Training AI to fight . . . AI?
Of course, everyone is racing to use AI. At ID.me, it’s just as important to defend against its misuse. The threat landscape is evolving, especially as generative models get better at impersonating individuals and even creating synthetic identities. And since we’re in the business of verifying that people are who they say they are, that threat lands squarely on our doorstep.
One of the great things about AlloyDB is its ability to create multiple read pools. For us, those read pools have become data clean rooms that we can quickly share out with our data engineers and data scientists. Fraud analysts can go in, find what’s wrong, and either remediate or prevent it in real time.
Overall, AlloyDB AI has allowed us to scale our systems 10-20X of what we were able to handle – and with a decrease in price to boot. The impact of this is huge. ID.me has been recognized by the U.S. federal government for its role in preventing large-scale fraud within national systems. A crucial factor in this success was AlloyDB’s built-in high availability and easy-to-scale read pools, which enabled the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)—the U.S. national taxing authority— to seamlessly process over 120,000 transactions per second during the last peak tax season without a blip. This effectively doubled their previous self-hosted PostgreSQL performance.
We’ve been playing with a lot of new capabilities, but the ones we’re most excited about are Gemini Enterprise and AlloyDB AI natural language as they represent a fundamental shift in how we build and interact with AI.
One login. Every system. Zero friction.
Our data teams are big fans of Google Cloud; it’s made their work substantially easier. Since migrating, they can make changes much faster, leading to a 40% reduction in their overall work completion time. And across ID.me engineering teams, the developer experience has improved dramatically. Our teams can ship full product features in days instead of weeks, spending more time solving meaningful problems for our members.
We’ve been able to scale both our infrastructure and trust. With a platform that’s faster, smarter, and built to handle portable identity at massive scale, we’re one step closer to our goal: a secure, digital way to prove who you are, wherever you need it, that works everywhere you need it. You may never get asked security questions about your childhood pet again.
