In this WhatIs.com podcast, you’ll learn about this attempt to modernize existing banking practices in the context of new online threats like phishing. To learn more about FFIEC compliance, WhatIs.com’s Alex Howard interviewed Patrick Audley, the CTO of risk adaptive software provider Cogneto.

In this podcast, you will learn the answers to the following questions:

• How does implementation of FFIEC recommendations change the ways that customers use online banking?
• What’s the difference between single factor and multiple factor authentication? What is a factor in authentication?
• Under FFIEC guidance, is a fingerprint or iris scanner or voice recognition system sufficient authentication?
• How is dynamic reporting being used to decrease the incidence of fraud?
• What is real time risk analysis?
• Are there any penalties for non-compliance?
• Where are the majority of funds stolen in phishing attacks?

 

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 To start off the new year with a bang, WhatIs.com tackled the concept of cognitive biometrics, a fast growing new field used in authentication in the finance industry and beyond. To learn more about “cognometrics,” Associate Site Editor Alex Howard interviewed Patrick Audley, the CTO of risk adaptive software provider Cogneto.

In this podcast, you will learn the answers to the following questions:

• What are cognitive biometrics — and how are they different from more familiar biometrics like fingerprints or iris scans?
• What is the fast growing area of biometrics?
• What is a cognometric?
• What is risk adaptive authentication?
• What is a passthought?
• How are modern authentication methods in the digital realm similar to those used by the ancient Sumerians or Israeli security for El Al?

 

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This podcast discusses spear phishing, an email spoof used to target a specific organization and seek unauthorized access to confidential data. The source of the email appears to be from an individual within the recipient’s own company — generally someone in a position of authority.

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