“Today’s businesses are under immense pressure to fend off sophisticated cyber threats while simultaneously delivering seamless customer experiences and keeping costs in check,” says Liminal CEO Travis Jarae. “The Link Index for Customer Authentication zeroes in on the top providers who excel in these areas, offering scalable, flexible solutions that improve security, customer satisfaction, and financial performance. This report equips businesses with actionable insights to make fast, informed decisions in a dynamic market.”

The market has matured, with component solutions converging into a crowded space for integrated authentication platforms, where basic authentication features are now commoditized and embedded in adjacent customer identity-oriented products. The report highlights the diversity of the customer authentication market, showcasing vendors ranging from global cloud service providers and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) giants to emerging biometrics companies. These evaluated companies vary significantly in size, product suites, and approaches to solving authentication challenges. In this competitive landscape, the top 15 providers have emerged with solutions that meet the market’s needs for enhanced security, operational efficiency, and user experience.

The Link Index for Customer Authentication breaks down each vendor’s core capabilities, market influence, and go-to-market strategy. It emphasizes advanced features like AI-driven risk decision-making, passwordless authentication, and comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) capabilities. Vendors combining identity proofing, fraud detection, and user management are notably effective. The top 15 distinguished themselves by meeting a minimum product execution threshold and minimum strategy threshold. For detailed evaluation criteria, visit our website to access the full report.

Leading customer authentication solutions offer significant benefits, such as reducing account recovery costs, lowering call center expenses, and decreasing customer churn, with businesses saving millions of dollars annually. Companies across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, and travel, see a significant return on investment by adopting these advanced solutions. For a list of the top-ranked vendors, their product details, and a breakdown of ROI by industry and company size, explore your options for accessing the report.

Link Index Methodology
Using data and insights from Liminal’s Link platform, the Link Index evaluates and ranks leading vendors based on specific use cases. Liminal’s proprietary framework assesses product capabilities according to market trends and buyer needs, supported by the Liminal Landscape taxonomy and ontology. This involves a thorough buyer survey to identify key features and valued components, considering factors like customer satisfaction, market penetration, and brand recognition. Members can sign in to their Link account and view the report for complete results. Not yet a member? Explore your options to access the benchmark report.

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MajorKey Technologies, a market-leading identity security company backed by The Acacia Group, and Clango, renowned identity security specialists with particular strengths in privileged access management, have announced their merger. This union creates one of the largest and most capable full-service pure play identity and access management businesses in the market today. With over 200 professionals, including 160 U.S.- and globally based identity specialists, the combined company delivers strategic advisory, system design, implementation and managed services to Fortune 500 customers and public-sector agencies.

“The merger of MajorKey and Clango creates a dynamic new force in identity security,” said Michael Yario, CEO of MajorKey. “We share a commitment to helping clients use their investments in identity wisely. To us, that means not only protecting their people, customers, applications and data but also helping them open new opportunities for innovation and growth. This approach, combined with our deep knowledge across all the major identity technologies and our expanded advisory and delivery capacity, makes us a key ally to customers seeking solutions that drive their organizations forward. It’s an exciting time — full of opportunity for our combined team to unlock new value for our customers.”

“The rationale for us coming together was clear from the start of our discussions,” said Duane Graham, founder and CEO of Clango. “Our customers gain from industry-leading strategic guidance and assured delivery across the major identity platforms. Our greater scale makes us more competitive and capable of handling much larger, more complex projects. Our technology partners benefit from our combined strength in sales and technical thought leadership. The merger is also a win for our people. They’ll have many new opportunities to contribute to exciting projects and expand their skills. It’s a perfect blend of capabilities and culture. I’m excited about the impact we’ll make together as we take MajorKey to new heights.”

By joining forces, MajorKey and Clango form a company accomplished in all critical aspects of identity management and security for both human and nonhuman identities across the hybrid enterprise. Chicago-based MajorKey, founded in 1998, has extensive experience in IAM. Clango, established in 1993 and based in Washington D.C., is a market leader in PAM with extensive capabilities in identity governance and administration.

Both companies have vast experience helping enterprise and government customers shape their identity strategies and design, build and sustain the right identity architecture for their organizations. This combination of capabilities and experience — along with deep relationships with the leading identity software vendors, including CyberArk, Delinea, Microsoft, Okta, Ping, SailPoint and Saviynt — boosts the combined company’s ability to help customers navigate a complex array of technologies in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

“This union marks a significant advance in our strategy to build the most capable identity security business in the market today,” said Fred Cassis, managing partner at The Acacia Group. “The scope and scale of the combined company’s skills and experience position MajorKey as an agile partner to enterprise customers. Importantly, it also gives the combined team fantastic new opportunities to grow professionally as part of an employee-centric culture that values everyone’s contributions.”

