Identification Standards

The Identification Standards work together to help prevent identify theft, fraud and loss of privacy.

  • Overview of the Identification Standards

    The New Zealand Identification Standards work together to provide assurance that an organisation has the right information about the right entities, helping minimise the risk of identity fraud.

  • Applying the Standards

    Read about which standards to use when carrying out identification processes.

  • Information Assurance Standard

    This standard provides specific information management controls to ensure information collected is suitable for accurate decisions to be made regarding the eligibility or capability of an Entity.

  • Binding Assurance Standard

    This standard provides specific controls for ensuring an entity is appropriately bound to their entity information in order to prevent identity theft.

  • Authentication Assurance Standard

    This standard provides the controls used to ensure that 1 or more Authenticators are still possessed and solely controlled by the authorised holder.

  • Federation Assurance Standard

    This standard provides additional controls for parties that provide credentials and/or presentation facilitation mechanisms on which others rely.

  • Superseded Standards

    Standards that have been superseded by the new Identification Standards.

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