The mobile authentication component in the Thales SafeSign product suite provides advanced authentication of users and transactions.
The mobile phone is the most pervasive communications technology in the world and has rapidly emerged as a lifestyle asset, transforming the way we work, communicate and interact.
Although mobile phones were never designed with mobile e-commerce in mind, SafeSign uses the latest technology and an innovative approach to offer banks a simple and yet reliable mobile authentication solution for all online banking, internet based payments and transactions. Passwords are delivered to the user’s handset that, when entered into an online application, authenticate both the user and the particular banking or payment transaction.
This solution is independent of mobile handset type, network technology and network provider, and addresses both the identity authentication and digital signing requirements of online banking and government applications.
There is a range of mobile phone based authentication mechanisms offered, ensuring that the most appropriate level of security is applied to transactions based on their assurance level requirements.
MCode SMS - a text based authentication mechanism introducing a “second channel” to single factor authentication.
MCode OTP - implementing the equivalent functionality of existing security tokens onto a mobile handset through the generation of One Time Passwords.
MCode CR - implementing the equivalent functionality of existing security tokens onto a mobile handset through the generation of a “response” derived from a submitted “challenge”.