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Biometrics providers and tech companies jostle for position in payments and other burgeoning markets
April 25, 2020New opportunities for biometric payments, particularly in smart cards, continue to generate headlines and attract new players, now including Google. Market projections and recent growth statistics show biometrics, particularly on mobile devices, are well positioned to meet new challenges and evolving requirements, from authenticating people working and banking from home…
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Working, shopping and banking from home forces scalable authentication rethink, Nok Nok CEO says
April 22, 2020With people working, shopping and banking from home more than ever before, the need for businesses and individuals to use biometrics or other technologies to have confidence in who is at the other end of each transaction has taken on a greater focus.
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Why Transaction Authentication Is More Critical Now
April 20, 2020As e-commerce explodes during the global COVID-19 pandemic, transaction authentication is more critical for fraud prevention, says Phil Dunkelberger, CEO of Nok Nok Labs, who discusses the latest fraud trends.
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Frost & Sullivan Recommends a More Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity
April 15, 2020The new report arrives a few weeks after a separate Frost & Sullivan report that predicted that expanding IoT networks would be one of the key factors driving the growth of the biometrics market in the next few years. IoT security has become a major priority for many technology providers,…
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Passwordless Authentication for Any Device
April 9, 2020Passwords have been in use as an authentication mechanism forever. But in the digital realm, especially as networks, resources, devices, and applications have expanded out of the scale of measurability, passwords have become increasingly problematic and prone to attack. For over a decade, security pros having been calling for the…
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What IT needs to know about FIDO2 iOS and Android standards
March 19, 2020The FIDO2 standard can help organizations go passwordless, but IT should understand how exactly an application or website offers this possibility through the WebAuthn API. The FIDO Alliance, an association comprised of vendors such as Nok Nok Labs, Microsoft and many others, developed the FIDO standard in 2014. FIDO2, the…
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FIDO Alliance says IoT security is imperative, focuses on device to cloud authentication
March 19, 2020Dr. Rolf Lindemann, Vice President of Products at Nok Nok Labs pointed out that a compromised device could very well turn not only into a national threat, but a global economic peril. Weak authentication in devices that were discoverable online generated the massive DDoS IoT botnet attack in 2016 when…
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Passwords set to become obsolete as companies take security out of our hands
March 19, 2020As stolen passwords are the reason behind most hacks, is now the time to wave goodbye? … It seems we can’t be trusted to protect ourselves online, and several tech companies are taking action to get rid of passwords altogether. After three years of talks The FIDO Alliance launched in…
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IAuth Takes on High Profile at RSA Conference
March 4, 2020Long the principal technology provider behind the FIDO Alliance (FastIDOnline) and its efforts around “passwordless multifactor authentication”, Nok Nok Labs used RSA as a venue to showcase new software and firmware to authenticate through the tens of billions of smart endpoints comprising the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Nok Nok Labs Welcomes Apple to the FIDO Alliance; Reports Record Growth
February 18, 2020Increasing industry support, global regulations, and customer adoption continue to drive deployments for strong passwordless authentication.