Introducing the New Webcam Authentication for Windows

When it comes to multi-factor authentication (MFA), it’s now standard practice to enable it through the use of a “companion device” – most of the time, this is your mobile. But if you think about it, what’s the user experience really like?

How many times have you sat down at your desk, ready to start the day, you open your laptop and your login for accessing the company systems kicks in. To authenticate you, a notification is sent to your mobile-only you’ve left your mobile in another room. You get up from your desk, go get your phone and when you get back, the authentication window has timed out and you need to start again. And this is without other hassles, such as a lost or broken mobile.

And another consideration here - did you know that according to this article in 

: “Employees use an average of 191 passwords to enter 154 times in a given month, racking up an estimated 36 minutes of password data entry during that time, according to a report released today.”

That’s a lot of time lost, entering passwords...

Whatever the situation, we believe security, user experience and productivity don’t need to be compromised.

Windows Webcam Strong Authentication is Here

At Keyless we are continually working to enhance the security of organizations through passwordless, biometric authentication. While we offer it through mobile, as a companion device to laptops, we wanted to give even more flexibility for users authenticating via their organization’s existing identity and access management (IAM) solution.

With Webcam Authentication for Windows, you can enrol for passwordless biometric authentication through the camera on your laptop, or you can simply add your laptop as a trusted device in your authenticator app.

By enabling this feature, organizations can:

Giving you authentication choices 

As of today, joint customers can now take advantage of Keyless’s biometric authentication solutions via IBM Security Verify

Keyless is pleased to announce its integration with IBM Security Verify to help drive the adoption of cutting-edge cloud authentication solutions that can help organizations eliminate avoidable cyber threats.  

IBM Security Verify, IBM’s cloud identity and access management solution, was recently named a leader in risk-based authentication, access management and customer identity and access management by multiple analyst firms. With the integration, Keyless wants to help organizations protect against avoidable threats and poor customer experiences caused by legacy authentication technologies that are still dependent on passwords and one-time codes, such as SMS-2FA.

Keyless, which offers solutions for both workforce and consumer authentication, is currently accelerating its goal to becoming a leading partner for cloud identity and access management providers – having already partnered with the likes of Microsoft, OneLogin, Auth0, ForgeRock, and Oracle earlier this year.

By combining advanced facial recognition and device identification technology, Keyless offers organizations a way to seamlessly authenticate users. Its biometric software is built upon novel privacy-first technology to ensure biometric data is never at risk – meaning organizations can embrace user-friendly biometrics while simultaneously enhancing compliance standards.

Keyless partners with IBM Security Verify to reduce reliance on legacy cybersecurity solutions

Taking Pioneering Biometric Authentication to a New Level

This piece is brought to you by Keyless co-founders: Andrea Carmignani, CEO; Fabian Eberle, COO; and Paolo Gasti, CTO. 

At Keyless, our mission is to provide people and organizations with a passwordless future, where the user is the key. We want to do it in a way that lets people log in to any app or service, from any device, easily and safe in the knowledge that they have the privacy they deserve, and for organizations to maintain security and compliance for their systems and users.

Not only have we achieved that, we continuously work to improve how we do that.

By bringing together over 10 years of research from some of the best minds in cryptography and biometrics, the Keyless team has built and patented pioneering biometric authentication technology that meets the compliance requirements of PSD2, has received FIDO® certifications, and helps online businesses more easily meet the requirements of GDPR. We have a product that we are proud of—that our partners and our customers are proud of.

So today, we are excited to announce that we’re taking Keyless to a new level: Keyless will become part of 

, the leader in Digital Trust & Safety. We’ve made this decision because Sift’s mission closely matches ours—to help everyone trust the internet—and together with Sift, we can deliver on our mission to help everyone achieve a passwordless future.

Digital identity sits at the intersection of user experience, security, and privacy, and as organizations face unprecedented phishing attacks, fraud, and account takeovers, it presents one of the biggest challenges right now—particularly in high-profile, consumer-reliant industries, such as financial services and e-commerce. Therefore, the role of authentication is a critical step in addressing these challenges and preventing fraud. The combination of Sift + Keyless delivers end-to-end growth and protection for all online or digital sites, as current and future customers can leverage passwordless biometric authentication along with Sift’s other Digital Trust & Safety solutions to secure and enhance the customer experience, from account creation to payments to managing disputes.

