Increase E-Commerce Profits using Risk Based Authentication
Most websites use the combination of usernames and passwords. Both are items that a user knows. Asking “what street did I grow up on”, is just asking more things that a user knows, firms that do this are just implementing more KBA’s. Economics of Authentication To use some basic economics, the addition of the password as opposed to not requiring validation has a huge marginal benefit to the company. Implementing a second, and third and forth has an ever decreasing …
Risk-based authentication process applies varying levels of strictness to the authentication process based on the probability that a given application can be compromised. The authentication process becomes restrictive and casts a wider net based on the increase in risk. Understanding the Types of Authentication Authentication methods are usually grouped into a few different factors. 1. Ownership Factors Bank cards, security tokens, mobile phone. Physical objects which a user is required to be in possession of. The risks to these types