Age Assurance Software is AI-powered technology that estimates a person’s age by analyzing facial images or video, typically without needing identity documents. It uses machine learning, computer vision, and behavioral analysis to predict the user's probable age from selfies, live camera feeds, or uploaded images. Core features include facial age estimation, real-time liveness detection to prevent spoofing through photos, videos, or deepfakes, support for multiple input formats, and strict data privacy compliance to meet regulations like GDPR and COPPA. By delivering fast, non-intrusive verification, this software helps businesses lower onboarding costs, protect user privacy, reduce fraud risk, and meet regulatory obligations for age-restricted services. It is widely used by industries such as online gaming, social media, e-commerce, fintech, digital identity providers, and regulatory agencies that require secure, efficient, and privacy-preserving age verification.
Gartner defines identity verification (IDV) as the combination of activities during a digital interaction that brings a real-world identity claim within organizational risk tolerances. Identity verification capabilities — delivered as SaaS, software or an appliance — provide assurance that a real-world identity exists and that the individual claiming the identity is its true owner and is genuinely present during the digital interaction. The purpose of identity verification is to establish confidence in the real-world identity of a person during a digital interaction when curated credentials do not exist, are not available or do not provide sufficient assurance.
Legal refers to products and services that support legal practice, regulatory compliance, and legal operations across law firms, corporate legal teams, and government agencies. This category includes markets that focus on enabling organizations to manage contracts, litigation, intellectual property, legal documents, ensure compliance, and enhance operational efficiency.
Gartner defines the OFD market as the market for solutions that detect and prevent fraudulent actions within digital channels (browsers and mobile apps). OFD solutions provide a spectrum of capabilities within digital channels to prevent direct and indirect financial losses and to mitigate risks. Their core capabilities: Mitigate the activity of malicious automated bots; Detect account takeover (ATO) attacks and trigger remedial actions; Detect fraudulent activity in high-risk events along the digital customer journey, such as when customers make payments, transfer funds, perform account management actions or access personally identifiable information (PII). (Retired as of May-06-2026).
The third-party risk management (TPRM) technology market offers solutions to identify, assess, manage, monitor and report on third-party risks associated with vendors, suppliers, distributors, agents, partners or other third parties. Solutions in this market can support a wide range of TPRM workflows across various risk domains. TPRM platforms in this market address the needs of a diverse range of customers and risk domains, including legal, compliance, procurement, supply chain, IT, cybersecurity and other teams that work with or provide routine oversight of third parties. Some technology solutions offer enterprise third-party risk management workflow as a feature, along with risk tiering, due diligence, risk mapping, metrics and reporting mechanisms. Other platforms may facilitate integration with risk data subscriptions, data aggregators or other subscriptions. The TPRM technology market is a complex array of solutions servicing many business functions across an enterprise. TPRM solution providers can be categorized into technology platforms and tools, or risk-domain-specific data and insights.