News Archive 2007

04.12.2007
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