http://www.phonefactor.com Two-Factor Authentication Without Tokens Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:55:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While PhoneFactor has been widely deployed as a means to protect banking customers from online fraud, banks are also adopting PhoneFactor to secure another critical access point – remote employee logins. Like other industries, banks are impacted by the shift toward remote access driven by an increasingly mobile workforce and ... http://www.phonefactor.com/blog/secure-banking-remote-access.php Multi-Factor Authentication Critical to Secure All Paths to Customer Financial Data August 25, 2010 – PhoneFactor, Inc., the leading global provider of phone-based multi-factor authentication services, today announced the addition of several new banking institutions to their rapidly growing client list. Heartland Financial USA, OceanFirst Bank, Northway Bank, and CUANY Credit ... http://www.phonefactor.com/news/heartland-financial-joins-long-list-of-banking-institutions-using-phonefactor-to-protect-remote-access.php Microsoft Patches Signal the Successful End to a Year Long Project to Address a Major Vulnerability in the SSL Protocol August 19, 2010 – PhoneFactor, Inc., the leading global provider of phone-based multi-factor authentication services, declares victory on the SSL/TLS authentication project. With Microsoft’s release last week of patches for all ... http://www.phonefactor.com/news/case-closed-on-ssltls-authentication-vulnerability.php It was one year ago this week that I began in earnest a coding project to prove or disprove my suspicion of an exploitable weakness in TLS renegotiation. I fully expected to fail in this endeavor as this protocol was generally regarded as having stood the test of time. Even ... http://www.phonefactor.com/blog/case-closed-ssltls-vulnerability.php After the Department of State and several other large government agencies signed on with PhoneFactor to protect the critical data they store, Editor John Adams sat down to talk to PhoneFactor CTO and co-founder Steve Dispensa about the links from the public world of government to the private sector of ... http://www.phonefactor.com/news/bank-technology-state-department-wants-phonefactor.php (July/August Issue) PhoneFactor was the only authentication vendor to be named. Check it out on page 26! http://www.phonefactor.com/news/security-matters-phonefactor-named-%e2%80%9ccool-stuff-in-identity-management%e2%80%9d.php Governments face a tremendous challenge in addressing cyber security threats. The scope of the problem is enormous, and extends beyond even the broadest definition of cyber warfare to include: Fighting Cyber Crime - In addition to setting policy and regulatory mandates (FFIEC, HIPAA, HITECH) to ensure appropriate measures ... http://www.phonefactor.com/blog/governments-fight-cyber-security-threats.php SecureIDNews points to the need by national security professionals for a product to allow secure access to data anywhere in the world. "The newest clients to the PhoneFactor Inc. roster have been confirmed as the U.S. Department of State, the District of Columbia government, and the Federal Railroad Administration, and hereby ... http://www.phonefactor.com/news/secureidnews-government-agencies-adopt-phonefactor-service.php Demand for PhoneFactor Phone-Based Authentication Escalates Within the Government Sector July 28, 2010 – PhoneFactor, Inc., the leading global provider of phone-based multi-factor authentication services, today announced the addition of the US Department of State, the District of Columbia government, and the Federal Railroad Administration to its client roster. These organizations ... http://www.phonefactor.com/news/government-agencies-adopt-phonefactor.php IBM Certifies PhoneFactor Solution as “Ready for IBM Tivoli” July 7, 2010 – PhoneFactor, Inc., a leading global provider of multi-factor authentication services, today announced that it has added support for IBM Tivoli Access Manager to its suite of authentication solutions and can now seamlessly enable phone-based two-factor authentication to secure ... http://www.phonefactor.com/news/ibm-tivoli-authentication.php