Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

The most common interaction with an authentication mechanism is when we type in our password to log on to a computer or website. We type in the password once, it is authenticated by the OS, then our ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Continuous authentication represents a shift in security measures, offering a dynamic approach to verifying user identity throughout ...

User account authentication seems stuck with 18th-century pin-tumbler locks in an era of heat-sensitive, motion-detecting vaults with man traps and biometric sensors. As I recently discussed, ...

Every year, as I travel around the security conference circuit, the hallway conversations always turn to the interesting things attendees have seen lately. To be honest, I can’t remember the last time ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not promote a product or service and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. Usernames and passwords act as a gateway. Insert ...

The first time I heard the phase “continuous user authentication” was just two weeks ago, from a rousing keynote address Jim Routh, CSO for Aetna, gave in San Diego for CISO Connect, an ...

When you think about enterprise security, the image of the RSA dongle or hardware token that generates random numbers and looks like a flash drive with a small led screen may come to mind (something ...

State and local government employees may use a lot of applications in their IT environments to support their work. Instead of having each employee sign on to one application at a time and then sign ...

Other biometric systems in use today are not capable of continuous authentication. While they may identify and differentiate between individuals, this represents only a “snap-shot” of a person's ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...