PassMark Security

11 results about this entity

Period: 04 Feb 2005 - 06 Feb 2007

Study questions effectiveness of image authentication

A joint study by researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that site authentication images — where customers choose images that appear on a log-in page to prove the authenticity of the Web page — provide little protection to customers.

RSA acquires PassMark Security for $44.7 million

RSA Security has acquired privately-held authentication outfit PassMark Security for $44.7 million in a cash and stock deal.

Alliance & Leicester to roll out PassMark two-factor authentication system

UK banking group Alliance & Leicester is to use technology from California-based PassMark Security to provide a two-factor authentication service to its Internet banking customers.

Bank of America makes two factor authentication compulsory

Bank of America is making its SiteKey two factor authentication service a compulsory part of sign-in for its 14.5 million Internet banking customers.

Scottrade to introduce PassMark two-factor authentication

Online brokerage Scottrade is implementing two-way two-factor authentication technology from California-based PassMark Security in a bid to protect its customers from Internet fraud and ID theft.

PassMark acquires voice authentication firm Vocent

Californian online security start-up PassMark Security has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Vocent Solutions, a provider of voiceprint authentication technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Yodlee adds PassMark two-factor authentication to aggregation services

US account aggregation vendor Yodlee is adding two-way two-factor authentication technology from California-based PassMark to its personal financial services, such as online bill payment.

Bank of America to introduce PassMark authentication technology

Bank of America is using technology from California-based PassMark Security to provide a new two factor authentication service, called SiteKey, to its 13.2 million Internet banking customers in the US.

PassMark releases two-factor online authentication system in the UK

California-based PassMark Security has launched its online two-factor two-way authentication system in the UK.

PassMark Security raises $7.7m in series B financing

PassMark Security, a California-based provider of authentication technology, has secured $7.7 million in a series B funding round led by new investor Menlo Ventures.

Stanford Federal Credit Union signs for PassMark authentication system

Stanford Federal Credit Union (SFCU) has implemented PassMark Security's recently-released two-factor two-way authentication system to provide its members with secure online access to accounts and eliminate the threat from phishing.