Yes, in many regions and industries, 2FA is a requirement or a primary means to meet requirements. The table below highlights some industries and areas where 2FA will fulfill security requirements: Industry: Banking/Financial Institutions/Investing/P...
The following are typical challenge questions that you answer when setting up an account: What was your first pet’s name? What is your favorite food? What is your mother’s maiden name? In a paper, summarized at WWW 2015, the authors concluded that th...
The following use-cases are typical of the SMS-delivered 2FA scenarios. In many of these use-cases, the user will have already registered a mobile device (for example, phone number) prior to initiating the use-case that requires two-factor authentica...
Two-factor authentication (2FA), a subset of multifactor authentication (MFA), is a scheme that requires at least two authentication factors, including: A knowledge factor (something only the user knows, such as a password or PIN) A possession factor...
Sinch Authentication 365 meets or exceeds industry standards in a number of areas: Sinch Authentication 365’s token generation is implemented using both industry standard RFC 6238 (TOTP) and RFC 4226 (HOTP). Implementation of TOTP algorithms exceed t...
PCI DSS applies to protecting a financial institution’s cardholder data. Our solution for the generation of tokens does not access nor maintain ANY cardholder data. Authentication 365 PIN generation uses industry standard algorithms to generate PINs ...
Authentication 365 by default uses Digital Interconnect's SMS 365 solution, but it can easily be configured to leverage any customer-provided delivery channels.