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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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IT security investment set to explode, Money 20/20 survey says

BankInovation

Eighty-four percent of 113 companies surveyed at the recent Money 20/20 conference say they expect their enterprise to increase investment in IT security over the next 12 months.

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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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Fraudsters are more likely to pass knowledge-based authentication questions

The Paypers

Pindrop , a provider of voice technology, has released its annual Voice Intelligence & Security Report uncovering how companies might be accidentally inviting fraud, threat mongers from the dark web, and bad actors better prepared to pass authentication.

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GAO: Post-Equifax, Agencies Must Tighten Online ID Proofing

PYMNTS

Postal Service, the Social Security Administration, Veterans Affairs, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for example, ask questions of a new user and match their answers to information held in an individual’s credit file. For instance, not all applicants have cell phones,” the watchdog explained.

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A Bank Automation Summit Preview: Key 2023 Banking Automation Trends

Perficient

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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The Case for Knowledge-Based Authentication

American Banker

But without a brilliant alternative, and done with care, knowledge-based authentication still has value. Asking for static information like a mother's maiden name seems increasingly passé, since shared "secrets" can be stolen or gleaned from the Internet.