Steven Hope CEO Winfrasoft

Winfrasoft, will be demonstrating at Infosecurity Europe 2014 in London, how pattern-based authentication improves security and the customer experience, by removing the need for passwords and other outdated identification methods. Visitors will learn how the award-winning PINgrid makes the entire process simple memorable and secure. The company will also be participating in the education programme, presenting the seminar ‘Why we need to put secrecy back into security: The reinvention of Authentication’.

PINgrid uses numbergrid-based patterns rather than passwords or clunky keyring tokens, to provide 1.5, two and even three factor authentication and transaction verification for applications such as: Internet banking, e-commerce sites, corporate network access, mobile apps and door access systems. The solution utilisies 256bit FIPS compliant cryptograpgic algorthims and is underpinned by OATH logic. It can be implemented standalone, or easily integrated within exisiting apps and websites using the PINgrid SDK.

When the customer needs to authenticate themselves they look at a challenge grid presented to them on screen that is populated with seemingly random numbers from 0 to 5. They simply type the digits that fall within their memorable pattern to create a One Time Code. CEO of Winfrasoft, Steven Hope comments: “The problem with traditional forms of authentication is that they ask you to keep a secret and then you give it away every time you login. By removing the need to divulge your password PINgrid puts the secrecy back in to security and with 2.1 billion possible pattern combinations in a standard 6x6 grid and 68.7 billion in an 8x8 grid there is no chance of someone guessing a pattern correctly.”

Winfrasoft will also be presenting in the Business Strategy Theatre on Tuesday 29^th April, between 10.40 and 11.05 in a presentation entitled: ‘Why we need to put secrecy back into security: The reinvention of Authentication’.

Hope comments: “More and more layers of complexity are being added to the authentication process, and rather than making our environments more secure it is having the opposite effect. Utopia is authentication that is simple, memorable and secure, but existing methods of identification used by the majority of organisations, all lack at least one of these vital components. At Infosecurity Europe 2014 we will demonstrate how authentication is being reinvented using the latest advances in pattern and image recognition.” 

Infosecurity Europe 2014 takes place from 29^th April till 1^st May at Earls Court in London.

Founded in 2005, Winfrasoft is an award-winning specialist in multi-factor authentication and enterprise-ready infrastructure security solutions. With offices in the UK and South Africa, the independent software vendor services a global client-base across 27 countries including government departments, multi-national financial, petro-chemical, telecoms and media institutions with an end-user base extending into the millions. The company is also a bespoke solution supplier to the NHS in the UK

The company is a pioneer in developing and deploying innovative authentication solutions, introducing the ground-breaking concept of one-and-a-half factor sign-on, as well as taking advantage of the latest smartphone technology to replace costly hard-tokens with highly secure and reliable soft-tokens.

The Winfrasoft PINauth product suite consists of PINgrid, PINphrase and PINpass which deliver strong and affordable two-factor, one-and-a-half factor, soft-token and token-less, one time code, authentication capabilities for heightened security. It provides the IT department with ease of administration without the associated costs of purchasing and managing a traditional hard-token based system.

The company is a Microsoft Certified partner in Security & Identity and embedded systems, as well as a contributing member of OATH.