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PSD2 is on a 5+ year odyssey of bringing modern consumer authentication strategies and protections to European consumers. Delayed twice already, it’s unlikely to be delayed further.  Fortunately, Nok Nok Labs can deliver a SCA compliance process today that will offer smooth sailing regardless of the siren songs.

The Guardian and Forbes reported that researchers traced a massive leakage of 28 Million biometric and personal records to a company whose products are used worldwide for physical access control to a UK based company.

The payment services directive 2 (PSD2) effective date (Sept 14th, 2019) is approaching quickly. While open banking APIs are a big topic in PSD2, I want to focus on the new rules regarding Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) that are also part of this new PSD2.

What if you could authenticate with phishing protection, support dedicated security hardware or security hardware integrated in your users’ everyday devices, allow users to choose PINs, or the biometric modality of their choice – wouldn’t that be great?

Krebs on Security broke a story on 16th of April 2019 about the IT outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. The blog reported that Wipro had suffered a breach of its internal systems and that its infrastructure was being used to mount attacks onto Wipro’s customers.

What an amazing couple of weeks! From Barcelona all the way to San Francisco, we’re honored and humbled to have been tied to three major awards recognizing the imprint we’ve made in modernizing the authentication landscape.

It’s the “trends and predictions” time of year — all kinds of lists for all kinds of industries. Lest we neglect the identity and access management sector, I’ve got my own list of five predictions.

In a previous post, we talked about how Android and iOS have made enormous progress in mobile platform security. This post focusses on Android Protected Confirmation and how Nok Nok Labs leverages this security feature to help protect the industry as a whole.

Passwords have very few fans and rightfully so. The end-user impact on usability is something we can all understand. Less widely understood is that passwords expose organizations and our infrastructure to remote, scalable attacks. Learn how modern two-factor authentication (2FA) addresses these issues, where traditional approaches have fallen short.

It is what you do with the standard that matters.