Regula Wins Global InfoSec Awards 2024 as the Most Innovative Vendor of Forensics and Identity Verification Solutions

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2024--

Regula, a global developer of forensic devices and identity verification (IDV) solutions, has won the Global InfoSec Awardsfor the second timein a row. The renowned cyber security experts repeatedly recognize Regula’s commitment to expertise, which sets its hardware and software IDV solutions apart.

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The Global InfoSec Awards is an accolade initiative of Cyber Defense Magazine, a leading mass medium for information security professionals in business and government. This year, Regula has been honored as the Most Innovative company in two categories: Forensics and Identity Verification.

“Regula embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understandingtomorrow’s threats today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.

In an era when the sophistication of document and identity fraud is constantly increasing, rapid and accurate detection of counterfeit documents and fake identities is an extremely important and complex task. Regula addresses this challenge with a comprehensive single-vendor software solution for identity verification, as well as advanced forensic and document verification devices.

The company’s IDV software— Regula Document Reader SDK and Regula Face SDK —comprises multiple document and biometric checks and serves the complete identity verification flow regardless of the device, accelerating customer onboarding and preventing even sophisticated identity fraud. Regula’s hardware offers an extensive set of tools for in-depth document examination and authenticity verification through high-precision magnification, advanced optics, various light sources, and much more.

Regula’s value-driven identity verification solutions extend across a spectrum of industry verticals, including banking, fintech, aviation, telecommunication, government authorities, healthcare, insurance, forensic labs, gambling, and others. The company’s achievements are evidenced by providing hardware and software solutions for identity verification to a global network of over 1,000 organizations and 80 border control authorities.

“We are immensely proud to be recognized by the Global InfoSec Awards for the second consecutive year. This accolade underscores our relentless commitment to developing the most innovative and effective solutions for quick and trustworthy document and identity verification. Since we got the 2023 Global InfoSec Awards, we enhanced our IDV solutions by introducing new liveness detection technologies, for proving boththegenuineness of a personand theiridentity document. Liveness detection is not just another check; it’s a new approach to ensure that you’re dealing with a real customer and an authentic document during remote onboarding or authentication. And it perfectly aligns with our determination to not just meet the market standards but to define them, ensuring that our clients always stay one step ahead in combating identity fraud and enhancing security measures,” says Ihar Kliashchou, Chief Technology Officer at Regula.

Earlier this year, Regula gained silver in the 2024 Globee Awards for Cybersecurity in the Identity Proofing and Corroboration category for securing identity verification processes in various industries across the world. Also, at the beginning of 2024, Frost & Sullivan accoladed Regula with the Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award. The analysts recognized the company as a pioneer and industry leader in identity verification solutions.

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About Regula

With our 30+ years of experience in forensic research and the largest library of document templates in the world, we create breakthrough technologies in document and biometric verification. Our hardware and software solutions allow over 1,000 organizations and 80 border control authorities globally to provide top-notch client service without compromising safety, security or speed.

Regula was named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Identity Verification in 2023.

Learn more at regulaforensics.com.

Regula won Global InfoSec Awards 2024 as the most innovative vendor of forensics and identity verification solutions for the second time in a row (Graphic: Business Wire)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without elaborating.

Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Traveling with Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province and other officials, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. One local government official used the word “crash” to describe the incident, but he acknowledged to an Iranian newspaper that he had yet to reach the site himself.

Neither IRNA nor state TV offered any information on Raisi’s condition.

“The esteemed president and company were on their way back aboard some helicopters and one of the helicopters was forced to make a hard landing due to the bad weather and fog," Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in comments aired on state TV. "Various rescue teams are on their way to the region but because of the poor weather and fogginess it might take time for them to reach the helicopter.”

He added: "The region is a bit (rugged) and it’s difficult to make contact. We are waiting for rescue teams to reach the landing site and give us more information.”

Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather conditions. There had been heavy rain and fog reported with some wind. IRNA called the area a “forest” and the region is known to be mountainous as well.

Raisi had been in Azerbaijan early Sunday to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev. The dam is the third one that the two nations built on the Aras River. The visit came despite chilly relations between the two nations, including over a gun attack on Azerbaijan's Embassy in Tehran in 2023, and Azerbaijan's diplomatic relations with Israel, which Iran's Shiite theocracy views as its main enemy in the region.

Iran flies a variety of helicopters in the country, but international sanctions make it difficult to obtain parts for them. Its military air fleet also largely dates back to before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Raisi, 63, is a hard-liner who formerly led the country’s judiciary. He is viewed as a protégé of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some analysts have suggested he could replace the 85-year-old leader after his death or resignation from the role.

Raisi won Iran's 2021 presidential election, a vote that saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. Raisi is sanctioned by the U.S. in part over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 at the end of the bloody Iran-Iraq war.

Under Raisi, Iran now enriches uranium at nearly weapons-grade levels and hampers international inspections. Iran has armed Russia in its war on Ukraine, as well as launched a massive drone-and-missile attack on Israel amid its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It also has continued arming proxy groups in the Mideast, like Yemen's Houthi rebels and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Associated Press writer Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.

FILE- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi places his hands on his heart as a gesture of respect to the crowd during the funeral ceremony of the victims of Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Jan. 5, 2024. A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, May 19, 2024, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)