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Why Mobile Phones Are The Better Consumer Authentication Mousetrap

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So if it works so much better, Webster wondered, what’s holding it back from becoming a new authentication standard? Building Ubiquitous Access. SMS may not work terrifically well as an authentication tool, but it does have one massive advantage and selling point: It is ubiquitous.

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Is No-Factor Authentication Digital Security’s Future?

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For a great example of an attempt at security that does much more to annoy legitimate consumers than to actually fend off fraudsters, look no further than CAPTCHA. The Zero-Authentication Future.

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How To Build A Global Digital Identity Network

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By way of illustration, Ufford said there have traditionally been scores of siloed datasets across the issuing banks — and yet there is a framework the card networks provide through their rails and infrastructure, ubiquitous and trusted.