Biometrics vs. bots
Detecting bad bots from good ones has been very difficult, and this has led to a number of bot-generated cybersecurity attacks. NuData Security is using biometrics to be able to separate the good from the bad. “Because bots cannot replicate the nuanced variables in human behavior that are the hallmark of human/machine interaction, NuData’s biometric authentication can detect when a bad bot’s attempting a brute-force authentication in a specific transaction, or even when a bot army is seeking to take down entire sites,” Lisa Baergen, marketing director with NuData Security, explains. “From the pitch and angle of a handheld device to the length of gaps between typing and swiping, biometrics can identify valid users by their patterns, and immediately differentiate them from bad ones using a myriad of ingrained, highly individual behaviors that non-human attempts can’t reproduce.”