28 Jul

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Nok Nok and ForgeRock Extend Relationship

July 28, 2020 Nok Nok News 0 comments

Nok Nok’s expanded, tight integration with ForgeRock provides customers with powerful FIDO-based capabilities across all channels, mobile, web, and smart devices

Nok Nok and ForgeRock have extended their relationship to provide passwordless authentication to access management platform. Nok Nok’s expanded, tight integration with ForgeRock provides customers with powerful FIDO-based capabilities across all channels, mobile, web, and smart devices. Nok Nok announced the expanded integration of the Nok Nok™ S3 Authentication Suite with the ForgeRock™ Identity Platform. The combination of Nok Nok and ForgeRock brings leading, scalable FIDO-based passwordless authentication to the ForgeRock™ Identity Platform. Customers can now access and authenticate seamlessly without sacrificing security.

Causes of breaches are primarily attributed to weak access or authentication practices. A review of some of the biggest data breaches in the 21st century shows how weak access can expose the records of millions of consumers. Similarly, global regulations such as GDPR and PSD2 are driving the demand for frictionless, secure and easy-to-use authentication solutions. Having secure authentication solutions will help organizations not only comply with regulations but also deliver their services in new and innovative ways. As more end-users rely on their mobile devices and the cloud to access vital home, work and banking applications, username-password authentication methodologies become cumbersome because they are not secure, scalable or convenient.

Nok Nok has been a member of the ForgeRock Trust Network since 2018. Since then, Nok Nok has expanded its technology footprint within the ForgeRock Identity Platform to offer a simplified integration to both companies’ mutual customers to achieve passwordless authentication. With the combination of ForgeRock access management solutions and Nok Nok passwordless authentication, organizations don’t have to sacrifice security while providing ease-of-use solutions to consumers. The Nok Nok S3 Suite offers customers the most mature, proven, scalable passwordless authentication solution, that works across all platforms, and is the most widely deployed FIDO-based solution.

“Lost, weak, often forgotten passwords can lead to cart abandonment, lost revenue and eventually lost customers,” commented Ben Goodman, Vice President, Global Strategy and Innovation at ForgeRock. “Integration with standards-based technology like Nok Nok allows our customers to authenticate their new users quickly and securely, which minimizes abandonment and provides a seamless experience from the very beginning.”

“Integration with ForgeRock provides a logical extension for organizations looking to leverage standards-based authentication in their access management solutions,” said Dr. Rolf Lindemann, Vice President, Products, Nok Nok Labs. “Organizations looking to increase security due to regulatory or other market drivers now have a strong combination with Nok Nok’s standards-based authentication and the ForgeRock Access Management solution.”

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About ForgeRock
ForgeRock^®, the leader in digital identity, delivers modern and comprehensive Identity and Access Management solutions for consumers, employees and things to simply and safely access the connected world. Using ForgeRock, more than a thousand global customer organizations orchestrate, manage, and secure the complete lifecycle of identities from dynamic access controls, governance, APIs, and storing authoritative data – consumable in any cloud or hybrid environment. The company is privately held, and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices around the world. For more information and free downloads, visit www.forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on social media: Facebook ForgeRock |Twitter @ForgeRock | LinkedIn ForgeRock |

About Nok Nok Labs (Nok Nok)
Nok Nok is the trusted leader in passwordless consumer authentication to the world’s largest organizations. Delivering the most innovative authentication solutions in the market today, Nok Nok empowers global organizations to improve the user experience to access digital services, while meeting the most advanced privacy and regulatory requirements. The Nok Nok™ S3 Authentication Suite integrates into existing security environments to deliver a proven, cost-effective, future-proof and standards-based passwordless consumer authentication solution. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, the company has delivered unique inventions and innovations that are protected by a robust global patent portfolio. As a founder of the FIDO Alliance and an inventor of FIDO specifications, Nok Nok is the expert in deploying standards-based authentication, and its industry leading customers and partners include BBVA, DDS, Inc., Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, Intuit, Lenovo, MTRIX GmbH, NTT DATA, NTT DOCOMO, OneSpan, SoftBank, and T-Mobile. For more information, visit www.noknok.com.

