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Mobile banking: ease-of-use is more important than trust, really?
Blog I attended a meeting this week with a company called Vasco that works with authentication software. That’s great, they have some cool authentication tools that produce one-time passwords and they do have a lot of customers.
[October 30, 2008, 18:20]
When two-factor fails review
Reviews With the advent of keystroke loggers and phishing attacks, it's possible that someone else might know your password as well, so two-factor authentication means that you have a second way to prove your identity.
[July 17, 2006, 8:50]
Companies urged to move beyond passwords
News Some security experts have been urging companies to use two-factor authentication — where users present a second form of identification as well as their password — for some time, though not all agree it is the way forward.
[September 14, 2005, 16:40]
Phishing overtakes viruses and Trojans
News As online merchants and banks have shifted towards two-factor authentication, there has been a rise in "man-in-the-middle" phishing sites, although such attacks are still quite rare. Two-factor authentication often involves the user keying in...
[January 30, 2007, 13:12]
UK banks failing the security challenge
News The FSA's Hong Kong counterpart has issued guidelines that all online banks there must supply customers with two-factor authentication, such as fingerprint readers, smart cards, or one-time password tags.
[April 15, 2005, 13:05]
Tarantella moves closer to Windows
News In particular, with the release of Tarantella 3.2, the company has added support for two-factor user authentication, which means that instead of users just supplying a password to use applications run from a remote server, they can be required to...
[February 5, 2002, 15:46]
Passwords are facing redundancy, says Gates
News Last week, Howard Schmidt, the chief security officer for eBay and former White House adviser for cyberspace, called for greater use of two-factor authentication -- where users must supply two forms of identification.
[November 16, 2004, 11:25]
Online banking security standard 'by the end of 2005'
News Banks, according to Unisys, should be aware that two-factor authentication by itself would not be a guarantee against fraud. Banks need to be aware that two-factor authentication makes fraud harder to perpetrate, but it's not a total solution.
[October 17, 2005, 15:45]
Digital Identity Management review
Reviews Topics include everything from identity in virtual worlds to two-factor authentication (the kind of thing banks should be doing to authenticate themselves to customers as well as vice versa). Some may be recognisable: Aleks Krotoski (virtual worlds...
[November 30, 2007, 11:15]
ID management remains problematic for businesses
News Systems cover pseudonymous access, but now there's a need for very strong, two-factor authentication. For Accenture clients which have implemented single sign-on systems, Okin said that many were considering two-factor authentication.
[April 27, 2007, 18:00]
Scaling your security strategy
News Multi-factor authentication makes things much more difficult for the social engineer. Password authentication is single factor authentication; it's dependent on providing something you know (the password) to prove your identity.
[August 11, 2005, 13:05]
eBay must face facts about fraud
Leader When Kilmartin was quizzed about eBay's plans for two-factor authentication - using an additional form of identification along with passwords to identify users - he claimed that the company would only implement the technology if customers asked...
[May 5, 2005, 15:30]
Is the age of the password over?
News Credit card-size smart cards slot into a reader and can be part of two-factor authentication. That said, he noted that two-factor authentication is already in relatively high use in financial institutions for very wealthy and corporate customers...
[February 23, 2005, 15:10]
RSA pushes usability in security
News RSA Security is putting usability at the head of its product goals, as it hopes that future authentication products will be used more widely -- by administrators, not security specialists. The latest version of its Web authentication product...
[October 9, 2002, 9:31]
IBM claims faster encryption technology
News IBM billed the combination encryption-authentication technique as especially suitable to secure mobile communications because of its lower processor requirements. Encryption and authentication will continue to be the core building blocks for...
[December 1, 2000, 10:16]
Identity theft scares online consumers
News The research also found 79 per cent of consumers in Europe and the UK would be willing to use two-factor authentication for banking and shopping. Fewer people in the UK are making online transactions because they are worried about identity theft...
[June 27, 2005, 15:45]
Liberty Alliance turns to ID checks
Talkback Also, if you please, start thinking a few years ahead and think about multiple-factor authentication in which various challenges, responses, questions, answer, data and information travel seperatly from eachother back and forth over physicly...
[November 9, 2005, 20:40]
Mitigating Man-in-the-Middle and Trojan Attacks: Best Practices for Combating Emerging Threats With Layered Security
White Papers As financial institutions across the globe continue to deploy strong, multi-factor authentication, fraudsters are simultaneously developing more sophisticated ways to launch attacks and to circumvent established security measures such as One-Time...
[June 30, 2009, 1:19]
Card Management System Integration Made Easy: Tools for Enrollment and Management of Certificates
White Papers Many organizations are turning to two-factor authentication solutions to verify the identities of users on their networks. A significant number of Entrust customers use Card Management Systems (CMS) to enroll users with certificates that are stored...
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
Leverage the Benefits of a Shared Authentication Network to Help Drive Consumer Retention and Strengthen Competitor Differentiation
White Papers This white paper introduces the concept of a shared two-factor authentication network, and discusses why a shared network for strong authentication is an essential requirement for continued customer participation in online interactions and commerce.
[August 14, 2008, 1:01]
