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Feb 29, 2012
March 1, 2012
Confident Technologies CEO, Curtis Staker, recently wrote an opinion piece for SC Magazine. "The Password is Dead" describes how businesses and websites' reliance on static, text passwords is not strong security. One main reason for this is the fact that people tend to use... Read More
Image-Based Authentication to be Integrated with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
Feb 28, 2012
We're pleased to announce that Confident Technologies has been accepted into the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance (SIA). The goal of the Security Innovation Alliance is to accelerate the development of interoperable security technologies. McAfee SIA enables customers to leverage their... Read More
Feb 20, 2012
February 2012
Forbes reports ecommerce spending figures of $161.5 billion in the US in 2011, having risen 13% from the previous year. With ecommerce figures still growing, both merchants and consumers need to understand the security options available for online payments and online banking... Read More
Feb 06, 2012
February 6, 2012
Network World published a slideshow showing hot new types of multifactor authentication technologies, including Confident Multifactor Authentication™ from Confident Technologies.
Click here to view the slideshow on the Network World website.
Smartphones emerge as key to out-of-band authentication methods for online finance
Feb 06, 2012
February 6, 2012
Network World reports on new multifactor authentication methods for protecting online transactions, including image-based authentication from Confident Technologies.
The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to... Read More
Time for a New Authentication Scheme
Jan 24, 2012
Gawker, Sony, Zappos; the massive fallout from these and other data breaches involving weak password authentication schemes show that the current password system is dead. Let's face it; people can't remember the complex passwords needed for secure logins - not when they have an average of 25 online... Read More
Image-Based, Multifactor Authentication
Jan 06, 2012
On June 28, 2011, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a supplement to the Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment guidance first issued in 2005. A link to the new supplement is provided here. The updated guidance outlines the minimum authentication... Read More
Infographic Indicates an Alarming Disregard for Security on Mobile Devices.
Dec 19, 2011
December 19, 2011
Tab Times reports on tablet news, trend and solutions. The website recently reported on the results of Confident Technologies' mobile security survey results. The results of our mobile security survey showed that a shocking number of smartphone and tablet owners do not lock... Read More
In Order To Grow, Mobile Retailers Need Better Mobile Authentication Technology
Dec 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
The CIO Network on Forbes.com features an article from Confident Technologies CEO, Curtis Staker. In the article, Staker describes how clunky authentication schemes are hindering mobile commerce.
If you've ever tried logging into a mobile application or mobile website, you... Read More
Dec 14, 2011
December 14, 2011
Help Net Security covers the Top 5 Authentication Predictions for 2012 from Confident Technologies. Among the predictions are:
BYOMD (bring your own mobile device) will spell big trouble for businesses in terms of data loss in 2012.
There will be a large data breach (... Read More
