platform and ID Wallet.” source ↗
- “most organizations are still using methods of authentication based on centralized models, which are a root cause of identity-based threats” source ↗
- “A 2022 report from Signicat found that financial institutions lose more than €5 billion euro” source ↗
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