While this is a big step in our journey as a company, at Keyless our focus and commitment will remain on protecting employee and customer credentials. And with the combination of Sift + Keyless, organizations can take a strong, proactive stance against all fraudulent activity, throughout the customer journey—whether it’s at the point of login, sign up with KYC (Know Your Customer) processes, or in-app authentication.

If you would like to know more about the acquisition, check out the press release. And if you would like to know how Sift+Keyless can help your organization, please 

Keyless is joining Sift — The Leader in Digital Trust & Safety

Keyless is Joining Sift—the Leader in Digital Trust & Safety

Keyless is working with Oracle to help organizations fight threats and acclimatize to the new normal, with zero-trust authentication

Keyless is working with Oracle to help organizations innovate quickly and securely when it comes to user identity and authentication. Keyless is part of Oracle for Startups, Oracle’s global program to support entrepreneurs and innovators, and builds its solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

When looking to the post-pandemic work environment, 76% of organizations want to cultivate permanent remote-working spaces. Keyless is helping organizations adjust, by providing multi-factor authentication solutions that combine multimodal biometrics and device identification. This enables them to provide frictionless access to company data and systems from anywhere in the world.

Building on the highly secure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Keyless will provide organizations with a way to fast-track the evolution of their authentication and identity management technologies, by adopting modern, cloud-based solutions that offer enhanced protection outside of the traditional network security perimeters. This migration will help organizations eliminate credential-based threats, enhance employee productivity and mitigate compliance risks in a post-COVID environment.

Keyless’ interoperable solutions leverage privacy-enhancing cryptography to help ensure biometric data and other personally identifiable information is protected from compromise. This enables organizations to embrace cutting-edge biometric solutions and mitigate compliance risks. 

Working with Oracle will help Keyless realize its vision to bring innovative and best-in-class identity solutions to the global market.

Keyless and Oracle partner to accelerate digital transformation with cloud-based security solutions

Biometric authentication firm, Keyless, partners with Finema to help organizations empower their users to have more control over their digital identities 

Keyless and Finema, a company dedicated to helping organizations construct their digital identity infrastructures by providing self sovereign and decentralized identity solutions, are joining forces to help accelerate adoption of these technologies.

As the concept of the digital economy continues to overtake traditional ways of doing business, privacy is becoming one of the key concerns for consumers. As a result, organizations can no longer focus on just trying to balance user experience and security. If they want to maintain the trust and loyalty of their customers – privacy needs to be high on the agenda.

Finema, the first decentralized digital identity company in Thailand, is among only a few in Asia who have developed proof and verification systems under the paradigm of self-sovereign identity (SSI). It is a world-changing technological concept in which a person is able to have absolute ownership of their digital identity. 

Adoption of blockchain-based services, such as digital wallets, has been painfully slow. Part of the reason is because organizations find it hard to move from traditional authentication services. Coupled with the fact that consumers themselves have concerns, around things such as privacy as well as usability – for example, some services require the creation of long, complex passwords, which in turn, can be lost – also contributes to the slow adoption rates. 

This is where Keyless steps in.  Biometric authentication software that is intuitive to use, will make it easy for users to enrol to, and begin benefitting from services offered on these technologies. Using the Keyless technology, users can do away with passwords, and instead manage their cryptographic keys, with device-agnostic biometrics. In this way, the user becomes the key and their biometric data is never stored on a single device, or in a single data centre.

Keyless differs from other biometric authentication vendors as it’s a software-only solution, meaning it doesn’t rely on manufacturer hardware or technology. That means Finema customers can quickly and easily deploy biometric authentication into their apps and services. 

Finema and Keyless will work together to accelerate adoption of their combined solution in a joint go-to-market strategy. 

Keyless is a privacy-first passwordless authentication and personal identity management company. They are the first to combine multi-modal biometrics with privacy-enhancing technologies and a distributed cloud network for biometric authentication. Keyless’ proprietary technology eliminates the need for businesses to centrally store and manage passwords, biometric data, and other sensitive personal identifiable information.

Founded in 2017 as the first decentralized digital identity company in Thailand, Finema aims to take the world forward with decentralized digital identity technology. Finema collaborates with both public and private sectors to implement innovative solutions to practical problems people encounter in their modern-day life. Finema believes in creating a positive impact, not just buzzwords. The company is a major player in decentralized digital identity development. 

