One rite of passage for baby boomers was faking their way into a bar while underage. If you couldn’t borrow somebody else’s license that kinda looked like you (and which would fool the bouncer) then the alternative was getting a fake id. This typically meant modifying...
How 33 Million Identities Could Have Been Spared The Risk A friend of mine in Paris who owns an "appartement" (here, we’d call it a condo) recently had a new sofa delivered. It had to be brought up on a crane and pulled through the window. While this was going on, a...
How The Threat Of AI Is Now, Not Later, And The Way To Fight It Many years ago, Steve Martin did a comedy bit on Saturday Night Live in which he joked about how people thought he was crazy for thinking that robots were stealing his luggage. But all these years later,...
Most often when people speak of cyber-security and user experience, they are referring to consumers. The average joe who banks, buys, entertains, communicates, and educates online is the typically the center of the universe. That’s who makes commerce happen, and much...
This past month, FindBiometrics and Acuity Market Intelligence published a report on digital identity tech, focusing on helping decision makers in particular verticals choose platforms for securing their users and infrastructures. It’s a fairly comprehensive writeup...
Sure, I’m old, but everybody I hang with complains I walk too fast. They can’t keep up. My wife is always telling me to slow down, they won’t run out of beer before we get there, wherever we’re heading. I figure, I’m not going to live forever, so I want to get in as...
WHY THE ROOT OF TRUST ABSOLUTELY MATTERS FOR DIGITAL ACCESS Shakespeare said “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” saying that he would adore Juliet no matter her last name. Alas, our digital world doesn’t look that way. If the name, the SSN, the physical...
Click to Watch the Webinar Replay Hear from Juniper Research's Nick Maynard and authID's SVP Marketing Grace de Fries on how rampant phishing and credential compromise make legacy MFA a thing of the past. Discover how unphishable human factor authentication...
It's time for the market to do something about incomplete MFA for consumers. What Happened During the PayPal 2023 Hack? In early December, PayPal identified unauthorized access into users' accounts. Only now— more than a month later—users are receiving notifications...
While enterprises should be focused on cybersecurity year-round, October is Cybersecurity Awareness month and a good opportunity for organizations to assess their practices and take stock of security trends. Here are four cybersecurity themes that have emerged this...
Recognizing that a portion of our customers’ users may not be willing to or may not be able to utilize our Verified Selfie™ functionality, authID recently released a new enhancement to our biometric authentication solution, Verified – “Dynamic Enrollment.” What is...
Artificial intelligence and biometric authentication (Biometric AI) when combined create a powerful tool for establishing and protecting identity, and biometric data, analyzed and processed using AI, holds great promise for creating a more secure digital ecosystem. In...
Between economic sanctions imposed on Russia and White House demands on the private sector to harden cyber defenses, the American cybersecurity ecosystem has reached a boiling point. Following a 2021 executive order to improve national security, the White House Office...
On May 5, World Password Day, the FIDO Alliance and three tech giants – Microsoft, Apple and Google – announced plans to expand their support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium. FIDO is the acronym...
Over the past two years, businesses of all sizes across many industries have experienced the demand for rapid digital transformation. At the same time, our collective increased reliance on digital networks created an open season for cybercriminal opportunists to...
In our May 30, 2021 blog, Why Organizations Need to Eliminate Passwords – Once and For All, we talked about how passwords have become a gateway to security risks. A few successful cyber breaches stand out on this front. In early 2020, hackers infiltrated the file...
