Independent research published on Mobile Authentication

You can purchase Forrester Research analyst Bill Nagel’s November 2007 teleconference and report titled “Mobile Authentication Marries Security with Convenience”.

Bill’s reporting highlights a huge opportunity:

“Mobile authentication can be the linchpin that holds together online banking, mobile banking, and mobile payments in a way that marries security with convenience.”*

Convenience is clearly linked to using a mobile phone:

“Mobile authentication takes advantage of the token you already have [i.e. your mobile phone]…Mobile authentication helps banks overcome consumer reluctance by offering them a range of convenient, secure options while saving rollout and ongoing administration costs.”*

Finally, Mobile Authentication … “Foils the man in the middle when used with transaction authentication. Mobile authentication that confirms the transaction details and performs the second authentication factor for the transaction over a separate channel is one of the few methods that solve the man-in-the-middle problem for a reasonable price — both in terms of flexibility and ease of use and of actual cost.”*

Get the full story from Bill himself:

Purchase the report from Forrester: Click here.

Purchase the teleconference from Forrester: Click here.

Bill Nagel’s profile page from Forrester: Click here.

*Bill Nagel: ‘Mobile Authentication Marries Security With Convenience’, Forrester, 16 November 2007