Equifax Releases Anakam 5.0: Makes Sure "Multifactor" Includes Voice Biometrics | Voice Biometrics News & Events

Roughly eight months after the formal acquisition of Anakam, Equifax announced general availability of Anakam Two Factor Authentication v5.0. The name is more than slightly misleading since the company is taking a single platform approach that expands on the use of SMS messaging, IVR, and voice biometrics for “customer, citizen, or patient-facing” NIST Level 3 compliant authentication.

Equifax holds an important patent around one of the factors: KBA (knowledge based authentication), or “something you know.” According to the press release, the other factor can be something you have, like a “hard” token, or something you, through the authentication of your voiceprint.

The solution can be implemented on a customer’s premises or in a cloud-based configuration and is designed to work with the most hardware and software infrastructures, including operating systems, databases, application servers, and Web servers. The company claims that the solution works with “all underlying identity management solutions” but calls out IBM Tivoli Identity Manager and Access Manager, CA SiteMinder and Identity Manager, and Oracle Sun Open SSO, specifically. Farther down the stack, Anakam claims to enable strong authentication of network security and VPN tools from Juniper, Cisco, and F5 as well as virtualization tools from Citrix.

via voicebiocon.com