Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Experts weigh in on bank responses to FFIEC guidelines

Saturday, January 7, 2006

Financial houses strengthen authentication with challenge questions, phone authentication and other means of outsmarting hacker sleuths

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor

Bank of America’s answer to the new federal guidelines isn’t a biometrics apparatus that detects a legit banker’s paw print or a hardware token that generates passwords on the fly. For now, it’s much simpler.

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