Tag: Token

CJIS Mandate Update: Law Enforcement Organizations Get More Time to…

Law enforcement organizations looking for the best solution to move to advanced authentication and meet the CJIS mandate have received some good news: they now have until 2014. CJIS is the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS). It is the primary central repository for criminal justice information and the focal point […]

Risk-appropriate authentication vs machine fingerprinting

A recent Wall Street Journal article on the insecurity of passwords confirmed what many of us have believed for some time – the days of password-only authentication are numbered. As well as highlighting the passwords that no one of sane mind should consider using (‘123456’ or ‘password’, anyone?) it also considers some of the various […]

Are passwords dead yet?

Despite frequent reports of email hacks and enterprise data breaches, the username and password method for authentication is still one of the primary security measures used today. How do we create secure online identities?

Tis the Season for… Online Fraud?

If you read the news as much as I do, you probably have seen a lot of advice about how to avoid having your financial details stolen this holiday season.  It’s true that conducting banking transactions or shopping online does make you vulnerable to cybercriminals lurking in the background.  But there are a lot of […]

Securing the Cloud with Protiva Strong Authentication from Gemalto

Pedro Martinez explains the challenges modern companies face in securing their data, particularly given the proliferation of the cloud. Pedro shows how on-site or hosted servers, which manage the authentication of tokens, help process a unique password for the user, authenticated by back-end systems. Smart, secure and easy solutions help customers and mean companies can […]