This increases the level of security by preventing reverse engineering of an authentication service process or preventing attacks that try to modify this code.
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With support of the integrated Adobe Pass authentication service, users will be able to gain access to over 3, 500 hours of Olympic live stream content.
When it comes to the cloud, authentication and access controls for service providers and enterprises can ensure that only authorized users gain access to cloud-based resources.
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But RSA, the security division of EMC, says 220 companies, including Target, Sears, Macy's, Sprint, T-Mobile and 14 of the 20 largest U.S. financial institutions, use its "knowledge-based authentication" (KBA) service and that it has a "false failure" rate (meaning folks flunking on erroneous public info) of less than 5%.
Longer term, he needs to be more than an authentication company, and more of provisioning service himself.
Critics of Twitter say the service is vulnerable to unauthorized messages because the company hasn't widely implemented "two-factor authentication, " an extra layer of protection to ensure a person who enters a password to a digital service is the authorized user.
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Mr Ferguson noted that as Twitter remained a free service supported by advertising, two-factor authentication could prove costly.
And a few interesting companies like Agari, formerly Authentication Metrics Inc, (AMI) have built a service around this technology that lets senders fraud-proof their mail.
In private beta for several months, the solution adds an easy to use service that bridges all the security, regulatory and authentication requirements of healthcare with the elegant simplicity of an email interface.
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Each device has distinct security characteristics, which can pose significant technical challenges to authentication, but by offering a unified, comprehensive content security service, the industry can eliminate this first major hurdle to TV everywhere.
Google announced last week, for instance, that it will offer two-factor authentication on many of its online services, and may make the service open source and available to other companies.
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The result is the creation of a well-executed service such as HBO GO that offers video on demand through mobile devices but requires authentication of a full cable subscription.
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