SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 24, 2015) - Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform company, today announced the acquisition of Authy, a leading provider of authentication as-a-service ...

Businesses are continuing to rely on passwords, and those that are implementing additional authentication factors are choosing outdated options like static questions and SMS codes that leave them ...

Identity theft and online fraud are forcing financial institutions, governments and other organizations to quickly find ways to improve Internet security. In October 2005, the Federal Financial ...

As promised last issue, I’m re-printing a glossary of strong/second factor authentication methods that TriCipher provided me along with the results of its sponsored survey on people’s perceptions of ...

With the deadline passing last year for the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council guidelines for strong authentication, many financial institutions, having prepared their plans to meet ...

Today, consumers rely on mobile and online transactions to manage their bank accounts, sign up for mortgages and pay bills. This convenience has a dark side: fraud and phishing are on the rise. But ...

A couple of weeks ago, we outlined some of the concerns users have about the security of VPNs for corporate use, and some readers have written in saying that their concerns aren’t necessarily about ...

Almost every compromised Microsoft account lacks multi-factor authentication, but few organizations enable it even though it's available, according to Microsoft. In the tech giant's new Cyber Signals ...

The announcement last week that U.S. Bancorp, the eighth-largest U.S. bank, signed a deal with VeriSign Inc. to secure customer access to online commercial banking services could signal a significant ...