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Using passwords to access our online lives is a commonplace experience and so are the attendant frustrations. Cybersecurity demands evermore complicated formulas: passwords might necessarily be of a minimum length, use a capital, number or special character. There is the regular insistence that a password be updated and not just…

New 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…

With 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.

As 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.

The 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,…

Passwords 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…

The 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…

Dr. 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…

As 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…

Long 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).