The Case for Phone-based Authentication: Jumping on the Out-of-Band Wagon

Many enterprises are proactively re-evaluating their strategies for authenticating end-users with methods that are stronger than traditional passwords, and solution providers are responding by developing innovative options for authentication that leverage what is arguably the most personal, indispensable and ubiquitous of all mobile devices – the mobile phone. This Analyst Insight frames the recent increase in interest in out-of-band, phone-based authentication which is discernable in Aberdeen’s research.