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Tom Merritt lists five things you need to know about multi-factor authentication. You need to know about multi-factor authentication, or as a lot of other folks call it two-factor authentication.
MFA can help make your organization more secure. Tom Merritt lists five things you need to know about multi-factor authentication.
IDEMIA and Cybernetica partner up to offer governments and other interested parties a new two-in-one digital ID solution. This partnership increases value for eService providers and citizens by offering strong mobile authentication and digital signatures.
In an era of keyless entry, connected cars and computerized everything, you'd think that car theft would be a thing of the past. Alas, as cars have gone more high-tech, so have car thieves.
Passwordless authentication swaps traditional passwords for a system that identifies users by more secure methods such as "Possession factor" or "Inherent factor." By switching to a passwordless approach, companies provide their employees with the same effortless and secure authentication methods that users experience on their smartphones. Passwordless authentication is a relatively new method so it can be challenging to choose the type of implementation relevant to your needs.
Akamai Technologies announced the launch of Akamai MFA, a phish-proof solution designed to enable enterprises to quickly deploy FIDO2 multi-factor authentication without the need to deploy and manage hardware security keys. Akamai MFA uses a smartphone application that transforms existing smartphones into a hardware security key to deliver a frictionless user experience.
FIDO-certified multi-factor authentication provider LoginID this week announced that it raised $6 million in seed funding. Founded in 2019 and based in San Mateo, California, LoginID provides identity protection and control over personal information, helping companies add FIDO-certified biometrics to websites and applications, including ecommerce and banking sites.
LoginID announced a $6M round of seed funding to accelerate the adoption of a passwordless world. LoginID provides a wide range of APIs and SDKs which give enterprises the ability to integrate FIDO-certified authentication in as little as 15 minutes.
GitHub on Monday informed users that it had discovered what it described as an "Extremely rare, but potentially serious" security bug related to how some authenticated sessions were handled. A second patch was released on March 8 and on the evening of the same day the company decided to invalidate all authenticated sessions to completely eliminate the possibility of exploitation.
Transmit Security announced the release of BindID, customer authentication service that is completely password-free. "Is there anyone who hasn't had a frustrating experience with passwords? Whether it's trying to create and remember multiple passwords, answering security questions, continual resets or even being locked out of important accounts - passwords are impractical, burdensome and among the weakest links in security," said Mickey Boodaei, CEO and Co-Founder, Transmit Security.