The new role of behavioral biometrics in fraud prevention

Digital security is undergoing profound transformations catalyzed by the shortcomings of traditional authentication methods. Security strategies often force businesses to choose between robust defenses that frustrate users and seamless experiences that heighten vulnerability. Recently, behavioral biometrics -- using unique users’ digital interaction patterns -- has emerged to offer a compelling resolution to this longstanding challenge by providing continuous, invisible authentication based on unique human behaviors. Behavioral biometrics can best be understood as digital body language. Like physical mannerisms, such as walking gait or vocal tone, users exhibit distinctive digital behaviors in interacting with their devices -- from typing rhythms and… [Continue Reading]