How Visa looks to help consumers bypass the insecure login and password combination by advancing biometric intelligence was at the center of a presentation CU InfoSecurity 2017 conference in San Diego.

With the arrival of mobile phones with fingerprint sensors and high-quality cameras a new biometric authentication phase opened to consumers. Yet many users often revert to their insecure login/password combo when the biometric sensors fail.

Joseph Pham, senior director, risk and authentication for Visa explained how deploying advanced biometric technologies so that one option fails, user can simply switch to another convenient biometric option, can solve that problem. He also showed you how various authentication methods can work across multiple devices.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).