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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent data breaches and incidents show that authentication continues to be a big problem for enterprises. Attackers increasingly focus on intercepting credentials to log in to user accounts or ...

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 ...