Michael Yario will be CEO of the combined company, focusing on strategic customer relationships and corporate growth. He will work alongside Duane Graham, who, as president, will have executive oversight of the company’s client service and strategic technology initiatives. Graham also joins the MajorKey board. Over time, the company will transition to operating under the MajorKey brand.

Houlihan Lokey acted as exclusive placement agent for Acacia.

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“To demonstrate their efforts in building cyber resilience, organizations must collect a lot of information proving their password management policies are in place, and working. While this process required manual work, together with Vanta we are now offering a smooth and automated way to prepare data needed to prove companies’ compliance,” says Karolis Arbaciauskas, head of business product at NordPass.

This automated password management data collection process helps identify gaps restricting companies from achieving compliance certifications, such as SOC2, ISO 270001, or HIPAA. It also saves employees’ time, allowing them to shift their focus from tiring reporting to addressing cyber risks. With the new integration, the compliance data is being updated real-time, which is handy both when acquiring and maintaining certifications.

According to Arbaciauskas, companies sometimes hesitate to adopt compliance automation because of the rather complicated integration process with service providers. To address this, NordPass has ensured that people with no advanced technical knowledge can enable Vanta integration themselves. NordPass Business, and Enterprise users with Admin rights can complete the setup in the Admin panel simply by clicking on “Connect with Vanta.”

“Security and ease of use are the core pillars in our product development, and we aim to reflect them throughout the entire user journey. With ever strengthening compliance requirements, information collection also becomes an inseparable part of it. Together with Vanta, we offer a straightforward and uncomplicated way towards meeting cyber resilience criteria,” says Arbaciauskas.

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OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor solutions, including advanced digital imaging, analog, and touch & display technology, today announced the new OV01D1R intelligent CMOS image sensor, the first sensor for the computing industry to address human presence detection (HPD), infrared (IR) facial authentication and always-on (AON) technology with a single sensing camera – while retaining low power consumption and operating independently from the laptop’s RGB camera.

Biometric authentication and HPD are becoming increasingly common in laptops due to the need for privacy and the convenience of immediate and touch-free login. HPD has traditionally been powered by AON streaming from the RGB sensor. However, the HPD is disabled when the RGB sensor is blocked by the physical privacy shutter.

“OMNIVISION has solved this problem by implementing a completely new sensor design involving the first-ever integrated camera solution: mono-IR + AON. Even when the RGB sensor is blocked by the physical privacy shutter, the HPD and facial recognition features can still be achieved by the separate OV01D sensor. The device maintains ultra-low-power streaming for AON while the 2-micron (µm) pixel has a high performance in terms of sensitivity and MTF (modulation transfer function), allowing it to maintain the HPD and facial authentication functions,” said Jason Chiang, staff marketing manager computing, OMNIVISION. “In addition, cost and module design complexity are reduced due to our ability to combine the capabilities of three to four sensors into a single device. We are excited to see the OV01D1R sensor implemented into 2025 model laptops and beyond.”

The OV01D1R features an innovative mono-IR color filter array that supports both HPD and facial recognition in a single sensing camera. Based on PureCel® pixel technology, the OV01D1R is a raw 1-megapixel (MP), low-power (4.7mW@3fps) image sensor in a 1/6.13-inch optical format. It delivers 1280 x 720 resolution at 30 frames per second (fps). Applications for the new sensor include cameras embedded into notebooks, tablets, monitors and webcams, as well as doorbell and home security cameras.

The OV01D1R is available for sampling now, and it will be in mass production in Q4 2024. For more information, contact an OMNIVISION sales representative: www.ovt.com/contact-sales.

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Nametag, Inc. today announced that it has been issued a patent relating to account recovery that, together with Nametag’s identity verification platform, solves a critical challenge of multi-factor authentication (MFA). Organizations using Nametag can offer users a fast, secure experience for enrolling new MFA devices using a government-issued ID and a selfie photo. The technology remediates a key user experience gap and a critical point of vulnerability that threat actors frequently exploit for account takeovers (ATOs) leading to data breaches and ransomware events.

