• How your authentication scheme could hurt your business

  By Thor Olavsrud | 17 April, 2013 19:30

  Consumers often fail to perform transactions online due to authentication failure. But while they struggle, they also distrust websites with weak authentication procedures.

• Startup Nok Nok Labs pitches strong new authentication process

  By Ellen Messmer | 12 February, 2013 14:13

  Nok Nok Labs officially opened its doors today to introduce client/server-based technology proposed as an innovative foundation for flexible, strong multi-factor security that can be used in e-commerce, Web services or the enterprise.

• New FIDO Alliance pushing 'fast-identity' strong authentication protocol

  By Ellen Messmer | 12 February, 2013 14:13

  A new industry group called the Fast IDentity Online Alliance, or FIDO Alliance for short, makes its debut Tuesday to promote adoption in e-commerce and websites an innovative authentication protocol that's intended to bring a higher level of security for online users.

• PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication

  By Ellen Messmer | 26 November, 2012 19:00

  When Phil Dunkelberger co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002 with Jon Callas, it was to acquire the codebase for the famous encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" which had been sold to Networks Associates in 1997. That proved a good move for public-key encryption, and now Dunkelberger says his next project -- the formation of a company called Nok Nok Labs -- involves a revolutionary way to support authentication in corporate networks and the cloud.

• How to Secure Big Data in Hadoop

  By Thor Olavsrud | 08 November, 2012 23:08

  The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project from the beginning. Here are some steps you can take to avoid big data pitfalls.

• What Are the Most Overrated Security Technologies?

  By Bill Brenner | 25 March, 2010 06:53

  The security community has grown to depend on some basic technologies in the fight against cyber thieves, such as antivirus software and firewalls. But are practitioners clinging to tools that outlived their usefulness long ago? Were those tools ever really useful to begin with?

• Biometrics: What, Where and Why

  By Mary Brandel | 25 March, 2010 06:41

  Biometrics encompasses a variety of methods for ensuring identity based on physical or behavioral traits. Conventional identifying traits include fingerprints, face topology, iris structure, hand geometry, vein structure, voice, signature and keystroke recognition. Emerging technologies analyze characteristics such as gait, odor, and ear shape. Rather than being used in isolation, biometrics systems are increasingly becoming multimodal, an approach that serves both to increase security and overcome failure-to-enroll problems.

• Using Biometric Access Systems: Dos and Don'ts

  By Mary Brandel | 18 March, 2010 06:41

  Considering a biometric access system? Experts offer practical advice in these dos and don'ts.

• Password Seeks Partner For Long-Term, Secure Relationship

  By Bill Nagel | 05 May, 2009 09:25

  Passwords have been standing guard over our computer user accounts seemingly forever; for a long while, and for most purposes, they could go it alone.

Whitepapers about authentication

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  Effective and Painless Multi-Factor Authentication

  There is a new, multifactor authentication approach that not only strengthens identity authentication but does so in a way that does not introduce the burdensome cost, user inconvenience, and administrative complexity that have limited the adoption of multi-factor authentication by small and mid-sized businesses.