Incode has released two integrations for the Auth0 Marketplace that fold biometric identity checks into the login process, including one that requires a live face scan before a user is allowed to reset a password.
Auth0 is the customer identity platform Okta owns and uses to help businesses manage how people sign up and sign in, and Okta has separately worked to tie biometric login to personal devices as a defense against phishing. Incode’s first integration adds its full identity-verification flow as a step that runs the first time someone logs in. The user presents a government-issued ID and a live selfie, and Incode validates the document, checks for liveness, and confirms the face matches the ID. The result, including a biometric reference, a verification score, and a timestamp, is written into the user’s Auth0 profile, so later logins can be cleared with a selfie instead of another document scan. Businesses can set that recheck to repeat daily, monthly, yearly, or never, and can block any login that fails.
The second integration goes after the password reset, which Incode calls one of the riskiest moments in authentication. A reset link sent to an email address proves nothing about who clicks it, so an attacker who reaches a user’s inbox can take over an account in minutes. Incode’s version interrupts the Auth0 reset flow and demands a live face scan, matching it one-to-one against the biometric identity captured at enrollment and refusing the reset if the faces do not line up. A further safeguard compares the identity returned during the reset against the enrolled one, guarding against a substitution partway through an account’s life.
For Incode, the appeal is reach. The company, which has been assembling its identity and fraud stack through moves such as its acquisition of AuthenticID, is presenting the integrations as a way for any Auth0 customer to switch on biometric verification without building it in-house. It is aimed at fields like financial services, healthcare, legal, and HR, where confirming a real person carries compliance weight, and it reserves its sharpest argument for account recovery, the point where stolen credentials and intercepted reset links most often harden into account takeovers.
Sources: Incode
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
