CIO OPINION
CIO opinion
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THE INCREASED
POPULARITY OF
ENTERPRISE MOBILE
APPLICATIONS ONLY
HEIGHTENS THE NEED
FOR A CONSUMER-SIMPLE
EXPERIENCE.
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Jim Ducharme, RSA Security’s VP of Identity Products
The top five identity
trends of the year
As technology continues to
innovate, enterprises move
more towards risk-aware
authentication to ensure that
security features such as facial
recognition are reliable. Jim
Ducharme, RSA Security’s VP
of Identity Products, lets us
know the business-driven risks
companies should be taking to
improve user experience.
T
he days where passwords and tokens were our only way of
identifying people and systems is long gone. Today, we have a
vast array of technologies, including: multi-factor authentication
(MFA), standards-based solutions, biometrics and smartphone-based
authentication – to name just a few.
This change has been driven by necessity. Whereas once upon a time,
workers would be tied to their desks, now we have people who are glued
to their mobiles, accessing applications through the cloud. This has a
huge impact on the need to authenticate; previously, it would be pretty
obvious if Bob from finance was accessing the company invoicing
system, as you could see this was happening from his desk – the
static nature of the workplace provided its own version of multi-factor
authentication.
Today, Bob could be accessing it from anywhere, making it much more
difficult to ascertain if it is actually him or someone using his phone or
hijacking an insecure line. These behavioural and organisational shifts
are driving authentication methods in two directions: towards more
convenient access to please users and towards more secure access to
satisfy IT security teams.
Within this context, there are a number of authentication trends that
any business should be keeping an eye on – here are my top five:
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