“This technology marks an important milestone in multi-factor authentication,” said Nametag CEO Aaron Painter. “Organizations deploying MFA are quickly discovering that the account recovery process is a major blindspot in experience and security. Our technology enables seamless MFA rebinding that reduces cost and risk for our customers while saving people time and frustration. We congratulate our team on this patent and for bringing this technology to the industry to help improve outcomes in both security and user experience.”

Nearly two-thirds of users authenticate with MFA, according to Okta. But as companies increasingly adopt mandatory-MFA policies, they are faced with a wave of users who get locked out when they change devices. Companies need to verify whether these requests are from legitimate users trying to recover access to their accounts, or from bad actors trying to take over those accounts.

To do so, organizations often require users to contact the company’s helpdesk in order to reset MFA and other authentication methods such as passwords. But this creates a long, frustrating process for users and puts helpdesk agents at risk of impersonators who are armed with advanced social engineering techniques and AI-generated deepfakes.

Nametag solves these problems with the only account recovery solution built on identity verification technology that proactively prevents digital injection attacks and deepfake presentation attacks. Nametag’s self-service and agent-assisted solutions deflect MFA and password resets to self-service while empowering helpdesk agents to quickly verify whomever they’re talking with.

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“IBM Security Verify offers its users easy access to needed systems while securing sensitive applications behind a tight lock,” said Matt Cochran, COO of ID Dataweb. “Our identity verification workflows then ensure that the key is given only to the correct users. IBM’s innovative approach to IAM makes for smooth integration and a great collaboration, and our joint customers are the ones that truly stand to benefit.”

“By leveraging ID Dataweb with IBM Security Verify, our joint customers can orchestrate valuable identity verification capabilities – including helping to streamline fraud prevention,” stated Milan Patel, Senior Product Manager, IBM Security Verify. “We look forward to leveraging the ID Dataweb platform to create even more advanced functionality for organizations as our decentralized identity and verifiable credentials capabilities orchestrate portable, verified, and user centric identity.”

By integrating ID Dataweb with IBM Security Verify, customers will benefit from:

• Pre-built templates that allow administrators to create identity-proofing journeys for specific security and user experience needs.
• Orchestration tools that easily allow security architects and administrators to create and manage the identity verification process, password resets, evaluation of multi-factor authentication, and new account creation.
• Identity-proofing workflows, which verify and authenticate the identity of a person trying to access a service or system, are IAL 2 certified and flexible enough to create the seamless digital experience customers expect. By ensuring the digital user is the expected person, Account Takeover (ATO) and Account Opening fraud are mitigated.

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Saviynt, a leading provider of cloud-native identity and governance platform solutions, today announced from its Booth #1606 at Identiverse in Las Vegas that its customers are replacing inadequate legacy systems with its automated, intelligent cloud-native platform, the Identity Cloud. The platform, which provides visibility, control, intelligence, and rapid time-to-value, protects more than 60 million identities and counting with an increased return on investment (ROI) so organizations can eliminate the cost of legacy and point solutions, manual provisioning and access certification.

“We were looking to free ourselves from the costs and burden of managing on-premises servers from legacy systems, so we sought out a cloud-native solution like Saviynt,” CISO at Ingredion Kenneth Townsend said in a recent case study. “We also wanted a solution that would be easy to learn and intuitive to manage, and that would enable rapid application onboarding. Robust reporting capabilities and the ability to leverage automation – as well as analytic insights from ML and AI – were also must-haves. We found everything we were looking for in Saviynt’s full-featured Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform, the Identity Cloud.”

Saviynt’s Identity Cloud manages all identities through a single pane of glass, allowing organizations to mitigate risk and focus on what matters. Its intuitive user experience, centralized identity warehouse, and advanced analytics increases an organization’s security posture without impacting business operations.

“The vast majority of organizations that have implemented on-premises, legacy IAM solutions, have done so because of a lack of good alternatives. These organizations were trying to address very complex security requirements, satisfy regulations, and all the most complete IGA and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions used to be legacy, software based,” said Henrique Teixeira, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Saviynt. “These organizations are dealing today with a massive technical debt challenge, which is many times inevitable with on-premises IAM apps. A Gartner survey says technical debt is one of the top challenges for infrastructure and operations for the past five years. Thankfully, technology has evolved, and organizations finally have a no-compromise alternative with the converged Identity Cloud offered by Saviynt. The Identity Cloud is stronger in terms of capabilities, offering full IGA and PAM features, and it is easier to manage than legacy solutions, because it’s a cloud delivered solution. It’s the best of both worlds.”

