Cognito CEO Alain Meier and his colleagues at the identify verification service have a peculiar way of freaking out payment and commerce operators. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
Verifying a user’s digital ID is essential for platforms large and small. Yet, UK startup Passbase COO Dave McGibbon tells Karen Webster that SMBs often lack awareness of and access to the tech that can help them manage that risk - and why outsourcing IDV...
Consumers who are accessing multiple connected devices want to enjoy seamless authentication experiences across them — they want their data and online activities synchronized regardless of whether they’re logging on from laptops, tablets or smartphones. The following Deep Dive focuses on how digital personas could...
Here’s another place where passwords need to take a hike: healthcare. Bruce Forman, chief information security officer for UMass Memorial Health Care, tells PYMNTS that healthcare needs to take a lesson from financial services, embrace biometrics and two-factor authentication, and give complex passwords the heave-ho.
It might not have been inevitable, perhaps, but it was certainly expected: a regulatory backlash concerning the booming trade (both online and in brick-and-mortar stores) of eCigarettes, with their different flavors attractive to younger consumers — including underaged ones. However, that backlash also promises to drive...
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The password doesn’t get a lot of love these days, and not for entirely unfair reasons. Consumers in 2019 are well past the point where they have a few digital relationships such that they only have to remember a password or two — they have...
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National identification systems are moving behind physical documents. Several global markets are integrating biometric data — including facial recognition and fingerprints — into various national ID systems as a means of improving border security, authenticating licensed drivers and more. The following Deep Dive highlights several...
