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Using Pictures Rather Than Distorted Text, Confident CAPTCHA™ Increases Website Security, Improves Usability and Delivers Engaging Advertising Platform
Oct 02, 2012
SAN DIEGO, CA, October 2, 2012– Confident Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of image-based authentication and verification solutions today unveiled a new version of its popular image-based CAPTCHA technology, called Confident CAPTCHA™. The new version features the ability for website... Read More
Company Awarded Patent for Strong Authentication Method Using a Dynamic Arrangement of Graphical Images.
Sep 13, 2012
September 13, 2012
Confident Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of image-based authentication and verification solutions today announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent number 8,117,458 for “Methods and Systems for Graphical Image Authentication.” The... Read More
Debate: In light of recent breaches, passwords remain a useful method for authentication.
Sep 04, 2012
September 4, 2012
SC Magazine recently printed a debate on whether passwords remain a useful method for authentication -- especially in light of recent major password leaks like those at Sony and LinkedIn. In the debate Confident Technologies CEO, Curtis Staker argues that static, text passwords... Read More
Jun 27, 2012
June 27, 2012
Programmable Web, an online community for web developers directory of APIs, recently wrote about Confident Technologies' image-based authentication APIs. In the article Confident Technologies: Picture Perfect Security, Programmable Web describes how image-based authentication works... Read More
An Osterman Research Executive Brief
Jun 21, 2012
Osterman Research recently published an executive brief titled "A Better Method of Authentication" that discusses the security challenges organizations face due to the rapid growth of "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD).
Traditional authentication methodologies relying on alphanumeric passwords have... Read More
Jun 13, 2012
Confident Technologies was recently named "Best Web Tool" for website authentication by Web Hosting Search, an independent web hosting information guide.
Web Hosting Search chose our image-based, user authentication technology for being a unique web tool that adds value to websites by providing... Read More
Websites Should Use One-Time Passwords for User Authentication
Jun 06, 2012
June 6, 2012
Multiple news organizations have reported that approximately 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords have been stolen and posted online. Some sources say that the dating website eHarmony may also have had passwords stolen and posted online, bringing the total password breach up to 8 million... Read More
May 03, 2012
Employees in all industries are increasingly bringing their personal smartphones and tablets into the workplace and using them to access corporate networks, company email, business applications and other highly sensitive information. The popularity of “bring-your-own-device” (BYOD) presents a... Read More
Apr 16, 2012
April 16, 2012
NFC News, which covers the near field communications (NFC) marketplace, recently reported on the challenges with mobile devices, identity and security. In the article "The Mobile ID Experiment" editor Zack Martin explains that the NFC industry finds itself in the midst of a... Read More
Enabling BYOD While Minimizing Security and Privacy Risks
Mar 27, 2012
The growing popularity of "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) by healthcare professionals, combined with the digitization of electronic medical records (EMRs) brings increased security and privacy risks.
By the end of 2012, nearly half of all physicians are expected to be using their personal... Read More
