If after you have come out of the sprawling exhibition centre of the famous Earl’s Court in London, you heaved a sigh of relief and concluded that Infosecurity Europe is simply a celebration of innovations and a gathering of the best of the best in the info world, we‘d be mad to begrudge you arriving at such a conclusion, for this in our reckoning is what the exhibition is all about.
SolidPass was among the array of IT companies that the exhibition paraded and its CEO Mr Selahaddin Karatas too thinks it is long overdue to hold a requiem mass for passwords, tokens and PINs.
Amongst many other reasons, Karatas adduced against hardware token include the fact that it is difficult to manage and deploy; costly to physically distribute; heavy to carry by users, especially those with multiples tokens; it has to be replaced he said when batteries are dead and the fact that it can easily be lost or damaged.
Karatas is pushing solidPass into the market because he says: “It protects from phishing, pharming, man-in-the middle attacks and other types of fraud by providing a variety of authentication methods.”
According to karatas by eliminating the need for hardware tokens, SolidPass he says guarantees the highest levels of security at a fraction of the cost and without the trouble of traditional two-factor authentication tokens.
Karatas said: “SolidPass has bridged the traditional trade-off between usability and stronger security by making challenge-response and transaction data signing simple to use by incorporating advancements such as barcode scanning.”