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A Phishing Story
With realistic risk assessment, it is possible to build a cost-effective, scalable solution to counteract Phishing. The user must be considered and the need for changes must be recognized
Science Behind Passfaces
Significant research has been conducted regarding the brain’s ability to recognize faces. The brain treats face recognition differently than it does shapes and objects which serves as the core technology of Passfaces.
  
Passfaces and FFIEC Guidance
An effective authentication method should have customer acceptance, reliable performance, scalability to accommodate growth, and interoperability with existing systems and future plans.
Countermeasures for Phishing and Malware
Reports of phishing attacks have inundated the press. The cleverness of social engineering has again damaged the prospects for online commerce, and online banking services in particular.
 
 

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(NIST) Electronic Authentication Guideline
Technical guidance to Federal agencies implementing electronic authentication. Passfaces is included in this guideline in Section A.2 of the Appendix, pg. 52, as an allowable alternative or adjunct to text passwords.
FFIEC GUIDANCE
Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has issued “Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment.” Financial Institutions must comply no later than year-end 2006. 
  
Technologies to Defeat Online Identity Theft
Report From Anti-Phishing Working Group Surveys and Analyzes Technologies to Combat ''Phishing''; U.S. Department of Homeland Security-Commissioned Report Recommends Technologies to Defeat Online Identity Theft; author Aaron Emigh of Radix Labs.
   
 
 

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