Legacy systems are falling short as the Identity Cloud improves operational efficiencies by up to 50% and provides the following benefits of an intelligent platform:

• Consolidate Core Identity Security Functions: A single solution that combines IGA, PAM, and external and application access governance using the same management console, processes, and design characteristics that simplifies management and enhances the user experience.
• Manage and Govern All Identities, Applications, and Workloads: With a 360-degree view of the entire identity landscape, organizations can manage all identities across environments whether on-premises, or in multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures. Organizations can also consolidate application GRC capabilities and gain cross-application separation of duty (SoD) management throughout the enterprise. The Identity Cloud unifies administration by bringing together intelligence, reporting, and dashboarding. It enables an organization to understand the overall health of its identity programs with actionable reporting against key performance indicators including service health, configurations, and compliance. The platform also delivers reports aligned to regulations and frameworks that reduce manual efforts and increase audit success.
• Speed Deployment and Simplify Management: Instantly connect cloud platforms, enterprise applications, databases and directories, cloud storage, and more to accelerate implementation timelines with pre-built and out-of-the-box integrations via Saviynt Exchange. Its rapid onboarding capabilities, combined with hundreds of integrations developed by Saviynt and its partners, let organizations quickly add applications, significantly reducing the effort required to ingest usage and risk signals from critical enterprise applications. Organizations can Bring-Your-Own (BYO) capabilities for existing workflows, security keys, vaults, forms, and more to leverage previous investments and provide a consistent user experience.
• Reduce Costs and Technical Debt: Legacy systems are inherently more expensive to implement, manage and keep up to date. Legacy systems require multiple components built over the years by various vendors. This technical debt increases management costs through constant upgrades, patching, and developer costs due to its on-premises architecture and heavy customization needs. Saviynt’s SaaS and configuration-based architecture simplifies daily operations, empowering both administrators and end users through automation and a streamlined user experience. Eliminate unnecessary coding to increase your ROI and reduce total cost of ownership.

“The Identity Cloud is an original built-in-the-cloud identity solution that enables organizations to stay on top of the exploding number of digital identities across on-prem, cloud and multi-cloud application environments,” said Jeff Margolies, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Saviynt. “Innovation from legacy security providers is lacking. Organizations continue to face the same challenges each year due to complicated visibility and upgrades, as well as disjointed management. Our platform’s superior capabilities, with intelligence and AI at its core, eliminate human error by prioritizing decision-making access to sensitive applications.”

Saviynt was also named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for IGA with 91% of customers willing to recommend its platform. It is the only vendor to be recognized as a customer’s choice for three consecutive years in a row. It also received the highest number of customer reviews, the highest overall customer rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars, and the highest number of 5-star reviews when compared to other vendors.

Identiverse attendees can meet with Saviynt to view a demo of the platform May 28-31 at Booth #1606 inside the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. Or to learn more about why customers are leaving legacy solutions and choosing Saviynt’s Identity Cloud, please visit our blog.

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Identiverse 2024 – Credential security leader Dashlane today unveiled Dashlane Nudges, a new automated tool to empower admins to proactively create a more security-conscious workforce and drive better credential security behavior across their organization, reducing the risk of credential theft.

Compromised credentials continue to be at the heart of the majority of breaches. According to Dashlane data, the average employee has more than 70 passwords, of which many are used to access business applications not managed by the enterprise. Based on an analysis of millions of users, Dashlane found that 13 percent of passwords in the average user’s vault are compromised and 46 percent are reused, which puts all accounts at much higher risk, especially if a compromised password is reused across accounts.

Security awareness helps users make better security decisions and improve their security posture, but too often is relegated to a point in time, such as employee onboarding, or when required for compliance. Dashlane Nudges empowers admins to foster continuous security awareness by informing and training employees to take action with targeted and automated messages via integration with enterprise communications platforms such as Slack.

“Progress often happens incrementally in security. As awareness grows and users understand the critical role they play in securing the business, the overall security posture of the organization will benefit greatly,” said John Bennett, Chief Executive Officer of Dashlane. “Businesses can create a positive security culture by reinforcing that every employee is part of the security team, and making good credential hygiene easy by meeting users where they are already.”

Proactive security, with minimal effort

Dashlane Nudges immediately notifies users if Dashlane detects that a password in their vault has been compromised via dark web monitoring, and provides users actionable steps to change the password and remediate the risk. Admins can also configure settings to trigger a targeted message informing the user directly about the security threat.

