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RSA Software from Jack Henry
Jack Henry & Associates Inc. of Monett, Mo., has agreed to offer its bank and credit union customers risk-based authentication software from RSA Cyota Consumer Solutions, a division of RSA Security Inc., of Bedford, Mass.
RSA said Wednesday that the banking technology and outsourcing provider would offer its Adaptive Authentication software to the 1,500 financial companies that currently use Jack Henry's online banking software. RSA's software monitors online banking sessions to spot suspicious activity; it can halt transactions and ask people to provide additional information to verify their identities before proceeding.
RSA acquired the technology when it bought Cyota Inc. in December.
"Partnering with leading Internet banking providers like Jack Henry is a key goal of ours," said Chris Young, a senior vice president and the general manager of Cyota Consumer Solutions, in a press release.
Other Internet banking providers and security vendors have made similar deals in recent months. S1 Corp. said it would offer security software from PassMark Security Inc.; Online Resources Corp. said it would offer RSA software; and Digital Insight Corp. said it would offer software from TriCipher Inc.
Naftali Bennett, a senior vice president with RSA Cyota, said an indirect deal like the one with Jack Henry can bring more revenue than one with a single banking company.
Washington Mutual Inc. of Seattle and E-Trade Financial Corp. of New York recently signed on as RSA Cyota customers, but the Jack Henry deal "can grow to be even larger, depending on the adoption rates of the end users," Mr. Bennett said. 
Vasco Offers Digipass for Web
Vasco Data Security International Inc. of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., has an online version of its one-time-password software.
Digipass for Web is a medium-security product for people who bank online infrequently and who tend to initiate small transactions, Vasco said Friday. Passwords can be downloaded through a Web browser and stored as cookies on the user's computer; they expire once they are used. Earlier versions of Digipass were designed for mobile phones.
Cost has discouraged banks from using hardware "tokens" that generate one-time passwords; and some observers have said tokens make sense only for banks' wealthiest customers.
"Digipass for Web will authenticate the non-frequent user, for whom strong authentication was deemed out of reach due to economical reasons," said Jan Valcke, Vasco's president and chief operating officer, in a press release.
