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Your Customers and Their Secrets

This paper discusses and analyzes the internet-based, password reset functionality provided by many organizations for their customers. The average application user is being forced to remember more and more complex passwords to accomplish their daily routines. The very nature of complex passwords, sometimes results in...

Document Security in Web Applications

Organizations publish information online including confidential data. Data is rendered in varied formats; it can vary from simple HTML pages to documents in Adobe's PDF or Microsoft's Word/Excel formats. Confidential data is restricted to a set of users who have to login and be authenticated on the website. A common...

The Security and Administrative Benefits of using X.509 PKI based Strong Authentication

Strong authentication based on X.509 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is available in a number of protocols and provides both security and administrative benefits and drawbacks. This paper looks at the security and administrative benefits (and drawbacks) of using strong authentication. This paper looks at generic...

Omni-Channel Authentication: A Unified Approach to a Multi-Authenticator World

Authentication innovation is still in its infancy, and most companies are still combining more traditional passwords and PINs with cutting edge biometrics or contextual decisioning methods. The combination brings new capabilities to multi-factor authentication, but doesn't necessarily produce the best possible...