Authentication: Improving Secret Questions

• At 2012 Finovate conference held mid-September in New-York, IDology presented ExpectID Enterprise, its next-gen knowledge-based authentication service.

• This dynamic tool rethinks typically shared secret questions through relying on internal proprietary data. Customer companies may then use this data without exposing or sharing it. As these sensitive pieces of information are not to get compromised they can drop their previous questions.

Source: Finovate Blog

• Founded in 2003, IDology specialises in remote identification. For instance, it proposes an on-demand change management tool for ID control processes.

• Secret question are largely criticised and have often been invalidated by social media and their talkative users. Few social engineering techniques may suffice to “guess” the answers generally fit for identification processes. This considered, ExpectID Enterprise was designed to dynamically benefit from non-compromised data.

• IDology also proposes ExpectID IQ based on same grounds, it is intended for individual customers.