We’re all familiar with the one- or two-step verification processes associated with online or mobile transactions; it slows down a user but provides security for potentially sensitive information. But now, zero-touch authentication could remove the hassle while maintaining security.
Ram Varadarajan, SVP and GM of new business innovation for software developer CA Technologies, explained zero-touch authentication in an interview with RCR Wireless News at the CA World convention in Las Vegas.
Varadarajan was the co-founder and CEO of Arcot Systems up until that company was acquired by CA Technologies. Arcot provided transaction security for mobile Visa purchases, among other services.
“What we did at Arcot was enable Internet scale authentication – that means high convenience and high security at the same time,” Varadarajan said. “That requires a new blend of technologies.”
He described leveraging the “wireless phenomenon and the data phenomenon. We have been able to create models, if you will, that capture user behavior, user shopping experience, user log-on experience and things like that, with such accuracy that we can predict with very, very high confidence whether a particular transaction is more or less likely to be from the same user. We can actually allow a transaction to go through without disturbing the user at all for any kind of authentication.”
Varadarajan said zero-touch authentication can be available in a variety of enterprise use cases.
