This is certainly one of the most compelling security highlights of Interop 2007.

Posted  May 31, 2007 By Steve

It’s been gratifying to see the industry’s reaction to our announcement of PhoneFactor. The latest is a blog post from Brokmann & Company, PhoneFactor Makes Security Tokens Obsolete. Peter Brokmann had a lot of nice things to say about the service. Here’s one of my favorite quotes:

I think back to my own experience with the SecureID card at a high tech manufacturer. I constantly lost the little fob, or broke it. At one point I asked my authentication administrator for a stack of pre-addressed mail back envelopes to improve my productivity. The ability of the PhoneFactor to simply use my mobile phone (something I already have with me) greatly improves the likelihood of a successful authentication. In fact, I can lose my cell phone, but because it’s the number that authenticates, simply replacing the phone and keeping the number means I can still authenticate to my network and services.

This is something we’ve heard repeatedly during our beta testing as well – nobody likes the idea of carrying around an extra device, and everyone already has a mobile phone anyway.

I’m keeping a running list of press mentions at http://del.icio.us/dispensa/PhoneFactor, with links to a lot of what has been written recently.