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Why It’s Time To Retire Knowledge-Based Authentication

PYMNTS

According to Philipp Pointner, chief product officer at Jumio , a full 90 percent of consumers are comfortable with simply answering knowledge-based questions when it comes to proving their identity. Which, he noted, institutions are — because they are looking for alternatives to knowledge-based authentication.

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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?

PYMNTS

And that fact — shared by Cognito CEO Alain Meier during a recent PYMNTS interview centered around changes in digital ID – serves to show the weakness of knowledge-based authentication. “We Meier said there is serious pressure to move further away from knowledge-based authentication methods and even Social Security numbers.

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A Bank Automation Summit Preview: Key 2023 Banking Automation Trends

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RPA is a form of automation that uses software robots to automate repetitive, mundane tasks, freeing up employees to focus more on strategic, knowledge-based, value-adding tasks. Blockchain technology is being used to create secure, decentralized ledger systems that can store and transfer data in a transparent and secure manner.

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We Can All Learn From Crypto.com’s Hack and Response

Perficient

Firms that implement security solutions that customers understand and appreciate will improve the overall customer experience as well as reduce operational risk. Information security is complex, never ending, and daunting. Purely reactive security deployments can lead to a false sense of security or a complete sense of hopelessness.

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How Perficient and Microsoft Can Help You Return to Work

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Keep your crucial legacy applications secure and reduce costs by migrating them to Microsoft Azure with our Application Migration Accelerator. Most companies accumulate legacy applications over time, leading to issues with compliance, security, increasing support costs, and complex performance management. What It Is. Legacy monoliths.

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Is It Time To Retire Passwords For Digital Authentication?

PYMNTS

Based on the flurry of consumers scrambling to get their $125 settlement from Equifax , data security is an issue with far-reaching consequences. percent said they were “very” or “extremely” satisfied with their current authentication options, indicating a knowledge gap surrounding security best practices. Biometrics.

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How TD Bank Uses Voiceprints To Personalize — And Secure — Call Center Interactions

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That’s why banks, such as TD Bank , are approaching call center security needs with tools like MFA, said Lindsay Sacknoff, head of U.S. Knowledge-based authentication (KBA) methods like passwords and PINs may be fast, but they can also be hard to remember and cause friction, no longer meeting the security needs of the modern call center.

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