November 13, 2024
Imagine logging into your accounts with just a look at your phone – but with far more security than a password could ever provide.
Authsignal and iProov have partnered to offer a high-security, easy-to-integrate solution that replaces cumbersome passwords with advanced facial biometrics and passkey binding.
Combining high-assurance facial biometrics with passkey binding strengthens authentication by linking users to passkeys through unique traits – enhancing authentication security and simplifying account recovery.
The Partnership: Combining Biometric Authentication and Advanced Fraud Orchestration
Authsignal is a powerful platform for passwordless authentication, multi-factor authentication (MFA), passkeys, and fraud prevention orchestration. With iProov’s industry-leading facial biometrics, Authsignal simplifies integration into any identity system, offering flexibility and visibility through a no-code rules engine. This allows organizations to deploy adaptive, risk-based authentication quickly and without specialized coding.
This partnership enhances onboarding and authentication processes across industries such as financial services, fintech, and e-commerce by integrating iProov’s industry-leading face verification technology into Authsignal’s orchestration platform.
What Does The Solution Look Like In Action?
Take, for example, a user accessing a financial account through a passkey. iProov’s biometric technology confirms the user’s identity in real time using facial verification, ensuring only authorized individuals gain access. If suspicious activity arises, Authsignal’s platform automatically adapts the risk management strategy, protecting the user journey without introducing friction.
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What is Biometrics Passkey-Binding?
Biometrics refers to using unique physical or behavioral traits – such as the face – to verify an individual’s identity. Unlike traditional passwords or PINs, biometrics offer a more secure, convenient way to authenticate users by confirming that the person accessing an account is who they claim to be.
Passkey binding adds another layer of security by linking a biometric identifier to a unique, cryptographic passkey. Because passkeys use public-private key cryptography, they’re resistant to phishing and credential theft. By binding biometrics to passkeys, only the intended individual can activate the passkey, offering both security and ease of use.
The unique cryptographic string behind a passkey secures your account and only works on the site/application it was created for. Each time you return, you can access your account quickly and easily with iProov face authentication – there’s nothing to remember and nothing to lose, unlike with a password.
This combination addresses key identity challenges. It assures that the user is genuine and authenticating in real-time by confirming both the ownership of the digital credential and the presence of a real human during each interaction. Together, biometric authentication and passkey binding offer robust security, making them ideal for high-assurance use cases like account recovery, reauthentication, and enrollment flows.
Binding biometrics with passkeys ensures only the intended individual activates the passkey, providing a secure and seamless user experience.
Why Use Biometric Passkey Binding?
Traditional authentication methods mistakenly place trust in an OTP that can be intercepted or a password that can be shared or stolen. Passkeys offer an advanced alternative to weaker authentication methods like SMS OTPs (One-time Passwords). Still, they weren’t designed to fully address identity challenges, like ensuring a real human is at the other end of the digital transaction, especially in isolation.
Authsignal and iProov’s integration closes this gap by ensuring the genuine presence of a real individual through biometric enrollment, creating high-assurance authentication and account recovery processes that protect against fraud and ensure ongoing security – reducing the risk of account takeovers and other fraudulent activity.
Even if you lose access to your account, you will be the only individual tied to it. This means users can quickly regain access through a simple facial scan when they are locked out of or lose/replace their trusted device.
Setting the Standard: FIDO Certification and Why It Matters
At the core of iProov and Authsignal’s partnership is a commitment to FIDO2 certification and standards. Authsignal proudly stands as a FIDO Alliance member, and iProov was the first vendor to achieve FIDO’s Face Verification Certification. Together, they set a high bar for passwordless authentication excellence.
FIDO standards are designed to replace vulnerable passwords with secure biometric or hardware-based credentials, helping to eliminate risks tied to traditional passwords. By following FIDO standards, Authsignal and iProov provide a reliable framework for security and user control in modern authentication.
FIDO certification underpins the trustworthiness of both Authsignal and iProov’s technologies, making this partnership a leading choice for enterprises seeking the most robust, user-centric approach to passwordless, secure authentication.
The Need For Advanced Biometric Face Verification
In today’s digital landscape, threats like digital injection and generative AI attacks (deepfakes) are growing more and more sophisticated. iProov stands at the forefront of biometric security – our solution suite ensures each person is genuinely present, real, and authenticating in real-time, protecting against these evolving threats.
iProov’s patented biometric technology is built to verify that the online user is indeed the right individual (not an impostor), a real person (not a spoof), and is authenticating in real-time using a passive challenge-response mechanism. This sophisticated verification process provides the critical assurance required to protect digital identities.
How? A process illuminates users’ faces with unpredictable color sequences during time-limited sessions. This approach – powered by deep-learning algorithms – goes beyond simple timestamp verification to provide true proof of presence. With proactive threat detection and response, iProov actively monitors new types of attacks, deploying server-side defenses through the cloud. This keeps users safe and enhances protection without affecting their experience.
To provide the best accessibility support, iProov is the first facial biometric vendor to comply with WCAG 2.2 standards – a significant advantage, as passwords are increasingly classified as “cognitive function tests” that hinder accessibility. iProov’s solution is inclusive, protecting digital identities without excluding users.
Together with Authsignal, iProov simplifies secure, scalable authentication, offering a versatile solution that fits every use case through a single integration.
Advantages of Using Authsignal and iProov’s Joint Solution
Authsignal and iProov combine their strengths to offer a seamless solution for passwordless login, multi-factor authentication (MFA), account recovery, and step-up authentication. This partnership is ideal for organizations seeking to enhance security without compromising user experience.
The two platforms complement each other, integrating Authsignal’s advanced fraud prevention orchestration and iProov’s biometric verification featuring best-in-class liveness detection for a robust, end-to-end solution.
Key advantages include:
- Regulatory Compliance: Secure onboarding and authentication align with regulatory standards such as KYC, AML, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), and GDPR, protecting customers from fraud while supporting compliance initiatives.
- Advanced Security: Authsignal’s adaptive authentication and risk-based rules engine, combined with iProov’s award-winning biometric security, significantly reduces fraud risks, including account takeovers, synthetic identities, and data breaches, safeguarding both users and reputations.
- Seamless Integration: Both solutions are cloud-based with lightweight SDKs, making integration simple across APIs, web, mobile, or SaaS platforms. Authsignal’s low/no-code tools and iProov’s flexible biometric suite ensure easy deployment into any identity stack.
- Improved Conversion Rates: iProov’s biometric verification boasts in-production success rates of over 98%, helping reduce friction during authentication and onboarding.
- Exceptional Customer Experience: Together, Authsignal and iProov deliver fast, frictionless authentication across any device or platform, enhancing user satisfaction and minimizing abandonment.
For more details, explore our integration listing, book a demo of iProov’s solution or get started with Authsignal’s platform today.
