The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore alarming gaps in public sector adoption of technologies that could better protect Americans’ access to critical services and information. Right now, we are facing a reality where the very government that regulates identity and customer information programs for banks suffers from not employing those same digital ID and fraud prevention innovations internally. In this session, we discuss and effortlessly apply lessons from the financial sector, and how to prevent fraud attacks at scale in that industry. We will connect the dots between rampant identity-based fraud schemes, massive data breaches, private sector best practices, and protecting citizen privacy and data security.