TalkTalk, a provider of “quadruple play” communications and entertainment services, now enables its subscribers to use their voice to speed up secure access to its automated service lines.
mobile security
Google Adds Voice Biometrics to its Android Authentication Options
Version 7.0 of Google Play Services features “Trusted Voice,” which enables smartphone owners to speak a selected passphrase to receive updates or download new apps.
Auraya Mobilizes Voice Authentication with Amorvox for Android
Auraya now offers a version of core software, ArmorVox10, designed specifically for on-device authentication.
Webcast: “Seven Ways to ‘Kill’ PINs and Passwords”
Just in time for Halloween, Dan Miller, lead analyst at Opus Research, will join Alexey Khitrov, president of SpeechPro Inc., to describe how voice and face recognition mean doom for the most common, and vulnerable, forms of mobile and online security.
South Africa Steps Up Activity Around Voice Passwords
Vodacom positions Voice Password as “worry-free, easy to use and secure.” Subscribers enroll through the app, which is downloadable from Google Play or from the Vodacom Web site.
VBC-SF in Review: Growth Through Partnerships that Promote Trust
Speakers at #vbcsf2014 made the case that biometric-based technologies are being integrated into fraud prevention and mobile authentication implementations around the world.
Authentify’s xFA(TM) Brings Smartphones and Unique Cryptographs Together with Voice Authentication
A new service, called xFA(TM), from Authentify provides a glimpse of multifactor authentication’s future. Building on the company’s legacy of certificate-based, out-of-band, phone-based user authentication, the company is employing a new, screen-based approach to replacing OTP (one-time passwords) or KBA (knowledge-based authentication) in order to log-on to a secure network.
McAfee’s LiveSafe Suite uses Face Recognition and Voice Biometrics to Protect Personal Information
Security software specialist McAfee (an Intel Company) has introduced a comprehensive new service called LiveSafe, to help individuals protect “unlimited number of PCs, Macs, smartphones or tablets.”
#VBCSF In Review: Real World Implementations, Open Issues and Future Opportunities
Voice Biometrics Conference 2013-San Francisco highlighted the growing need for better authentication and the role that voice biometrics can play far beyond its original presence alongside IVRs (interactive voice response systems) in enterprise contact centers.
News from Voice Biometrics Conference-San Francisco: Voice Authentication Making Passwords Passe at Barclay’s
Nuance Communications has issued two press releases that emphasize the game changing role that voice-based authentication is playing to improve customer care. The releases coincide with Day One of Voice Biometrics Conference – San Francisco.