The telecommunications industry is rapidly moving away from the old paradigm of one user, one phone. The lines between telephony, VoIP and the Internet of Things are blurred. Customers now manage multiple devices from one account and one phone number Services such as T-Mobile Digits and V by Vodafone make it easy for customers to switch connected products Some of these services include not only vendors’ devices, but also customers’ computers and online services.
The rise of cloud services has made identity and access management (IAM) software a hot topic. As people use mobile devices so often to conduct business, it is becoming an important part of telecommunications services Mobile identity management, IAM accessed from a mobile device, is becoming a major buzzword.
IAM addresses two main issues –
The traditional form of computer authentication is a password, but it has its challenges. It’s not easy for people to create hard-to-guess passwords. If they are successful, they tend to forget it. Even having a device is not enough. Millions of mobile devices are stolen every year, so having a SIM card is not proof of identity Authenticating users reliably without overburdening the task is a difficult balance to achieve. Biometric authentication, such as eye scans and fingerprints, has become popular.
The GSMA has approved Mobile Connect, a cross-platform protocol, as a mobile authentication standard. Sites that work with it allow people to log in from their phones Not only do users not have to remember the password but the password is not sent This provides a higher level of secure access than password managers, which can sometimes be fooled.
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