Authentication

Even the best technologies take time, making it necessary to rein in expectations about what will happen and won't happen in the coming year.

Even the best technologies take time, making it necessary to rein in expectations about what will happen and won't happen in the coming year.

By giving options, business can ensure that when users are in a hurry and suddenly faced with an elaborate setup for a new logon procedure, they won’t leave for a different provider, writes Marco Lafrentz, a vice president at tyntec.

Traditional screening solutions are not able to process such a huge influx of records quickly enough, creating a queue that the system has to work through, slowing down the customer experience, writes Vincent Gaudel, a compliance expert at Accuity.

Everyday we’re opening the door to new services, devices and institutions, trading off a little bit of “us” for greater convenience, writes Lina Andolf-Orup, a global product marketing manager at Fingerprints.

The bank saw value in Ondot Systems’ ability to empower customer analytics in card controls.

Self-sovereign identity solutions are becoming increasingly common as credit unions move away from less secure authentication methods.

Payment and banking apps are deploying passwordless experiences for convenience and some degree of improved security ahead of a goal to eliminate passwords from the authentication process altogether. We should not, however, conflate passwordless experiences with system architecture where there is no password in use, writes George Avetisov, CEO of HYPR.

Collaboration between banks and fintechs still lags, hurting security initiatives such as an authentication hub.

Payment forms on e-commerce sites are the most common target for formjacking attackers, writes Robert Capps, vice president and authentication strategist for NuData Security.

Payments will melt into the wider commerce experience and create new incremental value for consumers, according to Brendan Miller, a principal analyst at Forrester.

Many companies no longer rely on static passwords alone, and use two-factor authentication to protect consumer accounts. The problem is they're using the same second factor: text messages sent to mobile devices.

Employees are typically a company’s first line of defense when it comes to most threats. As such, it is important to train them on how to identify cloud cryptojacking attacks, according to Anurag Kahol, CTO of Bitglass.

Visa, Mountain America Credit Union and Fingerprints AB were thrilled with their biometric card test, but also faced the grim realization that real world infrastructure may not be as accommodating.

This European regulation means fraud detection will inevitably need to evolve as the fraudsters find new ways to exploit new loopholes, according to Catherine Tong, vice president and general manager for Accertify.

By combining different types of structured and unstructured online data with the traditional offline data and applying data science to it, we can much more reliably discern whether a person's identity is real, according to Sunil Madhu, founder and chief strategy officer of Socure.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is sending a message to the payments industry that it might not be wise to wait on the card networks to solve the growing problem of mobile and online payments fraud.

Multifactor authentication is table stakes in today's breach-heavy environment. Falling short of that standard creates a dangerously high threat, according to David Vergara, head of security product marketing for OneSpan.

All service providers, even those with a strong security posture, are only as secure as the Home Depots, LinkedIns and Equifaxes of the world, argues George Avetisov, chief executive of HYPR.

By intelligently applying friction, where the entry of a PIN or a swipe of the screen can be used to correlate against known data, we can better prove that the correct user made the transaction and avoid the costs and disruption associated with fraud and disputed claims, writes Zia Hayat, CEO of Callsign.