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21 Jul

5 Min read

Going Beyond the Standard

July 21, 2020 Nok Nok News 0 comments

It is not a surprise to say that passwords are broken. They were not designed to secure today’s connected economy. As an inventor of FIDO standards, we knew that the key to replacing passwords was a privacy-by-design specification that championed interoperability and decentralized the security topography.

The Nok Nok™ S3 Suite goes beyond the standards. It is the most widely deployed FIDO-certified solution on the planet. It has powered billions of consumer authentication events for banks like BBVA and Standard Bank, for telcos like T-Mobile and NTT DOCOMO, and for a variety of other industries like physical security, government and insurance. We have deployed the Nok Nok solution, at scale, more times than any other purveyor of FIDO certified servers. Our level of experience delivers a better product, a better team, a swifter and more stable integration, and a collection of benefits we are excited to share in this new release of the Nok Nok S3 Suite.

Adaptive Policies
Existing authentication systems are robust – but most have been deployed using username and passwords as their foundational layer. We know that passwords do not make a firm foundation. In order to shore up that weakness, new systems have been bolted on to make the passwords more complex, to ask personal questions, to generate and distribute one-time-passcodes or harvest device details in order to lower the probability of fraud (just a little!). Risk-engines were devised to collect and analyze these data points. Regulations have been created mandating the use of these additional methods. As we move into a passwordless future, some of these requirements persist and will still be needed.

With the Nok Nok S3 Suite you can power large scale passwordless deployments – deployments which can be paired with existing risk engines, behavioral biometrics, or other systems. With our new release, we simplify the integration and add an engine capable of dynamically adapting to the context of an authentication event. This allows our customers to select appropriate risk factors and implement them without writing a single line of code. By including authentication context, we help enable compliance with the requirements of PSD2 SCA, and other privacy and security regulations. The new, simplified integration accelerates time to deployment and provides the tools necessary to address the most pressing financial industry requirements.

Expanded Device Support
Since the beginning, FIDO standards have been about interoperability. We worked tirelessly in the early days to make sure the standard integrated with handset manufacturers like Fujitsu and Samsung, secure silicon providers such as Qualcomm, and authentication providers for facial and fingerprint recognition. Nok Nok was the first to bring FIDO authentication support for the Apple Watch and today we are happy to let you know we now also support WearOS (formally Android Wear). But our work is not done. As new devices and solutions come to market, we are eager to expand our support and bring more choices to the consumer. Through our API and SDKs, the same user experience and security can be provided, regardless of channel or device.

Nok Nok™ Quick Authentication
Bandwidth is crowded, especially now that more of us are online with multiple devices. Phones are connected to earphones, watches, computers and more. Each wireless interaction carries a network cost and introduces delay and latency to the customer experience. Some networks are not as robust as others and this inconsistency of experience can create frustration and friction for users.

Following our history of designing “beyond the standard”, today we are introducing Quick Authentication with this latest release. Nok Nok™ Quick Authentication performs secure FIDO authentication in a single network round trip. Organizations can now significantly reduce their network traffic. End-users get both speed and security with this update.

Going Beyond
While FIDO standards are a leap forward towards a passwordless world, the Nok Nok S3 Suite takes you there and beyond. Our latest technology is built to address the authentication needs of companies wrestling with regulatory complexity, without adding friction to the user experience. Customers expect privacy, and regulations – such as CCPA and GDPR – have strict rules and significant penalties for privacy violations. The Nok Nok S3 Suite eliminates the need to centrally store biometric customer data for authentication and – as mentioned – it follows a privacy-by-design approach. With strong, multi-factor authentication, the ability to comply with FFIEC, PSD2 SCA, HIPAA and other regulations is enabled. In addition, support for EMVCo 3DS2’s requirement for transaction confirmation of high value transactions is already included.

We view authentication as the front door to the connected economy. That door should be frictionless, yet secure. It should provide the security an organization and regulatory body requires while not turning away the end-user. We have deployed our solution to customers with tens of millions of users and we know how to build and integrate a scalable solution.

Simple. Secure. Scalable – was what we committed to 8 years ago and what we continue to deliver today.

For more information on the Nok Nok S3 Suite, please download the product brief here, or reach out to our team who will be happy to answer any questions.

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