“Every credential not properly managed and secured represents a point of risk, especially given the explosion of SaaS apps in the enterprise,” said Donald Hasson, Chief Product Officer at Dashlane. “Dashlane does the work for IT admins to help them proactively monitor and act once risks or threats are identified. And, the solution helps users improve their credential security by making it incredibly easy to create strong, unique passwords, and switch to passkeys when appropriate.”

Dashlane Nudges is the latest innovation from Dashlane that provides proactive protection with little IT admin involvement, with features such as user phishing alerts for both web and mobile devices.

Dashlane Nudges delivered via Slack is scheduled for private beta this summer. Additional messaging platform integrations will be added thereafter. Customers can join the beta program waitlist.

Making secure access more accessible at Identiverse 2024

Dashlane Nudges was introduced at Identiverse 2024 in Las Vegas, a leading tradeshow and conference for the identity community. Dashlane is an exhibitor and has featured talks on the future of identity, credential management and passkeys, which include:

• How Stanford Protects 50,000 Students, Faculty and Employees from Identity-Focused Threats, featuring John Bennett and Stanford University Information Security Officer Bhavya Gupta. The session is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29, 4pm – 4:25pm PT
• Navigating the Passkey Landscape: Early Adopter Insights, featuring Dashlane Director of Engineering & Innovation Rew Islam. The session is scheduled for Friday, May 31, 8:30am – 8:55am PT

Conference attendees can find Dashlane in the Pinyon Ballroom at booth #1601.

Additional resources:

• Blog: The Future of Credential Security Starts Here by John Bennett, CEO of Dashlane
• Blog: Dashlane at Identiverse 2024: Making Secure Access More Accessible

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Everfox announced today that it has released the newest version of its Trusted Thin Client Product, which includes enhanced security and speed and new native cloud capabilities. Trusted Thin Client is a premier access solution for Federal customers who must efficiently and securely access multiple networks simultaneously to perform their mission. Everfox continues to innovate and helps to ensure solutions meet the National Cross Domain Strategy Management Office (NCDSMO) Raise-The-Bar (RTB) requirements for their Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) resulting in deployable technologies that meet mission requirements while maintaining the highest level of security.

“Today our Trusted Thin Client product is among the widest deployed access solutions within the DoD, IC, and Civilian Federal Government, but we’re not stopping there. Every day we strive to innovate and provide solutions that support the unique and complex missions of those who protect and govern,” said Sean Berg, CEO, Everfox. “We are unwavering in our commitment to deliver solutions that meet Raise-the-Bar requirements and continue to expand our cross domain capabilities to protect data wherever it resides and aid in securing information access and sharing.”

With its recently announced partnership with Microsoft, Everfox now integrates its industry-leading cross domain solution technology into Azure’s cloud services offering for the U.S. Government, as well as having native capability for on-prem and hybrid cloud deployments. Through this partnership, Everfox and Microsoft are developing and deploying new cloud offerings for federal agencies that deliver on-demand multi-level cloud desktop services.

The Everfox Trusted Thin Client is a Raise-the-Bar compliant, NCDSMO-baselined solution that enables secure simultaneous access to multiple sensitive or classified networks from a single endpoint. Enabling the mission with improved and streamlined secure information sharing and access across separate, compartmented networks and clouds, Trusted Thin Client delivers the most robust combination of security, flexibility, usability and reduced total cost of ownership.

An independent Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize when deploying Everfox Cross Domain Solutions. The study analyzed the results of an intelligence unit within the Department of Defense (DoD) that deployed three Everfox cross domain security solutions: Everfox Trusted Thin Client, Everfox Trusted Gateway System, and Everfox Trusted Print Delivery. It was found that the customer demonstrated a 268% return on investment (ROI) over 5 years by significantly reducing hardware, software, infrastructure, and system administrator costs.

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Dr. Norman Poh, Chief Science Officer of the Company, commented, “This new patent application will represent Trust Stamp’s latest innovation in age estimation. The algorithm builds on the Bayesian framework to not only address the inherent uncertainty in predicting human’s age but also in ways that can reduce the effect of over and under estimation had raw age values been used. Moreover, the solution allows us to produce age category probabilities that can be easily tailored to different clients’ requirements and even to target demographics, thus making the age estimation much more reliable and targeted.”

Andrew Gowasack, President of the Company, commented, “With this new innovation, we fully expect our age estimation performance to outpace legacy products.  Calibration and categorization of the AI outputs will be an attractive process improvement for clients who are seeking a more accurate and customized solution for online age estimation.”

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