IDentiWall web is a multi level authentication service for
restricted web sites that require user authentication by User-ID and password during the login process.
Popular examples of such sites are those of internet banking,
securities trading, sales sites, government sites and many others.
The user who wishes to log onto their account, keys in the User-ID
and password and submits the page to the site’s IDentiWall, which is placed in front of the site, gets the login
request and sends back to the user an HTML window, that requests the user to enter a One Time Password (OTP)
which IDentiWall had previously sent directly to the user’s mobile phone via SMS.
The OTP that the user keys in the HTML form gets checked by
IDentiWall and if found compatible with the OTP that was sent to the user, IDentiWall passes the login request
to the web site for further processing.
Since IDentiWall functions as an html firewall, it can detect that
the user surfed to a protected page such as a funds transfer page, and if so, perform an extra secured
authentication before authorizing the transfer.
The IDentiWall service increases the security level of sensitive
transactions and fights the criminal tide of identity thieves who increase their activity on the net.
Attactive as it is, implementing IDentiWall does not require any
changes in the existing web site’s code. Furthermore, it does not require any software or hardware installation
on the user’s computer.
IDentiWall’s contribution to the overall security is better
appreciated if you understand that an unauthorized login attempt by a third party will send an SMS to the user's
cellphone. That means that the user is actually informed that a fraudulent attempt to log on to their account
is taking place. When this happens, the pro-active response option of IDentiWall kicks in and allows the user to
send back to IDentiWall an SMS that will result in IDentiWall’s quarantine of the user’s account from online
access.