Oyco.com Secures Its All-In-One Messaging Portal With Biometrics Solution

WebKnowHow
Monday, August 28, 2006; 09:17 AM

BioPassword, Inc., a software company providing secure authentication and anti-fraud solutions based on the behavioral biometric of keystroke dynamics, and Oyco, a comprehensive web communications toolkit, announced that Oyco is using BioPassword Internet Edition two-factor authentication solution to validate the identities of its customers by the rhythm of their typing.

"Whether we're helping hurricane Katrina victims or providing supplies to the Sudan, immediate communication is critical to our international aid operations; however, with passwords being stolen and laptops confiscated, secure communication is of utmost concern," said William Blaney, CEO of the Global Aid Network. "Oyco's communication tools along with BioPassword's authentication offer the perfect combination of convenience and security. Now, employees can log-on from any computer and know that their identity is protected."

As the only web-based application with seven different forms of communication including email, blog space, VOIP, video conference, instant messaging, text messaging and a personal website, Oyco enables its users to communicate from any computer that is connected to the Internet. To ensure its breadth of communication tools cannot become a vehicle for identity theft, Oyco researched the best authentication options. After evaluating other authentication technologies that required cumbersome tokens or remembering elaborate credentials, Oyco selected BioPassword as the most secure, cost-effective and easy-to-use solution.

"Security is of critical importance to our customers, but so is being able to quickly log-on and use our services," said Oyco CEO Paul Cross. "We selected BioPassword's unique approach because it was easy to integrate with our applications while providing the highest level of secure authentication over the Internet, without requiring our customers to change their log-on process. Customers simply type in their user name and password and we have the confidence that they truly are who they say there are."

As the only software-based, biometric solution deployable over the Internet, BioPassword Internet Edition monitors and enforces web-based application authentication to prevent fraudulent logins and transactions without requiring any hardware or change in user behavior. Using the biometric science of keystroke dynamics, BioPassword's two-factor authentication identifies a user by how they type their userID and password and secures web applications from social engineering attacks like phishing and pharming, keystroke logging, brute force attacks and simple password vulnerabilities.

"Oyco leads the industry bringing the next generation of Internet communication tools to consumers. Selecting Biopassword's two-factor authentication solution enables Oyco's vision of connecting consumers with trust and confidence," said BioPassword VP of security and product strategy Jared Pfost. "Easy to integrate and quickly deployable over the Internet, BioPassword Internet Edition is increasingly being adopted by web application, ecommerce and digital rights management companies that require strong authentication without impacting consumer behavior."