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With financial services providers anticipating the implementation of PSD2 regulations in Europe next year, The Paypers invited us to sit down with Netcetera and the Aite Group for a webinar last fall.  The full discussion was very rewarding and both the opportunities and challenges of compliance were discussed in detail. If you are interested, you can see...
In all of my years working in this industry, 2020 has been one of the most challenging ones. COVID-19 derailed business-as-usual for virtually every organization across every industry, forcing them to set aside their existing strategies and quickly pivot to deliver remote connectivity at a massive scale to accommodate their workforces, customers, and more. On...
In 1876, the first telephone call was made. The technological principles of the telegram – allowing for instantaneous communication over long distances – were deployed at a massive scale to allow for advanced, personal communication to be deployed in every home. The leap from dots-and-dashes to voice-and-sound took 32 years (Samuel Morse sent his first...
Passwordless authentication has finally come of age. The final piece of the puzzle is what is happening at Apple and their support of the various FIDO2 standards, including adding the Web Authn protocols to Safari running on iOS v14 devices. These protocols are useful, because web application servers can integrate with strong authenticators already built into devices, such as Apple...
We have an opportunity. This year has radically accelerated a fundamental shift that has been going on for quite some time. A core component of our security architecture has been eliminated. The “secure perimeter” – an antiquated concept from the days when computers took up an entire room – has all but vanished. “Security”, in those...
This month is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Let me be blunt. If you don’t think you are responsible for cybersecurity – you are wrong. Think about the footsteps you leave in the digital sand, your digital persona, information that you would consider private, valuable and vital. Now, think about how those bits and bytes of...
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’s been an exciting week as Apple has once again shown its commitment to stronger, standards-based authentication by adding support for Web Authentication Platform Authenticators to iOS, iPadOS, macOS and Safari. With browsers like Safari allowing their users to leverage Face ID or Touch ID based platform authenticators to log in to websites, the final...
As we wrap up another year (and another decade), my thoughts are turning to 2020 and what we need to keep an eye out for next year as we put our plans together. 2019 has been one to remember from big data leaks like last week’sTrueDialogue blunder to groundbreaking new technology like the first-ever standards-based authentication for...
Did you know the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) directive (Directive2015/2366/EU) starts out with 113 introductory recitals?  You can check them out for yourself. It includes such gems as: #29: “‘authentication’ means a procedure which allows the payment service provider to verify the identity of a payment service user or the validity of the use of a...
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