Authentify Inc.| Observations

Survey Season Continues with Online Fraud News

John Zurawski — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:46:11 -0600

Banks have a tremendous opportunity use mobile devices to enlist their own customers in the fight against fraud, and research indicates the number of consumers ready to do that has doubled over the last four years, according to leading industry expert Jim Van Dyke of Javelin.

Javelin's Van Dyke: Banks should seize opportunity to use mobile phones to involve the customer in fighting fraud

John Zurawski — Thu, 3 May 2012 10:46:11 -0600

'Tis the season for survey's on fraud, it seems. Recently, CyberSource's 13th annual survey on Internet retail fraud hit my desk. I wasn't surprised when reviewing the findings to notice online merchants have something significant in common with banks – namely, their customer is among their best bets for detecting fraud.

2012 Faces of Fraud Survey: Customers Are Banks' Best Tools for Fighting Fraud

John Zurawski — Thu, 19 April 2012 10:46:11 -0600

As promised, I'm back this week to give some deeper analysis of the 2012 Faces of Fraud Survey, a survey partially sponsored by Authentify and conducted by Information Security Media Group.

Are the banks ready for FFIEC Compliance? The survey said… 11%?

John Zurawski — Wed, 12 April 2012 10:46:11 -0600

It's not exactly the type of survey found on Family Feud, but in a survey partially sponsored by Authentify and conducted by BankInfoSecurity, more than 200+ banks responded to questions about fraud trends...

Exploits Never Die; They Find New Targets

John Zurawski — Thu, 5 April 2012 10:46:11 -0600

The Merchant Risk Council held its 10th Annual Payments and Risk Conference the last week of March, and the Authentify team attended once again. Having been to nine of the ten conferences, it was interesting to see old friends, make some new ones, and get a feel for what has changed over the past decade.

Discover 2CHK for Out-of-Band Authentication

Authentify Team — Thu, 5 April 2012 10:46:11 -0600

It has been a busy late winter/early spring, with lots of traveling and events, but we wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about our new "always on" Out-of-Band (OOB) authentication service, 2CHK™.

Out-of-Band Authentication Evolves

Information Security Media Group — Wed, 7 March 2012 10:46:11 -0600

Authentify's Peter Tapling on Mobile and Non-Banking Solutions.

ITA Spotlight: Authentify

ITA Spotlight — Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:46:11 -0600

ITA Spotlight: Authentify With Peter Tapling, President & CEO.

Why not let your customers help you meet the FFIEC supplemental guidance on Authentication in Internet Banking?

John Zurawski — Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:46:11 -0600

It's been about a month since the FFIEC issued their supplement to the "Guidelines for Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment" first published in 2005. The supplement has generated a blizzard of white papers and an avalanche of commentary...

An Observation on Cloud Computing

Andy Rolfe — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:36:11 -0600

Even though I am a "propeller head" myself, I am constantly reminded that technology is not the be-all, end-all solution, particularly in the area of security. We technologists must realize that the security challenges we face often consist of many elements, including the human being at the keyboard we are trying to protect...

Observations from the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit

John Zurawski — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:36:11 -0600

Gartner held their annual Identity and Access Management Summit in San Diego the week of November 14th. Having attended all of the previous 4 "IAM Summits", I was on the lookout for trends and new items in the area of "identity" and multi-factor authentication. From my perspective, if there was a trend, it may be summarized by stating that IAM may have "arrived" at a level of corporate consciousness and is expanding beyond being a subset in the security practitioner space. Several things contribute to my opinion...

Beyond Education, Arming and Activating Your Users in the Battle Against Malware Driven Cybercrime

Robert Soden — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:57:18 -0600

For years, phone-based ‘out-of-band authentication’ (or OOBA) and other manual out-of-band verification processes have been used to protect accounts at peer-to-peer e-payment and auction sites.

Robert Soden reports
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