For more information, visit https://finema.co/ or follow Finema on LinkedIn 

Keyless and Finema partner to accelerate adoption of self-sovereign and decentralized identity technologies

Keyless are excited to partner with Check Point Software Technologies to bring privacy-first biometric authentication to enterprises looking to enhance remote security. 

As organizations increasingly plan for a more people-centric approach, which requires location and device-independent solutions, this partnership comes at a good time. Integrated directly with Check Point’s VPN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) protected applications, Check Point customers can now easily deploy zero-trust biometric authentication. This can be done in conjunction with their existing cyber security infrastructure, to help combat threats such as stolen credentials. 

Using Keyless’ biometric authentication software, Check Point customers can enable their employees to authenticate to corporate systems simply by looking into the front-facing camera of their device, eradicating the need for passwords. 

Keyless differs from other biometric authentication vendors as it’s a software-only solution. That means it doesn’t rely on manufacturer hardware or technology. The value to Check Point customers is that they can quickly deploy biometric authentication to employees without needing to overhaul or replace existing security infrastructure. 

Check Point and Keyless will work together to accelerate adoption of their combined solution in a joint go-to-market strategy.

Check Point Keyless Passwordless Authentication

Keyless partners with Check Point Software to bring privacy-first biometrics to enterprises

We’re excited to announce we’ve  joined the FIDO Alliance to help accelerate the Alliance’s mission to end over-reliance on passwords with our privacy-first biometric authentication solutions

 is a cross-industry coalition developing open, interoperable authentication standards that reduce reliance on passwords. The alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.

Keyless is the first and only biometric vendor to achieve both FIDO2 and FIDO Biometrics Certification from the FIDO Alliance.*

 with zero-trust security to provide fast, frictionless authentication experiences that offer strong adherence to regulations such as GDPR and 

, a requirement of Europe’s revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

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*This article was amended to include this new development.

Keyless joins the FIDO Alliance to help drive adoption of passwordless solutions

Keyless is now an official member of the FIDO Alliance

Advancements in biometrics have reached a point where the technology can reliably replace passwords, eliminate threats, and enhance the customer experience all at once. It’s time for enterprises to take a multi-modal approach to biometric authentication and identity management.

Biometrics are fast, easy, and eliminate our reliance on passwords and PINs, however, despite their growing popularity and benefits, biometrics have their own unique challenges when it comes to widespread adoption, mainly due to reliability and privacy.

Most solutions on the market today only offer single-modal biometrics to authenticate users — this could be one of the reasons that that 

, particularly at the enterprise level in industries that would benefit most from the technology in terms of user experience, but require greater assurance that their users or employees are who they claim to be.

 of single-modal biometric systems plays a part in this. Single-biometric solutions are less likely to withstand advanced spoofing threats and are also less likely to correctly match biometric templates as a user’s physical characteristics change, whether due to the natural aging process or suddenly as a result of an accident or disability. As a result, the reliability of single-modal biometrics is often questioned.

Multi-modal biometrics offer a breakthrough solution to these challenges — empowering businesses to finally part ways with passwords and other archaic authentication methods.

Multi-modal solutions that combine physical and behavioral biometrics enable companies to enhance security, without disturbing the user experience.

The most popular biometric solutions leverage a user’s unique physical traits to authenticate them. Biometric templates are created by mapping a user’s unique physical traits. For example, at Keyless we use Neural Networks, a deep learning technique to extract high-dimensional feature vectors from sequences of images of the user’s face.

Behavioral biometrics, on the other hand, leverage deep learning to recognize unique patterns in how a user interacts with a device over time. These patterns could be based on how the user taps, swipes, or holds their device. Once patterns have been recognized, they can be transformed into biometric templates that can be used to monitor access to a user’s device in real-time.

 offer enhanced usability as they require no conscious effort from the user, allowing for continuous, frictionless authentication, enabling companies to frequently verify that a user is who they say they are, without disrupting the user. Physical biometrics, on the other hand, are better suited to one-time authentication, as they typically require conscious effort from the user.

