Technology will continue to play a vital role in overcoming identity theft by improving ways that individuals and organizations conduct financial transactions and by increasing authentication methods.
In June 2006, A coalition of corporations, universities and federal law enforcement agencies opened the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection, whose mission is to research identity theft problems and solutions. The CIMIP will explore a range of identity theft topics, from its causes to the effect of regulatory action, to improvement in identification authentication systems.