Confident ImageShield™

Confident ImageShield provides intuitive and secure image-based authentication for websites and Web applications.

Image-based authentication can be used for logins, password resets, anti-phishing, or as a second form of strong authentication for sensitive transactions.

The human brain recognizes and remembers images more easily than strings of numbers and letters. Based on this fact, Confident Technologies developed an intuitive, image-based authentication product to make online authentication easier on users and more secure. With Confident ImageShield, a user need only remember a few simple categories, yet it creates a secure one-time authentication code for each transaction or online session. No more passwords to remember or expensive hardware tokens to carry.

Image-Based Authentication

How it works:

1. When first registering with a website, the user chooses the categories of images they will use for authentication, such as cats, cars and flowers.

2. Each time the user needs to be authenticated -- such as for a login -- they are presented with a grid of randomly-generated pictures and alphanumeric characters.

3. The user simply identifies the pictures that fit their chosen categories and enters the corresponding characters to form a secure one-time access code.

Strong Security:

The specific pictures and their alphanumeric characters are different each time, forming a one-time access code that is secure against keylogging software. This makes image-based authentication much more secure than static passwords and challenge questions. At the same time, it's easier to use because the user only had to remember a few simple categories. Confident ImageShield provides strong authentication without the cost and complexity of hardware tokens, smart cards or biometric devices.