Multi-Factor Authentication Systems are protected from attacks by Green Armor Solutions

Green Armor Solutions helps defend against cookie hijacking, man-in-the-middle, and other attacks without compromising ease of use.

Today Green Armor Solutions announced that its Identity Cues authentication platform offers multiple defenses against advanced online fraud techniques employed by criminals such as cookie hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks without compromising user convenience.

Over the past few years criminals have greatly improved the techniques by which they trick unsuspecting people into divulging their usernames, passwords, and other personal information, thereby facilitating crimes such as financial fraud, identity theft and corporate espionage. Lately, techniques such as man-in-the-middle attacks – in which criminals set up phishing sites that receive information from unsuspecting users and then send the information to genuine banks or other businesses being impersonated in real time – and cookie hijacking – in which criminals inappropriately access cookies that are used by some websites as a sole “second factor” of identifying users – have successfully breached firms employing multi-factor authentication.

The importance of the proactive defenses and advanced technology offered by Green Armor Solutions continues to grow, as criminals’ techniques improve and advanced attempts at committing online fraud continue to proliferate. At the same time, Green Armor’s unique technology allows organizations to deploy both site and multi-factor authentication in a fashion that does not require users to enroll, to install any software, to carry any extra security devices, to memorize any new information, or to perform extra steps during login. Green Armor’s system has consistently proven to be both more secure and more user-friendly than competing products.

Furthermore, Green Armor’s technology can secure access to systems from both computers and mobile devices and smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry devices, Motorola’s Q phone, Palm’s Treo series, and other handheld computers.