Strong Customer Authentication Solutions

  Strong customer authentication is one of the technologies that you should embrace in your business if you want to improve the security of your data and business systems. It confirms user identity reliably and safely, never solely based on shared secrets/symmetric keys like passwords, recovery questions and codes. Strong customer authentication assumes that credential phishing and impersonation attacks are inevitable and robustly repels them. Even though multi-factor authentication remains among the best ways to establish who trusted users are, actual strong authentication goes beyond either two-factor authentication or multifactor authentication. When you are implementing multifactor authentication, at a minimum, you follow the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Assurance Level-2 for admin functions. What this means is that you use two factors: something you know, like a code or password, and something you have, like a push notification or a one-time passcode...

  FIDO2 keys are very important because they help companies achieve a passwordless environment much faster due to their interoperability and security design. They work right out of the box and use a separate cryptography chip to qualify for the highest authenticator assurance level, thereby making it possible to meet the most rigorous compliance requirements. You need to understand the practical power behind the FIDO2 key technology to be able to know how you can benefit from it in your business. One of the benefits of this technology is that mobile devices work great with FIDO2 security keys. Before FIDO2, using a hardware security key on a mobile device required extra software and an extra reader. But the major mobile device manufacturers have invested heavily in making FIDO2 a natural part of their authentication system. Because of this, you can now use a FIDO2 security key on a mobile device right out of the box. This compatibility can help you immediately deploy strong multi-...

  FIDO’s certification programs are very important when it comes to ensuring an interoperable ecosystem of products and services that organizations can leverage to deploy FIDO Authentication solutions worldwide. The FIDO Alliance manages functional certification programs for its core specifications to validate product conformance as well as interoperability, and in addition it has introduced programs for delineating security capabilities of FIDO Certified Authenticators and to test and validate the efficacy of biometric components. FIDO certification brings a lot of benefits to vendors, deploying organizations as well as end users alike.   For vendors, earning the FIDO(R) Certified mark validates to customers the integrity of their product, meaning that the product adheres to the FIDO Specifications and interoperates within the marketplace – for example, a FIDO2 Certified Server can accept any FIDO2 Certified authenticator, regardless of its manufacturer. This certificati...