How Swipes, Taps, And More Can Protect Your IT Clients Against Online Fraudsters

By Jonathan Buckley, Senior VP of Marketing, at Qubole

Do you know that every two seconds someone’s identity is stolen? There are several ways to combat this such as getting creative and random with passwords and PIN numbers, refusing to provide personal information over the phone, shredding receipts and bank statements, and keeping a close eye on credit card statements. But as this modern age of technology improves exponentially, so do the security measures. Now you and your IT clients can protect your information with more than clever passwords and secret questions. Iris scans, facial recognition, and fingerprint scanners are rapidly shifting from science fiction to reality. Your identity can even be authenticated by your heartbeat, retinas, voice patterns, hand measurements, and, if you so choose, by the way you interact with the Internet.

Just like your fingerprints, the way you swipe and tap your finger or stylus across your tablet is unique. When studied and profiled by BioCatch and other authentication companies, the ways in which you manipulate the cursor on your laptop screen with your mouse or touchpad can identify you just like the picture on your driver’s license. Using special Big Data analysis tools like Apache Spark makes all of this possible. When the Internet can recognize who you are by your swipes and taps, by default that means that it can also recognize when your username, your laptop, your IP address, etc. is being used by someone other than you. Even if a cybercriminal manages to hijack your username, your password, or even the thumb print Touch ID on your iPhone, he will still not be able to pose as you online.

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