Frictionless security powered by who the user is, not what they know

When it comes to enabling fast, secure authentication, because biometrics are inherently user-friendly, a 

 approach to authentication can directly solve the trade-off between convenience and security.

Multi-modal solutions give companies greater control over managing remote access to their private systems and data. For example, if an employee logs in but then the system recognizes unusual behavior (such as different keystrokes or tapping patterns), then it can log the user out.

The Keyless approach to biometric authentication

At Keyless we take a multi-modal approach to biometrics, leveraging both physical and behavioral biometrics to offer a seamless authentication solution that allows companies to reliably identify users.

The Keyless protocol allows for several physical biometric modalities including facial, fingerprint, voice, and iris recognition; as well as behavioral modalities like keystroke and swipe recognition.

Using deep learning to ensure high-accuracy

To offer behavioral biometrics, we must first learn how users interact with their devices. We do this by feeding deep-learning algorithms unique, user-generated data captured through sensors on the user’s mobile device.

Each input can be gauged on its reliability in authenticating an individual user. Once it’s considered reliable enough for identifying the user with high accuracy, the feature can be added to the user’s biometric templates.

Since biometrics are uniquely linked to the individual, it’s important that companies processing biometric data take extra measures to protect it against both new and emerging threats.

Keyless ensures that the biometric data we capture is never at risk of being stolen, compromised, or lost by combining multi-modal biometrics with privacy-enhancing technologies. The combination of privacy-enhancing technologies, deep-learning, and multi-modal biometrics uniquely addresses the greatest barriers facing the adoption of biometric authentication solutions.

Read these pieces to gain a better understanding of how we leverage privacy-enhancing technologies to protect biometric data: 

Keyless and Secure Multiparty Computation

Closing the gap between security and convenience

Multi-modal biometric solutions enable a high level of security without causing undue disruptions to the authentication experience. Rather, multi-modal solutions can enhance the authentication experience by offering frequent, unconscious authentication that can be used to detect advanced threats.

biometric challenges to users, multi-modal solutions

protect private systems and data in the rare event of successful spoofing attempts or account takeovers that take place after the point of authentication.

Thus multimodal biometric solutions can help companies close the gap between security and convenience, allowing for more seamless authentication and identity management experiences that enhance security and privacy compliance, without sacrificing the authentication experience or productivity.

Keyless™ authentication can help deliver secure and seamless digital experiences for your end-users and for your increasingly remote workforce.

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Tapping into the potential of multi-modal biometrics

As a certified ISV Partner, Microsoft Azure AD B2C customers can now easily deploy Keyless to provide frictionless, privacy-first MFA.

We’re pleased to announce that we are now working with Microsoft as a certified ISV partner to help drive the adoption of passwordless authentication solutions so that businesses can eliminate threats caused by compromised and weak user credentials.

Keyless will provide Microsoft’s Azure AD B2C customers with a fast way to deploy secure, reliable biometric-enabled multi-factor authentication solutions to help strengthen security and eliminate passwords.

Our privacy-first solutions leverage advanced facial recognition technology and machine learning to seamlessly authenticate users without passwords. Users simply look into the front-facing camera of their trusted mobile device to access their accounts and services.

The Keyless partnership with Microsoft Azure AD B2C offers customers

1. Rapid deployment of SCA compliant passwordless MFA solution

Keyless is designed to seamlessly integrate with existing IAM offerings so that businesses can quickly deploy strong passwordless authentication to their users.

Keyless is compatible with all modern devices and operating systems, so businesses can now provide their users with a unified authentication experience across devices and platforms.

3. Multimodal biometrics for enhanced security

Our multimodal approach to biometric authentication means that businesses can have greater assurance a user is who they claim to be online.

Keyless offers multi-factor security by design by combining multimodal biometrics with device identification. Each time a user attempts to authenticate we also verify that the authentication request is being launched from their trusted device.

Keyless users are only able to enroll for biometric authentication once. This means that users have one set of biometric templates across all their devices and accounts — even for different services. This helps prevent advanced spoofing attacks and credential sharing.

Our novel use of privacy-enhancing technologies allows us to perform secure biometric authentication that does not jeopardize user privacy — biometric data is never at risk of being stolen, lost, or compromised.

To learn more about how Keyless can help you deploy lighting fast authentication to your users, 

visit our listing on Microsoft Azure AD B2C.

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