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Mobile Biometric User Authentication as a Service

Solving your Password Problems with Multi-Modal Biometrics

Jim Miller

Transform your business and customer authentication experience with end-to-end, enterprise-ready biometrics.

This joint publication with Gartner will show you how Mobile Biometric User Authentication will transform your business by safeguarding customer security, protecting brand equity, and adding to your bottom line.

ImageWare Systems CEO Jim Miller says it best: "The first organizations to provide innovative solutions to their customers gain and retain the majority of market share. Biometric authentication secures customer transactions and identities, while protecting organizations from data breaches, lowering security costs, and improving productivity. It's the greatest disruptive technology on the scene today."

In 2015, more than half a billion new mobile devices came online; totaling almost 8 billion globally. Mobile devices can be stolen and passwords hacked. It's no wonder identity theft is skyrocketing. Protect your employees, customers, and vital intellectual capital with the only multi-modal biometric user authentication solution with identity proofing. Read more

The user authentication market spans an increasingly wide variety of technologies and vendors. Mobile and cloud are key to both needs and solutions that IAM leaders should consider. Vendors in adjacent markets begin to displace incumbent solutions in some cloud-first organizations.

Key Findings

  • User experience (UX) is an important selection criterion, ahead of both trust and total cost of ownership (TCO) in a majority of organizations.
  • Phone-as-a-token methods dominate in multiple use cases, including high-risk privileged access. Out-of-band push modes make inroads and will dominate in the short to midterm.
  • Interest in contextual/analytic and adaptive approaches grows beyond online fraud detection in banking. However, few regulations and auditors recognize the efficacy of such approaches.
  • Mobile biometric authentication methods are nascent, with early adoption in mobile banking apps. Native fingerprint modes dominate, but modes such as face and voice get some traction.
  • Cloud-based services grow faster than the overall growth for this market for operational reasons, as well as macroeconomic trends that constrain staffing and support for on-premises solutions.
  • Authentication is a horizontal capability across adjacent markets, especially identity and access management (IAM) as a service (IDaaS) offerings that can fully address cloud and legacy remote access.

Recommendations

  • Identity and access management (IAM) and security leaders should seek user authentication methods that best provide the necessary balance among trust (authentication strength and accountability), total cost of ownership (TCO) and user experience in each use case.
  • While common methods, especially phone-as-a-token methods, are increasingly commoditized and authentication is an increasingly horizontal capability, IAM and security leaders should look for vendor differentiation in breadth of capability and in experience and expertise in different vertical markets, such as retail banking and healthcare.

ImageWare Content

SIMPLIFY YOUR LOGIN EXPERIENCE – THE VALUE PROPOSITION

Complexity of password policy and various login requirements challenges users' daily lives. Improving login experience without compromising IT security is a hard problem that every company needs to solve. Multi-factor authentication combined with multi-modal biometrics simplifies your login and authentication experience while enhancing security. Read more

HOW DOES IT WORK? – AN END-USER WORKFLOW

ImageWare's GoVerifyID biometrically authenticates end-users' identities using their choice of face, voice or fingerprint recognition. It allows customers to replace (or augment) their passwords or two-factor authentication (2FA) with biometrics. Rather than typing a password, end-users can take selfies, speak phrases, and/or swipe their fingerprints to gain access. Read more

ENSURE THE RIGHT PERSON GETS ACCESS – IDENTITY PROOFING

The first step in user authentication, even before granting accounts or credentials, is making sure of the user's real-world identity. ImageWare integrates with TransUnion's IDManager to provide identity-proofing services based on life history and transaction information aggregated from public and proprietary data sources. We're the only SaaS identity solution that has identity proofing as part of biometric authentication. Read more

AN END-TO-END SOLUTION

ImageWare's GoVerifyID SaaS solution provides an enterprise-ready service offering that can be easily integrated into your existing security solutions, with no disruptions to your business process. Our end-to-end solution covers the full range of a biometric authentication mobile/cloud SaaS offering: identity proofing, cloud provisioning, on-device enrollment, real-time authentication, seamless integration into existing security workflow, and a self-service turnkey tool. Read more

TURNKEY BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION AS A SERVICE

With IWS' pay-as-you-go, scale-as-you-need SaaS offering, customers enjoy quick deployment and faster ROI with no upfront infrastructure setup or on-going IT maintenance costs. Customers can also choose the biometric modality to deploy (face, voice, fingerprint) and the algorithm partner. Learn more

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