Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere, or it would be soon. The age of machine learning is upon us, and few active technology users haven’t yet tried their luck with Siri or Alexa, or tested out another brand … Continue Reading
Social engineering in the mobile era?
While cleaning up my spam folder, I noticed an email from Amazon.com with the subject title “ You just need to confirm your account”. Before deleting the email, I clicked on it to make sure I was not deleting a … Continue Reading
Privacy considerations for Behavioral Biometrics
A wide variety of behavioral biometric types are currently being phased in for use across North America, including both continuous and adaptive biometric credentials. With 2017 shaping up to be the biggest year yet for cyber fraud according to last … Continue Reading
2017 is going to be the year of Behavioral Biometrics
2017 – The Year of Behavioral Biometrics? 2016 has been a challenging year for politics, public sanity and celebrity longevity, but also, for individuals and companies, a testing time in terms of online security. Fighting against increasingly sophisticated and targeted … Continue Reading
AMAZON GO – FRICTIONLESS COMMERCE, MOBILE FRAUD AND BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRICS?
Amazon has described Amazon Go as “a new kind of store with no checkout required”, which essentially means that you won’t have to stand in line to make payments. The Go store works with the new Amazon mobile app that … Continue Reading
AI AND MACHINE LEARNING FIGHTING MOBILE FRAUD
A recent study from LexisNexis indicates that fraud is a growing problem for online retailers, specifically the ones that offer customers a mobile commerce option. “Merchants are challenged on various fronts, including an increased volume of successful fraud attempts, a … Continue Reading
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIORAL AUTHENTICATION IN THE ENTERPRISE
Adaptive authentication involves combining multiple authentication methods to provide the ideal compromise between convenience, security, and costs. This is more contextual in nature and rely on a more implicit form of authentication based on user sessions as opposed to explicit … Continue Reading
COMPANIES MOVE BEYOND PASSWORDS WITH HUMAN BEHAVIOR ALGORITHMS
Great mention of Zighra in the CIO Journal from WSJ on Zighra’s role in behavioral authentication within the enterprise – Read more
GOOGLE SHOWCASES BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRICS AT IO
Behavioral biometrics or behaviometrics is a form of biometric authentication that has shown promise to address the continuous frictionless authentication problem by allowing the device to identify the user without the user doing any explicit authentication actions while providing a … Continue Reading
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIORAL BIOMETRICS A CRITICAL SECURITY LAYER
We are on the cusp of a global shift to change how we identify the individual. Smart devices including mobile phones, wearables and global access to cellular services have pushed biometrics as the new paradigm in user authentication and security … Continue Reading