Wednesday 23 February 2011

Phone Apps Insecure!

It is becoming more clear to me that as we move into the mobile age, companies need to move to the next generation of identity security. Even the big brands are still burying their heads in the sand, majoring on what the password is its format etc rather than adding another factor to their security.

The world we live in today is fastly moving to mobile, ipads, tablets and phones are the way we all transact, the normal username/password credentials are just not enough to protect us. Yet apps and retailers still expect us to hang our 'assets' on the line when interacting with them. Only yesterday I read that the Starbucks app is insecure, why are they missing that necessary authentication layer.

Starbucks...
Mobile barcode scanning apps have come under fire recently. Earlier this month, security researchers found that the Starbucks iPhone app – which embeds a customer’s payment information in a picture of a barcode – can be hijacked in about 90 seconds. See Christian's Hesslers feature on Privacy Daily.


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Brands who are developing mobile apps and websites can simply deploy LiveEnsure to protect their users from phishing, pharming and man in the middle attacks.LiveEnsure™ uses Digimetric™ technology to uniquely identify computers, cellphones and other devices, without building profiles of the people who use them.


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Thursday 10 February 2011

Authentication is importand for The Big Society

17 February 2011, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
#bsngiving


The UK Government's great ambition is to build a stronger more resilient society where people have more control over their lives and local communities have the motivation and capability to take decisions which impact on them on a daily basis.

This 'Big Society' requires us to develop a generous culture of giving and mutual support.

The Big Society Network exists to convene people from across society to think about, support and generate new ideas to help enable people pursue their individual and collective aspirations.

Give it Up! is a unique opportunity to bring together established thought leaders in this field along with people with new ideas and technology know-how.

LiveEnsureTM will engage with the fresh thinking, and a forum for new connections and ideas.


With Big Society moving to the cloud the security challenge is really about securing the access points – the doors ( and windows if applicable ) to your house ( of data ). For standard lock read – user name and password.

And the reality is that most applications that are accessed via a standard user name and password ‘lock’ are hosted in the Cloud and insecure. LiveEnsure™ is much stronger authentication not identification, easy to implement and easy to scale.
It is a solution that is easy accessible and implementable a SAAS solution; one that is easy to scale (The end user does not have to carry around some kind of device like a dongle or USB key) and one that is strong (is immune to traditional hacks).

We are happy to demonstrate and would like to offer to charities free of charge, your developers can download the freemium version now.

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