Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Telisma And PerSay Partner For Voice Authentication

Monday, February 18, 2008

Speech recognition provider Telisma and voice biometric company PerSay have announced a partnership in an effort to provide more comprehensive voice solutions for customers. Telisma offers customers speech technologies in multiple languages across various countries via its speech recognition software, teliSpeech.


For contact centers that support banking, telecommunications and other industries, voice biometrics can be a cost-effective way to enhance security and improve customer convenience. In cases where businesses require what’s known as “triple factor authentication,” voice biometrics can be an important “leg” of the trio, which may also include PIN numbers and a caller’s telephone number identification. [end] 

Yubico and SSO Easy have partnered to create a simplified two-factor authentication for single sign-on (SSO).

Designed for users who must implement strong two-factor authentication for access to SAML-based SSO servers, critical applications and sensitive information, this solution utilizes Yubico’s YubiKey driverless USB-token to log in with a one-time password.

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The Indian start-up ArrayShield Technologies has entered the two-factor authentication market in India and is looking for value-added resellers, managed service providers and system integrators to help it become a player in this field, which it estimates to be nearly Rs 2 billion.

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ValidSoft partnered with Opus Research and released a report titled “Voice Biometrics Authentication Best Practices: Overcoming Obstacles to Adoption” that predicts the technology will be deployed in payment authentication assuming the best practices it lays out are followed.

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Auraya Systems announced the commercial release of its voice authentication solution called ArmorVox Speaker Identity System.

The solution, which was developed for system developers and call centers as either an enterprise or cloud-based solution, fuses text-independent and text-dependent voice-verification that automatically detect languages.

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Gartner Group’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for unique and innovative user authentication products features Equifax’s multifactor authentication product Anakam TFA Two Factor Authentication.

Gartner predicts that by 2017 more than 50% of enterprises will use cloud-based authentication services like Anakam, up from 10% today.

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Online identity protection provider Yubico and cloud server security provider CloudPassage have teamed up to provide authentication services for administrative network access in the cloud.

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