Amazon's cloud gets multi-factor authentication
News The AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) security system was announced on Monday on the Amazon Web Services Blog. Users of Amazon Web Services are being offered authentication devices, similar to those used by many online banking customers...
[September 1, 2009, 15:45]
Convenient Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Web Portals & Enterprise Applications
White Papers Providing single-factor authentication, or password only protection, creates a significant security threat to organizations. Single-factor authentication is easily defeated by hackers and can result in a security breach, financial loss, or loss of...
[October 6, 2009, 1:22]
Enhanced Online Banking Security: Zero Touch Multi-Factor Authentication
White Papers Internet usage and the online banking sector are experiencing spectacular growth. Worldwide, there are over a billion Internet users at present. In North America, the percentage of the population with Internet access is at 68%.
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
Scaling your security strategy
News Multi-factor authentication makes things much more difficult for the social engineer. Multi-factor authentication still requires that you provide a password or PIN, but goes a step forward and requires that you also provide something more.
[August 11, 2005, 13:05]
Two-factor authentication 'not the solution' to online fraud
Talkback Think about two-factor authentication (or even more) combined with sequential response challenges (eg: the bank customer in question would have a piece of paper with a few hundred responses on it and the first transaction would ask for response...
[March 17, 2005, 20:48]
Slovakia's Largest Online Bank Relies on VeriSign Identity Protection to Increase Online Security
White Papers Tatra banka chose VeriSign Identity Protection to enable both multi-factor authentication of users and monitoring for intruders because of VeriSign's reputation for delivering the most trusted and safe online experience.
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
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]
Accenture and Sun aim to widen security scope
News Its multi-factor authentication for managing user access to IT systems and physical facilities means that a user can be forced to have two forms of identification, such as a smartcard in addition to a password, to verify identity.
[April 2, 2008, 16:39]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, warns researcher
News A fundamental issue affects the OpenID authentication system, due to its reliance on the Domain Name System, a Sun identity-technology specialist has warned. This means that, if the underlying DNS system is compromised (for example, through cache...
[August 13, 2008, 15:54]
Banks nearing agreement on Web security
Talkback OVERLORD is 100% securie authentication for all transactions, even credit card transactions, in store and internet, access internet banking and even ATM transactions. The system is at least two factor multi-level and has the capability to...
[February 15, 2006, 4:56]
Zero-day flaw found in web encryption
News Ray, who along with Dispensa works for two-factor authentication company PhoneFactor, explained in a blog post on Thursday that he had initially discovered the flaw in August, and demonstrated a working exploit to Dispensa at the beginning of...
[November 5, 2009, 14:54]
HP launches security products
News HP Secure Advantage also has an anti-phishing toolbar, which provides two-factor authentication and site validation. HP set out a multi-faceted approach to security at its Technology Forum in Las Vegas this week.
[June 22, 2007, 14:47]
Company Memorandum: Watch Your Behaviour!
Blog Against this background, companies can harden their technical controls by use of strong (i.e.multi-factor) authentication for some of their systems, as well as allowing staff to access their systems remotely using additional authentication.
[March 28, 2008, 8:26]
Security breaches down, says IT security report
News Fourteen percent use strong (that is, multi-factor) security authentication A government-sponsored security survey reports that while the number of security breaches has dropped considerably in the past two years, the drop has come at a price.
[April 22, 2008, 17:39]
