Prevent Brute-Force Attacks and Dictionary Attacks

Confident KillSwitch™ is an optional technology feature that can be used with any of Confident Technologies’ image-based authentication solutions. It can positively identify and proactively defend against brute force attacks and credential harvesting on account logins, password reset processes, transaction verifications and other authentication requests, collecting actionable data the business can use to halt attempts to compromise accounts in real-time.   

With Confident KillSwitch, the user establishes one or more “no pass” categories in addition to their regular authentication categories. If a hacker or computer bot attempts to fraudulently authenticate using brute-force or random guessing and selects one of the images fitting one of the user's "no pass" categories, Confident KillSwitch can automatically alert the business or account owner that unauthorized access is being attempted. It can immediately lock all access to the online account, or can present increasingly difficult ImageShield challenges while gathering important information including the IP address, geographic location and behavioral biometrics of the would-be attacker, and whether it’s an attempt to compromise a single account or part of a broader attack on the organization or even across multiple organizations. 

The data collected by Confident KillSwitch can also be fed into the company’s risk engine, fraud-detection platforms, or other adaptive security systems to further enhance the decisions made by those systems and help the organization proactively defend against the attacks. 

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