Introduction to Swivel Secure

One of the fastest growing problems for the Internet community is the issue of user authentication and data security. Protecting personal and confidential information from unauthorized access and preventing fraudulent transactions using stolen digital identities are now the two greatest challenges for IT security specialists. These issues need to be addressed if the current $24bn annual losses from the e-economy are to be stemmed.

Significant technological advances have been made to frustrate hackers from simply breaking into enterprise systems but up until now little progress has been made in securing the weakest link in the network, the user authentication process and in particular, the vulnerability of the keyboard. When passwords and PINs are keyed in and sent over networks, they are vulnerable to capture in a variety of ways including: keyboard spyware, screen capture monitoring or direct observation (also known as "shoulder surfing").

The Swivel SAS PINsafe™ suite of authentication solutions has been designed specifically to defend systems against these threats as well as protecting the user ID during communication between the user’s PC and the authentication server.

Providing a simple to deploy, tokenless, low overhead solution Swivel Secured systems represent the next generation of authentication technology for B2B as well as mass market, consumer applications.

Key Features