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CIO
OPINION
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TAKING THIS
BUSINESS-
DRIVEN SECURITY
APPROACH WILL
NOT ONLY HELP
TO LOWER COSTS
BUT WILL ALSO
REDUCE RISKS
AND IMPROVE
THE USER
EXPERIENCE.
industry is starting to step up to and address.
We’re seeing phone manufacturers trying
to establish a verifiable ID that will enable
organisations to feel more confident about
extending trust to a device.
The increased popularity of enterprise
mobile applications only heightens the need
for a consumer-simple experience, one that
provides access control commensurate with
the risk of a given transaction. MFA, SSO,
authentication standards, biometrics and
smartphones will each continue to play a
role as the market moves towards risk-aware
authentication. So watch this space!
for the user but getting to this point has
historically been costly and a complex
challenge for enterprises to solve. Today
however, with a maturing ecosystem of
biometric-ready smartphones – coupled
with the adoption of open standards – the
stars finally seem to be aligning for the
broader adoption of biometrics.
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5. Mobile identity: Smartphone-based
authentication is becoming increasingly
popular but it still poses challenges. Sure, you
can use advanced authentication tools such
as biometrics to provide assurance that the
phone’s owner is the one using the phone;
but how do you know if the phone itself
can be trusted? This is the big question the
Keeping ahead of trends in this area can
not only help to provide security teams with
peace of mind, but to also make life easier
for users. Yet for these techniques to be
effective, they need to be evaluated with the
business in mind. The most important thing
is to work out what is right for your individual
business; where are your most ‘risky’ users,
what applications or systems have the most
vital company data and what kind of access
do each of your users really need?
These kinds of questions will help you focus
your identity strategy on the needs of the
business. Taking this business-driven security
approach will not only help to lower costs
but will also reduce risks and improve the
user experience. n
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