Verify before you trust.
Limit what an account can do until its email or mobile number is verified, backed by an end-to-end verification workflow — with chosen operations exempted so onboarding is never fully blocked.
1. Why verification gates matter
An unverified account is an unproven claim. Without a verification gate, a single script can mint thousands of accounts to send spam, abuse free tiers, launder reputation, or stage fraud. Requiring a verified email or mobile number before an account gains meaningful capability raises the cost of abuse from nothing to a per-account hurdle — one of the highest-leverage anti-abuse controls available at onboarding.
2. Graduated trust, not a hard wall
Verification should gate capability, not access. A new account can browse, configure, and explore; what it cannot do until verified is the set of operations that carry abuse or fraud risk. This graduated-trust model protects the platform without blocking onboarding — and B5 Secure lets chosen operations be exempted from the gate, so the legitimate first-run experience is never fully stalled behind an inbox.
3. An end-to-end workflow
Verification is a flow, not a flag: issuing a single-use, expiring token; delivering it over email or SMS; validating it without leaking whether an address exists; handling resends and expiry; and recording the verified state for the authorization layer to consult. B5 Secure provides this end-to-end so teams are not reassembling a security-sensitive workflow from parts.
4. How B5 Secure handles it
In B5 Secure, verification state is a first-class input to authorization: the pipeline can require a verified contact for the operations that warrant it, exempt the ones that do not, and do so by policy. It pairs naturally with suspension and activity-data authorization — verify identity at the front door, then keep deciding what each identity may do thereafter.