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Solving Online Credit Fraud Using Device Identification and Reputation

The Internet has become a strategic customer acquisition and services distribution channel for financial services companies. Consumers are able to apply and obtain credit online, transfer funds, trade commodities and pay bills by simply clicking a few buttons from anywhere at any time. Unfortunately, in the online...

Single Sign-On (SSO) Solutions

Single Sign-On solutions (SSO) improve application access security without incurring the cost of modifying each individual application. With Single Sign-On, you can centrally manage access privileges, audit this access and add comprehensive password policies to existing applications. Read this whitepaper and learn...

Banks Guard Against Data Breaches

Banks face the constant risk of unauthorized exposure of sensitive financial business data and customer information. The recent security breaches disclosed by retailers and other entities demonstrate the severity of this problem. Banks expose themselves to data breaches in many ways, including exposure via their...

One-time Passwords: Your Key to Combating Advanced Security Threats

Protecting Against Advanced Security Threats Phishing. Man-in-the-Middle. Trojans. As security threats continue to emerge, so too does the quest for an effective and manageable solution: One that allows consumers to conduct business via the online channel without fear of fraud; and one that allows institutions the...

Protecting Customers Beyond Compliance Deadlines

Learn how you can protect your entire online user base without compromising the bottom line. So your financial institution has met the compliance guidance to provide stronger authentication for customer data and transactions. Now what? That is only the tip of the iceberg in deploying a long-term security...

VeriSign Identity Protection for FFIEC Compliance

Learn how to protect your consumers' digital identities. Comply with FFIEC guidelines. Manage your reputational risk. Solidify your approach to consumer authentication. Learn more about VeriSign(r) Identity Protection Services. Get the white paper from VeriSign now!

Embedded Security: Trusted Platform Module Technology Comes of Age

With hundreds of millions of electronic transactions taking place daily, businesses and organizations have a strong incentive to protect the integrity of the data exchanged in this manner, and to positively ensure the identities of those involved in the transactions. This has led to an industry-wide quest for better,...

The Value of Authentication

One of the biggest problems facing your Internet business today is the thorny issue of trust and security. The vast majority of consumers are concerned about the safety of their credit card and personal details. People simply don't trust the Web, fearing that their transactions might not be safe. Not only are...

The Starter PKI Program

thawte's Starter Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Program enables companies that require multiple security certificates to better manage their certificate needs without the red tape usually associated with this process. This program will benefit organizations by helping to improve IT and business processes through...

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...