Microsoft's answer to phishing: Two IDs
C|Net | at | by Mike
Banks are looking to bring down the number of phishing attacks by adopting two-factor authentication, which would require people to produce two forms of identification, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
The software giant's chief security strategist, Scott Charney, said that companies had failed to adopt the technology as fast as he would have liked.
"We haven't had as much adoption as you would hope for," Charney said at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen. "A lot of solutions for two-factor authentication are for enterprise spaces. If you get two-factor authentication to the consumer level, you reduce the phishing threat."