by Mark Diodati | May 7, 2012 | 2 Comments
Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Sharon Epperson (CNBC/Today/NBC News). She was preparing for a Today show segment on the security of mint.com. I address this topic in my 2011 FFIEC authentication guidance document. Mint.com is Quicken for the cloud era. Like Quicken, it enables the analysis of personal financial data, including banking, [...]
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by Mark Diodati | April 20, 2012 | Comments Off
I want to welcome you to a multi-post discussion about near-field communication (NFC). Over the next few blog posts, I will be talking about: NFC’s moving parts Impending demand from your users NFC’s potential for access to buildings and applications Missing ecosystem components The next revolution in mobility is coming: it is near field communication [...]
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by Mark Diodati | April 12, 2012 | Comments Off
The topic of the secure distribution of one-time password (OTP) secrets recently surfaced again as part of our ongoing mobility research. Many organizations make the classic distribution mistake; they couple a weak identity proofing mechanism with the deployment of stronger authentication systems1. In our research, I call this an “impendance mismatch”. For example, if an [...]
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by Mark Diodati | February 19, 2012 | Comments Off
Industry analysts discuss emerging concepts and current events with journalists. We are misquoted more than you might think (or we would like). Sometimes the misquote is minor. On occasion, the statement attributed to us differs materially from our original statement; we are inclined to speak out and make a correction. Misquotes can be the result [...]
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