Identity Authentication news and trends

Plaid and Okta Partner on Secure Connections for Open Finance
Security & Fraud // February 15, 2023

Plaid and Okta have partnered to help financial institutions offer open finance more securely. By combining Plaid’s data network that connects financial accounts to apps and services with Okta’s identity solutions that enable secure access, the collaboration will make it easier for financial institutions to...

Navigating The New World Of Digital Trust
Data // August 27, 2018

It is often a flexible, rarely precise concept, around which centuries of philosophical, political and artistic debates have revolved: trust. In business (specifically digital business that relies on consumer data), trust is something that commerce and payment providers and consumers can use as a means...

IBM Research Launches Crypto Anchor Verifier
Artificial Intelligence // May 23, 2018

IBM Research announced news on Wednesday (May 23) of the introduction of IBM Crypto Anchor Verifier, a new technology that relies on artificial intelligence (AI) and optical imaging to prove the identity and authenticity of objects. In a blog post, IBM said it is rolling...

Averon CEO: Mobilizing The Wireless Identity Network
Authentication // March 26, 2018

Two years ago, journalist Walter Isaacson wrote about the “two original sins of the internet.” One was about journalism in particular, and the idea that content should be free for users and paid for by ads. An error, he noted, for which the media industry...

Interviews & Exclusives
Navigating The New World Of Digital Trust

August 27, 2018
It is often a flexible, rarely precise concept, around which centuries of philosophical, political and artistic debates have revolved: trust. In business (specifically digital business that relies on consumer data), trust is something that commerce and payment providers and consumers can use as a means of trade. There may exist no “trust index,” no way […]

Averon CEO: Mobilizing The Wireless Identity Network

March 26, 2018
Two years ago, journalist Walter Isaacson wrote about the “two original sins of the internet.” One was about journalism in particular, and the idea that content should be free for...

The Great Identity/Authentication Confusion

April 06, 2017
At this year’s PYMNTS Innovation Project, Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s former Supreme Commander, said that one of the biggest points of compromise that cybercrooks exploit is the login. And that...

Quick Reads
Plaid and Okta Partner on Secure Connections for Open Finance

February 15, 2023
Plaid and Okta have partnered to help financial institutions offer open finance more securely. By combining Plaid’s data network that connects financial accounts to apps and services with Okta’s identity solutions that enable secure access, the collaboration will make it easier for financial institutions to exchange data with third parties via OAuth and application programming […]

IBM Research Launches Crypto Anchor Verifier

May 23, 2018
IBM Research announced news on Wednesday (May 23) of the introduction of IBM Crypto Anchor Verifier, a new technology that relies on artificial intelligence (AI) and optical imaging to prove...